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Oregon: The Boardman Coal Plant Closed. Now What?

Monday, 16 November 2020, 17:45 MJA Uncategorized 39

Oregon Catalyst: On Thursday, October 15, Portland General Electric pulled the plug on the Boardman Coal Plant, PGE’s largest power plant. Boardman had a nameplate capacity of 550 firm megawatts of power and was decommissioned 20 years prematurely.

While environmentalists celebrate the plant’s closure, utility executives are still trying to figure out how they will keep the lights on in our region.

That’s because the more coal plants our region removes from the grid, the more likely we are to experience future blackouts. Multiple studies from groups like the Northwest Power Pool, E3, and the Northwest Power and Conservation Council all reached the same conclusion: Our region will have a shortage of power by the mid-2020s that could lead to blackouts and extreme price volatility. read more

39 Comments on Oregon: The Boardman Coal Plant Closed. Now What?

  2. Speak for yourself! I’m not far from Boardman and I mind it very much! Boardman is in the Red part of the state, for those unfamiliar with this area. Nice of the city folks to, once again, dictate how we’re to live.

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  4. The Goddamned idiots are trying to attract server farms that use massive amounts of electric power to locate in Oregon while simultaneously closing down electric power production.

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  9. Add to the big shortage, Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in California is also shutting down. This will add to the power grid gridlock. All the computers and electronic devices that are plugged in 24/7, there’s going to be pain for everyone. It was good while it lasted.

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  10. So……more electricity demand from our Navajo owned coal fired power plant.

    Cool by me. Anything to keep those surly bastards off the streets and gainfully employed.

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  14. The enviros did the same thing to 2 recently retrofitted coal plants in CO(this was about 10 years ago). Cost 100s of millions to make these plants for all intents and purposes, pollution free. Not good enough for them.

    It’s not cheap melting glass electrically. When I moved to TX from CO, my energy cost dropped well over half, almost 2/3.

    Moving that decimal point a couple places to the right costs 100s of millions and it doesn’t matter to these insane assholes. A coal fired plant could be emitting petunias and they’d still demand to shut it down.

    There’s just no way around it, we need to separate.

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  17. The anti-coal brigade are just leftwing flat earthers.

    Has anyone actually seen electricity in your home? You see what it does but, really, where do it come from? I want the stuff that comes from the socket to be green and when we shut off the coal plant then it will by definition now be greener.

    In fact, having no electricity will be incredibly green. Until you start burning wood for your fireplace to keep from freezing to death. Or your local utility has to start leasing gas/diesel powered generators or turbines to supplement the loss of affordable, safe stable and reliable coal.

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  18. The 850 mega watt coal plant in our county here in georgia was shut down last year. It had all the latest and greatest participators, catalytic converters,and was fed low sulfur coal.

    It was also a significant part of the employment picture here and a quite large segment of the tax base.

    Sacrificed on the altar of greenism.

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  22. Joe6pack – How are you gonna power your generator? “Not My President” Joe plans to get rid of internal combustion engines by 2035. Presumably that means getting rid of gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, aircraft fuel, etc.

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  23. I’m guessing the liberal fucks that know ‘SO MUCH MORE’ than anyone else, expects us to just buy extra batteries.

    If those ASSHOLES had even ONE brain cell….it would be all by itself.

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  24. We went through the same thing here in Green Bay. The 500 MW coal plant was killed by Obama and shut down 4 years ago. The good thing is that the USA has the largest deposit of Natural Gas in the world and it’s evenly deposited on both coasts. NatGas peaker plants are quick to build (3-6 months easy). Plus the national power grid is well developed. The bad news is your utility costs will go up some as long as you are dependent on the grid. The biggest mistake made during the Obama excuse was squandering that stimulus money on worthless pandering to unions for their vote. If he had spent that money on building new nuclear plants around the nation we all would be driving electric cars and “saving the planet” with affordable energy. Never trust a democrat to do what makes sense with your money.

  27. Wouldn’t it be great if we lived in a country where you have the freedom to choose which source of electrify you wanted. Sort of like choosing a phone carrier.

    Electric from oil, coal, wind, solar, Buffalo chip burning, or whatever.

    Nope, we have obamacareelectric.

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  31. One easy & obvious strategy – When approaching their power delivery limit. Look at the election results map. Districts that voted blue get their power cutoff first.

    The bluest districts go first, the lightest blue districts last before moving on to red districts if necessary. They asked for the darkness – give it to them. btw – How cold are winters in inland counties in Oregon? The colder it becomes the more focused the mind becomes on reevaluating past decisions about what they want.

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  33. I heat my home with anthracite. They can all eat shit and die.

    There’s nothing quite like a nice cannon heater with blue ladies dancing in it. I tend it twice a day — in the morning, and before I go to bed. I remove the ash from the previous tending, shake the thing down, refill with coal, and go about my bullshit.

    My cannon heater is kinda a piece of crap, but I have gone 7 weeks without having to do a cold-cleanout and re-firing. It took a few seasons to know what I was about… but you learn.

    And I heat the entire season for 500 dollars.

    I love anthracite.

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  34. I heat with wood. I like it fine. I can break down enough to get through the winter in a couple weekends. I split it by hand this year, had extra time on my hands. The kids hide under an electric blanket until the house warms up. It only takes a short time.

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  35. JDHasty, I do wood in that cannon heater when the days are consistently above 50F.

    Anthracite is ideal at about 50F in the day, down to whatever at night. I used to think it was 40F. But that was a matter of sealing up the heater.

    I can “bank” the coal and “idle” the heater into the 70sF outside temp.

    I use wood when the days are in the 60s (no need for heat) and the nights are 40 and below. It depends on the wind, too.

    Wood is not ideal in an anthracite heater. But we can do it with blanking plates over the grate and little bits of wood that will even fit in the potbelly.

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