yadkin

"Duke Energy Carolinas hit its all-time peak for the winter season in the hour that ______ended____ at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning."

And 7 am and 7:30 am are bright Sunlight too, right?

http://news.investors.com/i...s-jobs.htm

That was for one night. Also 8am is daylight.

"I am smart enough to know that the biggest demand for electricity is during the day."

Really?

http://www.bizjournals.com/...-cold.html

"Duke Energy Carolinas hit its all-time peak for the winter season in the hour that ended at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning."

I am far from being a liberal or a harvard boy. I am smart enough to know that the biggest demand for electricity is during the day.

One reason these investors are building all these solar farms is a guaranteed rate for each kilowatt they sell.

You right Oogie. All those Harvard educated liberals can't see that. They think Solar will totally do away with coal.

"And the solar generation is ZERO on dark nights. Conventional power plants carry the load at night."

For those who rode to school on the short bus, this also means that solar does not reduce the number or size of conventional power plants.

I'm not saying solar won't work. It's just that these people are in such a rush to push this over on us that they don't think.That's just like solar heat collectors on your home. When you come out with a new technology it's usually expensive. I think they believed that people would just jump right on the bandwagon. The way the economy is people can't afford to buy oil or pay their power bills much less pay for the switch-over. They are not down here where the rubber hits the road.

And the solar generation is ZERO on dark nights. Conventional power plants carry the load at night.

Speaking of solar power generation. Companies and investors are buying huge chunks of land and are actively building solar farms all across the state except the mountains. It would blow your mind the amount of the deals.

Oogie, Don't worry. The power shortages will be offset by all those big solar energy plants that Obama plans to build with all the stimulas money we gave him . Things will level out in a couple of years according to his thinking. What do you expect from someone that lives in a house that when the power goes out big emergency generators kick on so he stays warm and can see. He's so far away from the reality of things that his thinking borders on delusional. U-dogs post makes sense. The only problem is your dealing with someone with no common sense. He's probably never had to go without power.

You dont close power generation until you have the power to replace it. Simple common sense .

I believe that the drive to reduce hydrocarbon emissions but closing coal fired power plants started well before the current administration was in office. I recall attending a meeting a number of years ago at which Senator Burr was pushing for expanded green energy use and less dependence on coal and oil.

As much as Duke deserves lots of criticism for shoddy business practices, the closing of several of the Duke generating plants was forced by the EPA. The EPA administrator has her nose so far up the you-know-what of the Golfer-In-Chief that when he vents flatulence, her ears flap. She dances to his tune.
If your power goes out tonight, it may well be the fault of the fellow who claims to be from Hawaii.

http://myfox8.com/2015/01/0...-24-hours/