How many warnings does it take before the Biden Administration wakes up to the risks of its climate policies to the U.S. electric grid?
The latest came this month from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), and please pray the wind keeps blowing.
NERC’s summer reliability assessment forecasts that no less than two-thirds of the U.S., including most everyone living west of the Mississippi River, could experience power outages.
Texas and most of the Midwest should have enough power to meet demand—assuming they don’t experience any sizzling hot and still summer days.
Texas last summer narrowly averted a power outage by leaning on businesses to curtail operations. The state has since added enough solar to power about 200,000 homes.
But demand has grown even more, and the sun doesn’t shine at night. NERC forecasts a 19 percent probability of a grid emergency at 8 p.m. Do Texans feel lucky?
One new variable this summer is the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently finalized Good Neighbor Plan, which requires ‘fossil-fuel’ power plants in 22 states to reduce NOx emissions.
NERC predicts power plants will comply by limiting hours of operation but warns they may need regulatory waivers in the event of a power crunch.
The EPA claimed the rule wouldn’t jeopardize grid reliability, but then why would power plants need waivers to prevent blackouts?
This month, the Fifth Circuit of the Court of Appeals stayed the rule in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. But it [remains] a wild card in determining whether the lights stay on in the Midwest and West.
Another growing concern is glitchy solar plant inverters, which convert DC to AC power.
These have caused solar plants in California and Texas to experience concurrent outages when there has been a problem somewhere else on the grid.
Solar plants have “exhibited systemic performance issues,” NERC recently warned.
Faulty solar inverters can amplify minor grid problems and trigger widespread power outages.
But fixing the glitches requires a software update, which NERC reported in December was still in the “study phase.”
Such technical problems could become a bigger threat to grid reliability as solar generation grows across the country, NERC warns.
One state that hasn’t learned from California’s green-energy folly is New York.
A new state regulation will force 627 megawatts of gas and oil “peaker” plants—which can rapidly ramp up to provide power in a pinch—to shut down this year.
That’s enough to power 470,000 homes. This year’s state budget requires the New York Power Authority to retire all peaker plants by 2030.
New York plans to compensate by building more offshore wind farms, but they face permitting challenges and don’t provide reliable power.
The NERC report is an alarm about the Biden Administration and states moving full-speed aheadon the ‘green-energy’ transition.
Maybe when the power does go out, they will stop hitting snooze.
Why does the Government, that is to work for the American Citizens, keep messing up ALL that works, worked, is working, has worked, can work, and they create problems, issues from health to Green BS excuses to do Americans harm, IMO??????
ReplyDeleteTime for an overhaul, those power greed empty headed ones that prevent life to be as awesome as possible for mankind need removed, in my opinion!
There better be NO Blackouts except maybe on their own Hill? Don't rain on the people's parade, right? Created messes to inject stupidity is getting to point of which we need intervention ASAP, IMO! Meanwhile we know most of what they spew are fear propaganda because they themselves are miserable, otherwise why the evil darts against the people in USA????
No more excuses for stupidity, next!!!! Open the mines, the oil, the farming, save the soil,
do common-sense things, and kick out of office those that are not of sound minds, IMO~
Stick green energy on steroids up their as@es, see if this clears their minds perhaps?
Let us examine. Create food shortages, stress power grid, push gender mutilation, incentivize migration, demonize Christianity, create stress between races by promoting one race while demonizing another, censoring opponents, destabilizing nation states and funding wars, demanding more intrusiveness into homes and vehicles by installing devices that can be viewed, shut off, or rendered useless, abuse of individual liberties and the right to privacy, protection, freedom of speech and peaceful protest, and more. This is where humanity is currently at in the early stages of a global build back better program instituted by the WEF and pushed by those that wish to reduce the population by 8 billion souls to move to planetary division Where certain families regulate complete control over the planet. Examine now whom are pushing this agenda and what they have in common. You will have your answer. Pull back the curtain and expose them to the light of GOD. It is not the first time they rejected THE WAY.
ReplyDeleteHummm, commentator has a great idea, expose them to the light of GOD! Yet, meanwhile, action on the part of the Billions at risk, must continue as well to be proactive to those reprobate minds, IMO!
ReplyDeleteWhere are our angels on Earth, they walk among us, and money throughout History could not conquer, nor off-set God's wrath, right? If mankind has had enough of evil rising, God has too!