Comments on: Balancing swings in power from wind farms on the Bonneville Power Administration grid http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/07/28/balancing-swings-in-power-from-wind-farms-on-the-bonneville-power-administration-grid/ Commentary on Economics, Information and Human Action Mon, 21 May 2012 15:20:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michael Giberson http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/07/28/balancing-swings-in-power-from-wind-farms-on-the-bonneville-power-administration-grid/#comment-8940 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:03:58 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5096#comment-8940 Well, instead of talking about the ties to H****** University, we could emphasis W****** H****’s PhD came from the University of California, Los Angeles (and a BA from the USAF Academy in Colorado!). So really, these market coordination ideas can be pinned on the Western United States, right?

Practically as home grown as a Washington State apple.

]]> By: D.O.U.G. http://knowledgeproblem.com/2009/07/28/balancing-swings-in-power-from-wind-farms-on-the-bonneville-power-administration-grid/#comment-8938 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:26:10 +0000 http://knowledgeproblem.com/?p=5096#comment-8938 Aw, c’mon, Mike. You know the PNW is “too different” for market pricing. You know they have tons of hydro that they have to run certain ways for non-power reasons. They have long transmission lines, with generation located a long way from the load. Why, the whole Western Interconnect has more in common with Argentina than it does with the Eastern Interconnect or Texas. Oh, wait… Argentina began an independently-operated energy balancing market with locational marginal pricing in… late 1992! [Argentina's large hydro plants have to run for non-power reasons as well.] It must not count because it’s in Spanish. Anyway, that market pricing you’re talking about has rumored ties to Harvard, which can’t be allowed to eventually win the battle in the PNW like it did in California.

Sarcasm: Don’t leave home without it. ;)

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