SUPER-SUPRA INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES ACTIVATE INTENT TO ADDRESS ELECTRICITY CRISES
Innovative Info-Tech Solution to fading out dispatchable for intermittent electricity
Super-supra information technologies can now create and operate super-power, time-sequenced, real time, fault tolerant distributed ledger technologies to innovate electricity transmission.
Essentially supra, these distributed ledger technologies thrive atop and across incumbent and prospective independent system operator and regional transmission organization grids.
Because super-supra efficiencies and efficacies assure speed and accuracy compatibly with incumbent operating and data management systems, innovation of electricity transmission becomes all the more feasible and cost effective.
Their timeliness could not be more urgent.
There is not enough dispatchable electricity due to phasing-out and retiring of coal and gas fired generation coupled with the inadequacies of intermittent wind and solar generation that is coming on line.
As FERC Commissioner Mark C. Christie observed in comments to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in May: “In terms of capacity value – which is the amount of power that can be supplied to the grid when needed -- one nameplate megawatt of wind or solar is simply not equal to one nameplate megawatt of gas, coal or nuclear. So even if every unit waiting in… [a]…queue was interconnected, that would not solve the reliability problem caused by too-rapid loss of dispatchable generation. The numbers just do not balance…. The same problem of cascading retirements of dispatchable resources is also present in other RTOs. MISO, which serves the Midwest and parts of the Southeast, has also been warning regularly about this coming reliability threat.”
Demography adds to the problem. Massive out-migration of more than 500,000 people from California the last two years, coupled with 4.5 million illegal aliens and 1.2 million so-called ‘gotaways’ eluding any documentation crossing into southern border states increase demand for electricity across the region. This is a pressing concern in Texas, which attracted goodly numbers of both cohorts.
Electric powered motor vehicles and domestic appliances add to demand.
With less dispatchable electricity, larger population and more heterogenous uses, brownouts and shortages loom as inescapable transmission grid devolutions. Whole regions of the country could well find themselves afflicted with intermittent electricity, a plight generally characterizing impoverished, developing, or autocratic nation states.
This is where super-supra information technologies express their utility by clarifying intent to afford foreknowledge. Amid portending scarcities, super-supra information technologies stabilize ways of doing business by rewarding one or another party to indicate the electricity it will dispatch and when it will do so; that is, to recognize intent. This is a huge value-add when sui generis attributes of wind and solar render too little generation while too much natural gas, coal and nuclear generation is rushed into premature early retirement. Nothing could be more timely and less invaluable. Super-supra IT rationalizes communications among and across independent system operators, regional transmission organizations, and all varieties of electricity generators including new distributed generation sources.
Super-supra information technologies are also helpful conducting root cause analyses as well. “The objective of investigating and reporting the cause of occurrences is to enable the identification of corrective actions adequate to prevent recurrence and thereby protect the health and safety of the public, the workers, and the environment,” the Department of Energy requires. By boosting speed and assuring accuracy, the technologies enable readier findings without disturbing incumbent data management and information systems.