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Comment by baq

4 months ago

New datacenters are being planned next to natgas hubs for a reason. They’re being designed with on site gas turbines as primary electricity sources.

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robocat  4 months ago

Natural gas production has peaked: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=66564 (see second graph)

Planning gas turbines doesn't help much if gas prices are about to increase due to lack of new supply.

New Zealand put in peaker gas turbines, but is running out of gas to run them, so its electricity market is gonna be fucked in a dry year (reduced water from weather for hydro):

  • Domestic gas production is forecast to fall almost 50 per cent below projections made just three years ago. 
  • In a dry year, New Zealand no longer has enough domestic gas to [both] fully operate existing thermal generation and meet industrial gas demand.

https://www.mbie.govt.nz/dmsdocument/31240-factsheet-challen...