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OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm 1-Sep-2009 At 8:49:45 AM lacto

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>When electricity is generated at night and not even used, it is still
>counted towards so called "green power" the next day or week, depending
>on how much was made and REC's generated. Therefor the consumer is not
>purchasing green power, but is being conned by a system that is set up
>to earn renewble operators money, but not have any effect on coal generation.
>The only way we will stop coal is to use reliable baseload power that
>can directly replace it.
>Wind is basically a paper shufflers delight, make some power one day,
>sell it a week later, even though it no longer exists.
>By the way power consumption was expected to increase, but it has actually
>fallen due to the current economic climate, yes you would expect it to
>increase in the future though. I wonder will it be reliable though?

wind power generated at night isn't used ??? yesterday minimum power use was around 18000 Mw and expected to peak at 28000 MW for the eastern seaboard . so I presume you think that wind capacity exceeds 18000 Mw. Power is arranged to be delivered by various generators and it is easy to allocate expected output from wind farms as it is to allocate to coal ,hydro and gas fired power plants . Probably the major drop in power consumption has been as slow down in the refineries due to lower metal prices and demand,domestic demand is growing though it is being reduced by smarter use and energy saving measures . personally with my power usage I use 60% of my off peak power use as peak power . With solar hot water heating ,pv power with feedback , together with poorer seasonally conditions and prices my peak usage has dropped to 25 % of my off peak use