Reply #22: You really think the PJM interchange can't handle the load of a single small coal plant. [View All]

The elimination of that single plant wouldn't contribute materially to the power already flowing from the North of course that assumes THERE WAS NO OTHER SPARE CAPACITY IN THE DISTRIBUTION AREA.

Obviously the State of Delaware didn't see a concern with shutting down the plant from either a cost or stability standpoint. They even stated so. Were they lying?

Think about it for a second. This plant has a relatively low capacity factor which means it routinely goes offline. Where do you think the electricity comes from when the plant goes offline? Magic? Unicorns? Dump Trucks?

The peak capacity of the plant was only 760MW. 2 of the boilers were already going offline no matter what which leaves only 380MW peak remaining. Of those DE wanted to shut one down and retrofit the other so that means at most one would be operating at one time. A mere 190MW at peak.

You really think 190MW can't be handled by the interchange.
You really think there wasn't a combination of spare production and/or available transmission capacity to handle this relatively small plant going offline?

I mean our grid needs upgrades but it isn't that bad.

Really? That is your rebuttal? :rofl: Lame. Even for you.

Of course nice attempt to deflect from the fact that every single thing you claimed was a lie.