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  • Cuba's power grid collapses again. Why does this keep happening?

    10/19/2024 11:04:07 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 28 replies
    NPR ^ | 10/19/2024 | Emily Green
    While the causes of the crisis are multifaceted, the country-wide blackout is a new low for the government — and those Cubans still living on the island. Amid growing desperation, an unprecedented number of Cubans are trying to migrate to the U.S. by any means possible. The island has lost an estimated 10 percent of its population over the last three years.
  • Cuba restores power to one-fifth of population after nationwide blackouts

    10/19/2024 10:24:48 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 26 replies
    Reuters ^ | October 20, 2024 | Dave Sherwood
    Cuba's government said late on Saturday it had restored power to nearly one-fifth of the island's people after the national grid collapsed twice in 24 hours, plunging millions of people into darkness. The unprecedented nationwide blackout is the latest blow in the nation of 10 million, already suffering from dramatic shortages of food, medicine and fuel. Cuba's top electricity official, Lazaro Guerra, said the grid operator was working to restore electricity but that the process would be slow and rushing the job could lead to more blackouts and a deterioration of service. "I cannot assure you that we will be...
  • Electricity Blackout Puts Cubans on Edge

    10/19/2024 8:26:48 AM PDT · by SaxxonWoods · 43 replies
    France24 ^ | 10/18/2024 | Staff
    "It's not only the lack of electricity but also of gas and water," she told AFP, 11 hours after the unplanned shutdown of Cuba's main thermal power plant triggered the collapse of the country's grid. With a frown, she said her "generation wants to continue trusting" in the 1959 revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power, but her "resilience has limits". Cuba is in the throes of its worst economic crisis in 30 years, marked by sky-high inflation and shortages of food, medicine, fuel and water.
  • High Electricity Prices Have Europe Facing Deindustrialization; Don’t Let It Happen Here

    10/19/2024 4:50:53 AM PDT · by george76 · 29 replies
    Heritage Foundation ^ | Feb 12, 2024 | Mario Loyola
    Europe’s electricity has become so expensive that trade unions have started warning of the threat of deindustrialization. Deepening Europe’s crisis, the Biden administration has announced a pause in liquefied natural gas export license approvals. U.S. policymakers should heed warnings from Europe, and embrace a policy of making American electricity once again the most reliable and affordable on Earth. Copied After years of misguided energy policies, Europe’s electricity has become so expensive that trade unions have started warning of the threat of deindustrialization. The warning will hopefully prove a salutary one for the U.S., which is now headed down the same...
  • Power Demand from Data Centers Keeping Coal-Fired Plants Online

    10/18/2024 4:46:02 AM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 25 replies
    Power Magazine ^ | October 16, 2024 | Darrell Proctor
    The power generation sector is looking at numerous ways to provide enough electricity to satisfy demand from data centers. Bloomberg Intelligence research shows data centers, buildings filled with servers and other computing equipment for data storage and networking that supports operations and artificial intelligence, could be responsible for as much as 17% of all U.S. electricity consumption by 2030. The U.S. Dept. of Energy has said one data center can require 50 times the electricity of a typical office building. Several technology groups are looking at nuclear power, including the use of small modular reactors, to meet their electricity needs....
  • 'Inside slider' to bring dire wildfire weather to parts of California

    10/16/2024 6:23:47 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 14 replies
    SF Gate ^ | October 15, 2024 | By Amy Graff
    Pacific Gas and Electric warned Tuesday it could cut power in five Bay Area counties beginning on Thursday due to dry and windy weather conditions that could heighten the wildfire risk across that state, according to the utility's website. In all, 30 California counties could face Public Safety Power Shutoffs from Thursday through Sunday, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties in the Bay Area. Thursday into Saturday, a storm system known as an “inside slider” is expected to impact California. Unlike weather systems that come off the Pacific Ocean, this system is expected to track across inland...
  • An Inflation Hurricane Is Shorting The Electric Grid

    10/13/2024 5:29:55 AM PDT · by george76 · 30 replies
    Robert Bryce ^ | Oct 08, 2024 | Robert Bryce
    Prices for generators, transformers, and other utility components are soaring. Hurricane Helene (and now Milton) will make the problem worse.. The reports about the damage caused by Hurricane Helene and the amount of water dumped on the region by the storm are gobsmacking. Last week, my friend, Jimmy Fortuna, an energy industry executive who lives in Asheville, sent me a text. He said, “Brother, I’m telling you, it’s like God’s own bulldozer went down these mountains and valleys. Maybe it did. Whole sections of town in Asheville and some whole towns in the mountains around us turned into mud flats.”...
  • Solar Delusions

