Meeting expected ‘peak power’ wintertime demands will require 2.2 billion watts of new generation capacity in New England, the region’s grid operator said.
NE states’ carbon reduction will require equivalent of four new VT Yankee plants
Electricity grid expert: Vermont not so different from Texas
Everyone should winterize their electrical power grids. But each grid will encounter winter conditions that are extreme compared to the usual winters. For that, what you need is a robust grid with (for example) some nuclear plants with fuel stored on site, so the problems of winter do not become grid-wide catastrophes. Just-in-time renewables plus Just-in-Time natural gas is a recipe for the kind of disaster Texas had, and the kind that is embedded in many of ISO-NE’s future scenarios.
