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BayFly · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:35 pm Post subject: Windmills

I'm fishing, but not for fish! I'm fishing for the reason the windmills North of Corpus Christi are never turning, especially on days they obviously should be. Just this evening I've read where Texans are being asked to conserve on our use of electricity, due the the extreme heat we are experiencing, all the while these giant windmills are sitting idle. Anyone have knowledge why?

The windmills I'm referencing are the ones I observe on the left or North, as I approach Corpus Christi on Hwy 37 from San Antonio. It may be more than one development, but they appear to be in one grouping.

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:18 pm Post subject:

Doesn't matter. ALL of the local wind energy produced locally, which there is an abundance of, isn't distributed in our local grid.

Don't believe me? Next time you are at HEB or the Wal-A-Marts, and are asked about 'your local electrical provider' by one of the Greenies, ask them if they can guarantee that the power making it to my local service line is from a wind mill, within 100 miles from here.

Sorry, a sore subject with me......

TailStalker · Horse Mullet Joined: 11 May 2014 Posts: 130

Are you talking about the ones out along/around 359 headed towards Skidmore? That project is still ongoing, that actual wind farm is not online yet. If its the Gregory/Taft ones, those have always been going from what I have seen personally.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 9:19 pm Post subject:

the only sore subject was when Boone Pickens was lobbying for Us to pay for high-tension transmission lines to get His windfarm power from Amarillo to Dallas. ...and pandering to environmentally conscious voters in TV ads.
The transmission lines he wanted us to buy, in statewide utility cost-sharing, cost more much more than his windfarm, and all the profits would be his.
Subsidize the wealthy.

SandJKENNELS · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 9:21 am Post subject:

BayFly · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 11:01 am Post subject:

Halffast · Finger Mullet Joined: 20 Oct 2011 Posts: 46

I read on the internet (so it must be true) that a windmill will never produce enough electricity to offset the cost of building and maintaining it. Does anyone know if that is correct or not?

Thanks,

David

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 3:45 pm Post subject:

same article that ends with this?

BayFly · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:15 pm Post subject:

I guess we will learn the truth long after we are gone. If there were not economics involved possibly we could learn the truth today, but so much for that! Confused

Donnie · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 4:40 pm Post subject:

Bulldog, how many square feet do you have air conditioned for that $150 ? And who is CPS ?
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:14 pm Post subject:

Donnie, that's City Public Service, SA - I have a couple of flown daughters' rooms closed off, which really helps (SE and SW corners of the house, and the garage is on the N end of the house),
so I'm heating/cooling about 2100 sq ft, but temperate weather into June, my electric was $85.

Donnie · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:21 pm Post subject:

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 7:32 pm Post subject:

even with all rooms open, athletic girls and dogs running in and out, height of heat and depth of winter, never had an electric bill over $200.
But I have friends in Corpus, and know there's a big difference in base rate here and there.
I also lived in Austin when they protested themselves out of STNP, and CPS quietly bought their shares.

I also adjust my thermostat around the sun load. Always go to bed and get up cool, at noon let it warm up a degree, again about 4p, and take those two cool degrees back after sunset. The logic is so the a/c compressor gets regular rests.

Donnie · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:35 pm Post subject:

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:48 pm Post subject:

I don't have the number handy, but there's a 10% difference in average rates between SA and CC, and Corpus electricity is considered cheap in national ratings.
Found it online - CPS base rate/kw-h is 6.9 cents and adjusted rate (fuel charges, peak charges) is 11 cents.
Month-to-month, even day to day, hour to hour, it's going to vary based on performance of their production elements, overall demand, and your personal use.

I edited to post this above, but it fits better here:
I adjust my a/c thermostat around the sun load. Always go to bed and get up cool, at noon let it warm up a degree, again about 4p, and take those two cool degrees back after sunset, an hour apart. The logic is so the a/c compressor gets regular rests. Since adjusting the thermostat that way, I haven't failed a compressor start-up capacitor (knock on wood). But I'm also warming up a degree when the rest of the city is on peak load.
When I think about it, open my garage first thing in the morning to let it cool off - safe to do that where I live - all I'm risking is a feral cat intrusion.