The Winds of Change | Delivering for Customers with GE Vernova’s 3 MW Wind Turbine

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I'm proud to be a part.of the Pensacola Florida team!!!

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The pensacola plant was built by Westinghouse in the late 60's. NOT 100+ YEARS AGO🙄

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[@douglasengle2704]

There is an incredible high level of engineering going into advancing wind turbine generators. It's not the percentage of wild AC the public power grid is having to support from wind turbine and solar voltaic generated electricity that is substantially important, but its fuel savings, which is little to non. In the US the advertised fuel savings for supporting the wild AC from wind turbine and solar voltaic generated electricity by the electric utility grid is 1% each. That number is likely rounded up significantly. The wild AC from wind turbine and solar voltaic electrical generation should not be supported by the public power grid. The practical use for wind turbine and solar voltaic generated electricity is for maintaining electrical energy storage such as charging storage batteries or working with something similar such as hydropower. The electrical storage can supply the power grid or run pumped hydro for stockpiling water for hydropower at about 50% efficiency. Instant 100% backup of wild AC typically requires natural gas turbine generators running at high availability consuming a minimum 70% of the fuel of full output, but making little electricity, where in a few seconds they can be at 100% output to instantly backup the wind farm 100%. Making up the dips in wild AC will cause more than 70% of full output fuel consumption. It would use 66-2/3% of the natural gas of 100% back up of natural gas turbine generators to run a natural gas combined cycle plant at high efficiency output where it can make full use of a steam cycle adding 50% higher efficiency making all the electricity than to 100% instantly back up a wind generator farm for the same electrical output to behave as a scheduled power station. The cheapest incremental electricity is from hydropower and nuclear power. Second to those in the US would be a new ultra supercritical clean coal plant burning high BTU bituminous coal at a predicted crossover fueling cost with natural gas priced at $0.80 per million BTUs in 2022. US natural gas was priced at an offseason wholesale price in early summer 2024 of $2.50 per million BTUs, three times the fueling cost of the coal plant. This is the cheapest natural gas that could be expected without economic collapse. Winter peak natural gas wholesale prices can be several times higher. The US has some of the lowest cost natural gas in the world. UK wholesale natural gas was priced in US equivalence Oct. 2024 at $10.50 per million BTUs. It is not accurate to state residential electricity cost is greatly the cost of maintaining the power grid as sometimes said. In the US on average only 38% of the generated electricity reaches the residential electric power meter. 62% of the generated electricity on average is lost to grid resistance. A little less than $0.03 per kWh is average for US midwestern wholesale electricity scheduled 24 hours in advance. That costs $0.03/.38 = $0.078 at the residential meter. Our Cumberland, Indiana residential electricity in 2020 was priced at $0.10 per kWh. The cost verses sale price difference has to maintain the power grid and make some profit. Internally generated electricity should be significantly cheaper