SkiingAway t1_ja657uz wrote
Reply to comment by cwalton505 in New England grid operator says small-scale solar is driving down electricity demand on some days by TurretLauncher
I mean, that's very easy to prove correct, since it's happened recently.
We hit 40% oil-fired generation on Christmas Eve this year, and prices spiked to over $2,000/MWh around that time.
Bloomberg article (archive link since paywall): https://archive.is/LnFvP
You could also just go straight to the source: https://www.iso-ne.com/isoexpress/. "Resource Mix Graph" and then pick 12/24/22 and look at it. At peak, we were generating 6.5GW from oil that day.
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