Michael Giberson
Matthew Wald at the New York Times Green blog reports on the Bonneville Power Administration’s problem of having too much water and wind power at the same time. For about 5 days in early June, storms producing wind and rainwater led to a lot of wind power and too much water in the reservoirs. As much power as possible was sold to other areas, fossil-fueled generators were cut to essentially zero and even the area nuclear power plants, normally operating at near 100 percent of capacity, were asked to cut back to 22 percent.