waldoch.bsky.social
Founder @ http://gridstatus.io/
Energy and other stuff. Some coding, some reading. Graphs and maps, birds and sports
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he's living the dream
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Long Island can get super constrained. Gas stops early, 69kV network, some old-ass plants, old issues with scheduling in general too. There was a fun time 4 years ago when the two incoming 345kV lines (Y49 and Y50) were out at the same time for over a month (highlighted)
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yeah the mid-atlantic peak has been shifted right a bit of the forecasts each day and just generally been very strong
the forecasts from a few days ago seemed clearly too low given these temps and load growth in the region
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LMPs at that one location were over $9000/MWh for one interval, but they've been above $2000/MWh since ~2:40 PM Eastern
I think that node was likely the highest-priced, but haven't 100% checked, in-city they were $2k-$3k
www.gridstatus.io/map?zoom=8.4...
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previous final records (doesn't include recent winter record)
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forecast has gone up and up
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Could try this feed to get a more specific one you can watch
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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That’s a pretty cool design. Less than $10 a volume seems pretty good I think?
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and here it is blog.gridstatus.io/ercot-4cp-20...
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full blog coming later today btw
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the grid is going to be *stressed*
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losing them destabilizes things *and* they also (crypto in particular) will just turn off almost instantly on their own to avoid coincident peaks or similar, which triggers operational responses as well
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2021 😭
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haha yeah hockey makes more sense given the region, but I don't know that the NHL is nearly as flexible as the NBA in terms of picks and trades
also, there is NBA in Ontario :P
the seasonal swap makes sense, but this specific "future summer" thing was what interested me
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this is beside the point, but that doesn't even look like the same guy from the twitter avi lol
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people get twisted over boycotts or whatever, but so rarely do we have such a clean example where the person who owns and decides how a corp runs does is so open, completely in charge, and obviously despicable if you have any morality around deciding to kill the most vulnerable people in the world
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which can interact with adblocking to create a spiral of garbage where a single site will sit there unusable consuming escalating amounts of RAM until you kill it
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haven't spent enough time in the EIA fuel codes dictionary
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I don't think this was part of it, but the BoD also recently approved a 2024 billing overage, I believe after they verified none of the billed hours were spent on the transmission planning commentary that made people angry last year
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since the presentation/report cycle is known ahead of time, stuff that happens on the edge of or between cycles is really annoying
a few times we'd have some quick discussion in an annual report that was for the previous year covering something in the current year and it was a hassle to work it in
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thought that was a bit odd given the snark on a slide like this, but also this is pretty quick turnaround from event to presentation, most of the slides would have been pretty ready to go before the may 25th load shed and then there's an "oh fuck, we gotta work that in" moment
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less prominently, there was also a smaller load shed event in April on an SPP-MISO seam down south as well
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great osprey shot
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can totally back into similar numbers, but this just isn't ELCC (whose definitions have converged over the past 5 years, but still has variability in implementation across markets)
it's odd to use a different and specific term when the plain text actual definition is right there on the page snippet
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uhh that's the solar capacity factor at the daily net load peak, nothing on there talks about ELCC?
the point there is that solar growth has shifted the daily net load peak much later as it has grown, outside of the solar generating range, which is the obvious/logical endpoint of adding more solar
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now you see any asshole who is happy to pay Musk before anyone else, and half of them are just "grok is this true"
the actual experience of interacting with other people has been so degraded, it's kind of crazy
checking the arc of some still there you can kinda see their brain rotting in real time
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As the crew who installed it pulled away, a BMW SUV rounded the corner, sped up to idk, 40 or so (speed limit is 25), and got rocked 🥰
This is the third set of traffic calming/altering work since we’ve lived here, the quickest/easiest install, and I suspect will have the biggest impact #arlington