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.
Natural Gas, Propane, Diesel, gasoline or wood fired?
“I’m in North Idaho and did a permanent 26 kW Briggs & Stratton generator installation 18 months ago.”
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Smart move. It may be this coming winter or in a couple of years, but I suspect you will be happy you did so.
We are lucky in Georgia. Decades ago, our leaders (both D and R) decided to go ahead with the completion of the plant Vogtle nuclear plant. Unit Three just went online and is producing energy and Unit Four should go online by the end of the year or the first quarter of 2024. There were delays, often caused by environmental groups and the federal government, cost overruns (of course), and it took a lot longer to complete than the first two units. This is the first nuclear plant to be built in the nation in decades.
Yes, I’m sure the regular increases in our power bills are partially due to the plant, but it will be worth it to have reliable electricity while other states are suffering from brown-outs due to their ignorance and “green-energy” dreams. I’m also sure they will demanding we be fair and “share” our energy with them in the future. We may have to implement “border control” at that point.
Bfl...
How much fuel does that hog use in a 24 hour period? Might as well go to a hotel.