    10/11/2024 9:24:25 AM PDT · by Tell It Right · 10 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 10/11/2024 | Norman Rogers
    The price of solar electricity is further reduced by about another 50 percent by a fleet of federal subsidies. That reduces the cost to $50 per megawatt-hour. The remaining gap between $50 and the $20 worth of gas saved is filled by increased electric rates ­­­— a subsidy paid for by electricity customers. A spreadsheet showing these computations can be downloaded here.
  • When the Electricity Dies

    10/10/2024 3:15:08 PM PDT · by george76 · 52 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 10/10/2024 | Jeffrey A. Tucker
    Once a huge champion of all things digital, I’ve come to develop serious doubts about the pace at which humanity made the switch from analog to the cloud. The hackings, outages, data breaches, and extended breakages all make the point. But the danger is even greater. Most of the things we use today have not been stress tested. They are centralized and have a single point of failure. And they are very vulnerable. It could all stop in an instant with no sure guarantee of when it will come back. A turning point came for me recently, while visiting a...
  • Call It Greenflation — And Kamala Wants More Of It

    09/25/2024 6:44:37 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 12 replies
    Issues & Insights ^ | 23 Sep, 2024 | I & I Editorial Board
    For families struggling to make ends meet, Kamala Harris claims she has a plan to lower energy costs. What she will deliver is more pain. Just ask anyone paying energy bills in a state her party controls. On Harris’ campaign website, she pays lip service to reducing energy costs, but then rattles off a long list of plans to tackle the “climate crisis.” We already know you can’t have one with the other. At a congressional hearing last week, members of the House Budget Committee heard from witnesses about how Biden-Harris policies have fueled today’s energy crisis. One of the...
  • World's biggest banks line up behind Trump's plan for nuclear energy

    09/24/2024 4:28:03 PM PDT · by rktman · 87 replies
    wnd.com ^ | 9/24/2024 | Bob Unruh
    In a move that could signal the beginning of the end for the expensive and unreliable Biden-Harris green energy ideology, 14 of the world's biggest banks have announced they are lining up behind President Donald Trump's plans for nuclear energy in the world's future. Online reporting cited documentation of the plans by the Financial Times: The statement said, "Banks and funds totaling $14 TRILLION in assets have just signed an unprecedented statement in support of nuclear power. They'll be presenting the pledge to support the goal of tripling nuclear THIS MORNING at the Rockefeller Center in New York City to...
  • Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions

    09/21/2024 9:52:17 AM PDT · by aquila48 · 36 replies
    Tom's Hardware ^ | Tom's Hardware
    Modern AI data centers consume enormous amounts of power, and it looks like they will get even more power-hungry in the coming years as companies like Google, Microsoft, Meta, and OpenAI strive towards artificial general intelligence (AGI). Oracle has already outlined plans to use nuclear power plants for its 1-gigawatt datacenters. It looks like Microsoft plans to do the same as it just inked a deal to restart a nuclear power plant to feed its data centers, reports Bloomberg. 819 MW for AI and cloud data centers Constellation Energy will invest $1.6 billion to restart its Three Mile Island nuclear...
  • How Much Energy Do AI Data Centers Suck Up? Enough to Restart Three Mile Island For

    09/20/2024 8:42:00 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Hotair ^ | 09/20/2024 | Beege Welborn
    Ah, THE FUTURE!It is weirdly starting to look like the past, no?While the Green grifters are busy making sure people's lives get less comfortable and more expensive every day, as the things that once made a "standard of living" worth attaining are stripped away piece by piece......some of the wealthiest in the EAT THE BUGS crowd have the wherewithal to take a different approach by virtue of their place in the economic food chain - at the pinnacle.Not relegated to gluing themselves to the floors of Porsche showrooms or flinging tomato soup at old masterpieces, these are the big thinkers,...
  • Solano County PG&E customer charged for someone else's utility bill for up to 18 years. ( California )

    09/19/2024 1:48:34 PM PDT · by george76 · 6 replies
    CBS News ^ | September 16, 2024 | Ashley Sharp
    VACAVILLE — Update: After this story was published on Monday, Sept. 16 the customer Ken Wilson provided an update to CBS13 on Tuesday, Sept. 17 that PG&E credited more than $600 to his account, the amount he has overpaid for three years. PG&E also fixed the meter on Tuesday so Wilson is now paying for his own electricity. A Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) customer who lives at an apartment complex in Vacaville recently noticed something was not quite right with his utility bill. After further investigation that included PG&E coming out to check his meter, they discovered he had...
  • UK High Court Revokes Permit for First Coal Mine in 30 Years

