De-energize Chicago.
Popcorn sales to skyrocket.
No Energy is Clean Energy.
Like the moronic Illinois politicians would say, “What’s a reliability issue?”
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.
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.
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??
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.
Chicago is completely surrounded by nuclear plants. Shutting them down is madness.
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Replacing reliable energy sources with very unreliable ones may cause reliability issues. No sh**!
About how much does a whole house gen. set cost? Rough estimate.
They were going to shut down the nuclear power plant near me but changed their mind after an uproar over it
Is there anything they do right in Illinois?
