Posted on 04/15/2023 6:36:44 PM PDT by CFW
Some energy experts are raising a red flag that Illinois’ transition to clean energy may prompt reliability issues.
With more coal and gas plants going offline under Illinois' Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, some lawmakers are concerned of possible brownouts.
During a recent Senate Energy Committee hearing, Brian Thiry, external affairs director with Reliability First Corporation, said retirements of old power sources are outpacing new power sources coming online.
“As we shrink these margins, it is a reliability risk, so it is just something we need to consider. It is a risk that we are seeing and it's a risk we’re concerned about,” Thiry said.
Thiry warned that some renewable projects could be delayed due to financial problems or supply chain issues.
Diane Holder, vice president of Entity Engagement and Corporate Services with Reliability First, said what they are seeing are reduced reserve margins for energy.
“Retirements are outpacing new installations, and I’m sure you can understand, that is a bit of a gap, and one that we think battery storage can certainly help address, but battery storage is not yet fully developed,” Holder said.
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De-energize Chicago.
Popcorn sales to skyrocket.
No Energy is Clean Energy.
Like the moronic Illinois politicians would say, “What’s a reliability issue?”
I went without the gas furnace this last two winters....to see if I could do it. I did it.
Latitude matters.......
They are getting ready to do the same BS in Mi
If you are a resident of Illinois, you might want to invest in a gas generator as an emergency power source.
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....or if you live in lots of other places too. Remember, the effect of grid failures tend to start a domino effect that can be very widespread.
Remember the The Northeast Blackout of 2003? A software bug in the alarm system at FirstEnergy (Akron, Ohio) made the operators unaware they needed to redistribute load when a transmission line got overloaded after it drooped into some trees. This should have just been a small local problem but that domino effect took out a massive area in the northeast. Approximately 55 million people affected across 8 states and Ontario... some people were out for 7 hours while others were out for days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_blackout_of_2003#/media/File:Map_of_North_America,_blackout_2003.svg
I’m of the view that everything to do with our current state of affairs with all things electrical is horribly risky and unstable and one needs to have multiple backup plans.
But then we in the red states will be flooded with refugees.
No people is clean energy. That is the plan.
“You will have nothing to eat nor drink, and you will be happy for a few days....
Energy experts concerned that Illinois’ move to clean energy may cause reliability issues
Say it ain’t so.
Everyone check two things.
1. Is your state a net importer of power?
2. Did your state deregulate?
If both, you’re doubly screwed in the neat future.
Wall off ChIraq.
I’m in North Idaho and did a permanent 26 kW Briggs & Stratton generator installation 18 months ago. Our decision was mainly driven by the big wind storms we get that routinely knock out power, sometimes for days. But the woke / climate agendas at utility companies, even our Avista Energy, has me concerned that they just don’t care about reliability any more. For a while, it appeared Avista was going to be acquired by a Canadian company and I figured that investment in Avista would drop and reliability would suffer.
Bottom line (at least for me) — whether it’s utility acquisition, storms, climate-driven senior leadership, it makes sense to install your own generator. The USA power system is destined to become a lot more unreliable because, as the article points out, conventional power plant retirements are exceeding new power plant additions and the new additions of wind and solar destabilize the existing power grid.
Ya think??
“....or if you live in lots of other places too. Remember, the effect of grid failures tend to start a domino effect that can be very widespread.”
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Yeah, we have two generators on our property. And we keep a couple of containers of gas here as well. The gas gets replenished as it goes into the lawn equipment or tractor on a regular basis, and my husband takes a can with him when he goes to fill up his truck so hopefully we will not be caught short.
Living in a rural area we are often subject to power failures since a storm can bring down a tree onto a power line and our county has a lot of timber property and a lot of trees.
Years ago, we even had a power outage due to a car taking out a power pole. I remember that instance very well. It was about twenty-five years ago when we still watched professional football and it was on a Sunday evening about fifteen minutes before the start of the Superbowl. LOL! I recall they got the power restored just after the ending of the game. No internet at the time, and we have never had cable TV, so we were frantically trying to find out the results of the game, as our TV channel had returned to its regularly scheduled programming.
There is always something that can affect the electrical grid and the risks seem to keep increasing, especially with the left’s push for “green energy”. Everyone should invest in a generator sufficient to power a couple of lights, a radio, and the fridge and freezer for a couple of hours each day. Oh, and also the coffee maker. You can’t deal with an emergency situation unless you have coffee!
“You will have nothing to eat nor drink, and you will be happy for a few days....”
Or at least for the remainder of your life.....which will be only a few days.
Clearly, the following list of people must abandon the use of anything that generates heat (including food):
- communists
- district attorneys
- judges
- “news media”
- progressives
- socialists
in order to be righteous before GREEN.
Natural Gas, Propane, Diesel, gasoline or wood fired?
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