Walt BaldwinLG&E and TVA will discuss the impacts of the December '22 weather event on their systems tomorrow at 1 PM ET.
rep. gooch kicks the meeting off by implying that the lgee rolling blackouts and increasing costs of energy in ky are due to federal policy & renewables, and, by association, implies the same causes behind past grid issues in texas.
boardwalk pipeline representative testifies after gooch's introduction. there was a control valve with icing that affected their ability to maintain pressure to lgee generation plants.
live stream is pretty much unwatchable, freezing every few seconds. how ironic. hope the recording is more stable.
sen. smith seems to think the solution to the issue with gas delivery in cold temps is more gas. ...and i'm sure more coal but he hasn't gone that far yet.
tva representative attributes dramatic increase in demand to heat pumps responding to rapid temperature drop. the sudden shift to aux heat surpased their 25% planning reserves.
rep. suzanne miles, "we are not ready to transition to other energy sources that are being forced by the federal government"
tva rep steps up as solid supporter for nuclear for future energy supply.
all of the testimony has identified causes of rolling blackouts as failure of gas delivery & magnitude of weather event.
blanton, johnson, and smith still place the blame for reliability issues during storm squarely on renewables and federal cap & trade policy,
Lonnie Bellar, LGE COO says they were "aggressively ready for the storm" but "the pressure wasn't there" so they lost 900mw of generation and shed 317mw of load.
The agenda says they are discussing "planned electric outages" aka rolling blackouts.
https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/CommitteeDocuments/258/24158/Feb%202%202023%20Senate%20Agenda.pdf