Posted on 05/19/2022 10:40:42 PM PDT by blam
Tens of millions of Americans could be thrown into a summer of hell as a megadrought, heatwaves, and reduced power generation could trigger widespread rolling electricity blackouts from the Great Lakes to the West Coast, according to Bloomberg, citing a new report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a regulatory body that manages grid stability.
NERC warned power supplies in the Western US could be strained this summer as a historic drought reduces hydroelectric power generation due to falling reservoir levels and what’s expected to be an unseasonably hot summer. Compound the hellacious weather backdrop with grids decommissioning fossil fuel power plants to fight climate change and their inability to bring on new green power generation, such as solar, wind, and batteries, in time, is a perfect storm waiting to happen that will produce electricity deficits that may force power companies into rolling blackouts for stability purposes.
The regulatory body pointed out that supply-chain woes are delaying major Southwest solar projects, while some coal plants have trouble procuring supplies because of increased exports. They said there’s also an increasing threat of cyberattacks from Russia.
By region, the Midwest power grid will be extremely tight. Across the Western US, power generation capacity has declined 2.3% since last summer, even as demand is expected to increase. Grids in the region may have to source power from neighboring grids as extreme heat will cause people to crank up their air conditioners. A situation of low wind speeds could trigger blackouts, according to NERC. They outlined how the Midwest could face power shortfalls due to the removal of power capacity from retiring fossil fuel power plants.
NERC issued a similar warning last year, stating power grids that serve 40% of the US population were at risk of blackouts. One year later, there was only one notable blackout last June during a heatwave in the Pacific Northwest that left 9,000 customers without power. But with reduced electricity generation capacity outpacing new green power sources, the risks of blackouts are increasing this year.
In Texas, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT)has already warned multiple times of grid stress as early summer-like heatwaves sent temperatures in certain parts of the state into triple-digit territory.
California’s grid operators have also warned of rising blackout threats –for the next three summers — as the state transitions to greener forms of energy. The drought and shrinking reservoir levels have reduced hydroelectric power generation on top of decommissioned fossil fuel power plants. “We know that reliability is going to be difficult in this time of transition,” said Alice Reynolds, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, during a May 6 press conference.
NERC’s report is an eye-opener for those living in the Western US. Many households face out-of-control inflation, soaring fuel prices, and food shortages ahead of what could be a summer of unrest as the Biden administration is bracing for a wave of violence upon the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe V. Wade.
America is slipping into the abyss as households get a taste of what it’s like to live in Venezuela. It’s not that far off from what people are experiencing today: soaring inflation, shortages, a ruling regime which so many claim was not elected by the majority and soon, rolling blackouts.
Ask yourself....how does going full-up E-car in ten years...make any sense with the current grid?
Should read
Blackouts possible this summer due to government interference.
Blackouts = hundreds of elderly deaths and countless other deaths due to lack of electricity.
But no electricity means no tv, no cnn, and heck even no power to charge up phones.. but im sure the govt will find a way to ensure we have access to their propoganda.
Gruesome Newsom and his democrat party are literally shutting the lights off in places like Los Angeles and San Francisco at random.
Good luck with no power.
Environ-MENTAL-ism.
American Soviet-style political posters, complete with socialist realism style of art.
they promise the jetsons
but deliver the flintstones
I like that...
Refugees flood into Nebraska seeking a place to recharge their iPhones.
Wonder if ANY of them remember that they voted to drain their reservoirs to save some useless fish.
The climate change AGENDA will to the world far more damage than climate change, (if indeed there is any).
(yourself....how does going full-up E-car in ten years...make any sense with the current grid?)
Hey it works in Star Trek and Star Wars.
Power from........ somewhere.
It works in the movies.
Along similar lines:
Alan Greenspan said we can basically print all the money we want so the deficit isn’t a problem. Then he reversed himself. He was for it before he was against it.
Follow the science!
(Jetsons)
She took his wallet!
What’s in his wallet?
I dunno...
She took it!
(Soviet-style political posters, complete with socialist realism style of art.)
Seems like I saw some of that over a decade ago.
Now, where was it I saw it?
“… inability to bring on new green power generation, such as solar, wind, and batteries”
To make the “green” fantasy work, you need TRILLIONS of investment in batteries or other storage. The entirety of all currently deployed battery storage can power the country for a couple of minutes. There aren’t enough mines and ore refineries in the world to produce the materials to make the needed batteries.
Indifference is not the problem.
The problem is what they care about (or at least claim to care about).
People that care about the fictitious problem of anthropomorphic global warming are in control of our government and are attacking our energy infrastructure.
Not caring is not the problem. What they care about is the problem.
Electric cars are a method of control. They hate that you can get cheap gas, fill up in a couple of minutes, and be off 300, 400+ miles in any direction thereafter.
With electric cars they can ensure that you have to wait a while to “refill,” you’ll take a route where charging stations are available, and you’re pinned to a relatively low number of miles.
But dagnabbit, you’re saving the environment!
Blackouts by design. The sacrifice to fight “climate change.”
“The regulatory body pointed out that supply-chain woes are delaying major Southwest solar projects, while some coal plants have trouble procuring supplies because of increased exports.”
Exports to the point of not meeting domestic needs first???
Sounds like some SERIOUS SHIITE is going on here, as in the US replacing Russian coal supplies to Europe, even at the expense of blackouts here.
I think we can safely expect more of this ‘sharing the pain’. The question is how much more and how much of this crap will Americans tolerate, just to keep the DNC/Neocon Money Laundering Facility running in Ukraine?
Xcel in New Mexico and Texas panhandle says they are in good shape and ready for the summer. (The panhandle is not on ERCOT).
https://www.newschannel10.com/2022/05/18/xcel-energy-prepared-high-power-demand-summer-heat/
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