I live near a huge windfarm, but my electric company doesn’t offer wind power.
How is that windfarm plugged into the grid? Is the electricity market just shares and not about the actual electricity produced and I’m technically using the wind power? Or does the windfarm physically “plug in” somewhere very distant to me? Since the wind is pretty continuously producing electricity will I never be picked to be in a rolling blackout? How do you even have those energy saving planned partial grid blackouts when there’s windpower?
I feel like this post really embodies how a five yr old would ask questions. Any response to any piece of my questions is welcomed! Thank you
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All the power that’s generated goes into the grid. Once it’s there it’s all fungible, you can’t really say I’m getting wind power or I’m getting coal power. The whole grid all the producers and consumers are synced up together at 60hz and there is a dynamic price of electricity and a dynamic generation composition. Here is the grid operator for the Midwest they connect all the way from Lousiana to Canada, wind is like 25% right now as of typing this, and the marginal price of power is insanely cheap, something like 2 cents per kwh, by the time you click the link it might be different. https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-and-operations/real-time–market-data/operations-displays/
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