    09/16/2024 6:29:27 AM PDT · by cutty · 28 replies
    Oil price ^ | Sep 13, 2024 | Tsvetana Paraskova
    London’s High Court on Friday quashed a planning permission for the UK’s first new coal mine in three decades, ruling that the permit was unlawful as it hadn’t considered the emissions from burning the fuel. Earlier this year, climate campaigners, including Friends of the Earth, challenged the approval of the coal mining project. The UK’s previous Conservative government approved in December 2022 the Woodhouse Colliery project in Whitehaven, northwest England.. The project to mine metallurgical coal, the one used for steelmaking, will be required to support steelmaking.. However, the new Labour government in the UK pulled in July its support...
  • Scientists Develop “Shockingly” Simple Solution To Combat Coastal Erosion

    09/02/2024 3:21:49 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 61 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | 30/8/24 | Northwestern University
    A new method developed by Northwestern University uses electrical currents to solidify marine sand, creating durable, rock-like structures that could replace costly traditional coastal defenses like sea walls. Researchers from Northwestern University have demonstrated that a zap of electricity can strengthen a marine coastline for generations, mitigating the rising threat of erosion in the face of rising sea levels and climate change. In their study, recently published in Communications Earth and the Environment, the researchers took inspiration from clams, mussels, and other shell-dwelling sea life, which use dissolved minerals in seawater to build their shells. Similarly, the researchers leveraged the...
  • Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Considering 31 Million Acres of U.S. Public Lands for Solar Power Development

    08/30/2024 1:16:53 PM PDT · by ProtectOurFreedom · 71 replies
    Power Magazine ^ | August 30, 2024 | Darrell Proctor
    The Bureau of Land Management has published details of a plan to make millions of acres of public lands across the western U.S. available for development of solar power. The Western Solar Plan, which revises guidelines from more than a decade ago, was published in the Federal Register on August 30, 2024. The BLM said the plan would make 31 million acres of public lands (that is 48,437 square miles!) available for potential solar energy development. The new proposal seeks to bring solar projects to 11 states. The plan would place development closer to existing or planned power transmission lines,...
  • New York to Pay $155 Per Megawatt Hour for Wind, Current Rate is $36 Per MWH

    08/26/2024 5:16:42 PM PDT · by george76 · 76 replies
    MishTalk ^ | August 24, 2024 | Mike Shedlock
    It currently costs NY about $36 per MWH for energy. But the state demanded wind. Let’s discuss the amazing bottom line results. So Much for So Little The Wall Street Journal asks Why Is New York Paying So Much for Wind Power? New York state signed a contract in June to buy electricity generated by two large wind farms, Empire Wind 1 and Sunrise Wind, off the coast of Long Island. The projects are expected to begin in 2026 and 2027, with power delivered to Brooklyn (Empire) and Long Island (Sunrise). The state will pay $155 and $146 per megawatt-hour,...
  • Why Californians Have Some of the Highest Power Bills in the U.S.

    08/06/2024 6:53:33 PM PDT · by karpov · 23 replies
    Wall Street Journal ^ | August 5, 2024 | Phred Dvorak
    California is doing all it can to expand renewable energy production and rebuild its electrical infrastructure after flaws led to a series of devastating wildfires. The state’s big utilities are spending billions to bury power lines and insulate wires, while at the same time moving quickly away from fossil fuels by building big solar and wind farms and transmission lines to carry the power. As a result, resident Jessica Simpson Nehrer, who lives in Borrego Springs, near San Diego, has seen her electricity bill for her ranch-style house soar. It hit $1,873.90 in June, far exceeding her $1,200 rent and...
  • Fresno restaurant owner hit with $21,000 PG&E bill for one month, nearly double his rent

    07/29/2024 5:35:38 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 83 replies
    kmph.com ^ | July 12, 2024 | Mayra Franco
    A Fresno small restaurant owner says he has had enough after his PG&E bill was nearly double his rent. Manuel Perales, the owner of Yosemite Falls Cafe says his June utility bill was nearly $21,000. His rent? $10,000. “How do you pay that bill?" he said. He says it doesn't make sense to receive that astronomical bill even during the hottest months of the year. He's not the only one outraged with the increase of PG&E bills. He shares that one of his servers told him her monthly bill was $1,000. "This is a young lady with two kids. She...