Xiao Wang
Principal Engineer Semiconductor Industry and now a DER/Grid Edge worker as well! Opinions own
- VPPAs like this should be greatly discouraged by matching and deliverability requirements. Buy energy that you can plausibly use please!
- Maybe this is why I found the rhetoric around self run coal so distasteful. If investors are building wind on this kind of thinking by all means local utilities run plants based on their all-in RA needs and ignore the criticisms that they are propping up the plants.
- Cause the City of Cambridge isn't gonna pay a cent to getting your resource adequacy and local transmission situation back up to par if the plants close.
- Impressive we've burned through about 40 million gallons of fuel oil in ISO-NE the last ten days or so..this represents about 1600GWh of fuel energy or about 600GWh or so of electrical energy. Or about 7.62 million Hyundai ioniq long range. Cost of the fuel: $140m @$3.50 Ioniq cost: $342b
