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Originally Posted by starslayer
1. The US does not represent the entire world, but I am actually suprised to hear that only 8% of US power is renewable (I thought you guys had a lot more hydro-power) <reference: https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3 says 12% which is close enough to what Ryan Said > |
I was talking specifically about the US, since the OP put the game setting in the US. I think I saw the same page, but I must have added it up wrong. I think I read the 4.4 for wind as 0.4. Call it 11-12%.
Whatever it is, the panic will leave a lot of power consumers on until power producers start failing. That's toxic to grid stability. In 2003, a software error that prevented an alarm from a single failure in a power line in Ohio knocked out power to 55 million people across the Northeast US and Ontario.