Power System
topic on 2 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
4 statements about Power System, every show
Lubershain: Flat power grid load growth suppressed DER adoption for 15-20 years
“The past 1520 years in the power system, we just haven't seen, till very recently, much load growth. So there just weren't that many places on the grid where there was tremendous amount of pressure to upgrade things quickly. It wasn't all that expensive to mak…”
Norris: Crypto mining operations can drop power to zero within minutes
“The computational loads that are most flexible are, you know, the crypto mining operations. And they're now, you know, some of the most flexible loads On the entire power system, and they can go from, you know, like max draw to zero and, you know, one minute o…”
Faruqi: Dynamic electricity pricing operates like Uber surge pricing during critical grid shortages
“Dynamic pricing says, well, but on a hundred to 200 hours of the year, the system, the power system has a critical condition. There might be outages because there's a shortage of supply, and therefore in those few hours, 100 to 200 hours, we have to have even …”