Generation and Transmission Studies
doing business as Eugene G Preston PE PhD
Cutting edge technology in system reliability analysis
for systems relying heavily on wind, solar, and hydro.
· Eugene G. Preston's Presentations
· Texas P.E. Board Registration
· email: g.preston@ieee.org

Electric System Reliability:
My presentation to the Engineering and Science Council of Houston Oct 7 2023.
The same presentation recorded in my home office prior to Oct 7.
The presentation slides. Why not 100% renewables? The Excel file is shown below as file ERCOT22A.xlsx.
ERCOT22A.xlsx is the current ERCOT system using 2022 hourly data with CO2 sources producing 59% of the energy (7.3 c/kWh).
ERCOT22C.xlsx 30 GW nuclear long 200 hr thermal storage using 2021 Storm Uri has no CO2 from gas peaking and works with renewables (10.2 c/kWh).
ERCOT22C1.xlsx 30.5 GW nuclear long 200 hr thermal storage using 2022 Storm Elliott has no CO2 from gas peaking and works with renewables (11.7 c/kWh).
Dr Forsberg American Nuclear Society 2023 Nuclear thermal CRUSH storage presentation.
Other cases are on my previous web page.

My 1997 Dissertation and 2002 ERCOT Seminar:
Dissertation on composite generation/transmission reliability (1.3 Mb) and at Univ of Texas Library...
...Appendices A B C D and Bibliography and Defense
My dissertation also revealed a way to perform Piecewise Quadratic time domain analysis.
IEEE paper on generation reliability modeling with transmission constraints
IEEE paper on transmission reliability modeling for multiple line outages (zipflow)
An ERCOT Seminar on Loss of Load Probability (LOLP) basic concepts.
The 1999 Synchronous Interconnection Study report to the Texas Legislature.
My 1979 Masters is a way to linearly allocate losses in large power systems.
AC circuit analysis program I wrote in college in 1969 predates Spice.

Other Interesting Stuff:
We know that global warming is accelerating and that the goal of the Paris Agreement is dead.
2022 Energy and CO2 articles and Greenland and Antarctica Ice Loss and Dr Sylvia Dee_Climate.mp4 presentation.
David Yeomans shows our summer peak temperatures are rising in this graph of historical average daily summer temperatures.
MOND outperforms dark matter theories. Dark matter might be energy in the gravity fields themselves, especially from black holes.
Event horizon talk suggests we need a new gravity theory for super massive black holes.
JWST distant galaxies well developed may be explained by General Relativity ideas.
This paper is an outline discussing two severe problems with General Relativity.
Entangled pions discovery suggests a link to a simplified physics fields model.
A simple gravity fields look at a neutron suggests it probably is a black hole.
Here are some examples showing how the speed of light is a hidden variable.
New gravity equation explains galaxy rotation without needing dark matter.
Source of the fine line 137 constant is derived from EM as spherical energy.
If you want to see just how much missing mass there is take a look at this.
Simple space ship experiment shows the speed of light must be variable.
Einstein's Assumption Fails conservaton of wavefronts test.
The apparent speed of light is a constant but is it absolute?
My twitter comments on energy and climate change.
See how to replace a broken sony vaio touch screen.
2018 Tesla 3 charges with solar using this inverter.
Boomer Block Pools Scamming Information.
Year 2000 chucch mission trip to Honduras.
Links to other K5GP amateur radio info . .