12-02-2013, 05:13 PM
If you have an older transmission system with high line loss, and a locked in baseload production unit that is close to the base line generation needs, and really old production facilities and fairly old technology...well then you have what we have on island.
Some of the fluctuations are due more to the older systems on board & is also a result of having a very OLD grid...studies done on the islands energy pointed to the line losses due to the transmission lines quite a few years ago & Jay Ignoatio agreed that is one of HELCO main problems at a public forum at Imiloa last year.
Considering HELCO has stated more than once that they want to concentrate on the delivery rather than production (most of the new power production - and most of the renewable power - on island are by IPP's, not HELCO generation...) then why do we see replacement lines along a major base load production on 130 that look no .... umm... different (or better or higher capability...take your pick on value weighted expression) than the old lines? Not to mention the WHAT on moving them less than a lane width...seems to be there SHOULD be more easement space...but I digress...
Some of the fluctuations are due more to the older systems on board & is also a result of having a very OLD grid...studies done on the islands energy pointed to the line losses due to the transmission lines quite a few years ago & Jay Ignoatio agreed that is one of HELCO main problems at a public forum at Imiloa last year.
Considering HELCO has stated more than once that they want to concentrate on the delivery rather than production (most of the new power production - and most of the renewable power - on island are by IPP's, not HELCO generation...) then why do we see replacement lines along a major base load production on 130 that look no .... umm... different (or better or higher capability...take your pick on value weighted expression) than the old lines? Not to mention the WHAT on moving them less than a lane width...seems to be there SHOULD be more easement space...but I digress...