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North Central Illinois | New natural gas generating stations and ones converted from coal to natural gas have raised the consumption of NG for electricity significantly. Couple that with the fact that we keep decommissioning nuclear power plants and it adds up. I don't know what percentage of lost nuclear and coal generated capacity has been made up by NG, wind, and solar but on demand capacity for extremely high demand situations has to have been curtailed I would think. The decommissioning of nuclear power plants is more concerning to me than anything when you look at the amount of electricity we have derived from them in the past 50 years. While nuclear energy has it's own pitfalls those plants just kind of sit there day after day doing their thing and people don't think too much about it. Until they come up with better ways to bank power from solar and wind they will never have the backup capacity of coal, NG, and nuclear energy. | |
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How bout those Texas windmills?
