Posted on 07/24/2018 11:58:18 AM PDT by detective
California’s grid operator is asking customers to limit electricity use during peak hours to help keep power flowing as a “heat dome” settles over the southwestern U.S.
But they were warned of this months ago. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warned in May that California faced “significant risk of encountering operating conditions that could result in operating reserve shortfalls.”
Expected power demand is expected to outstrip California’s available generating capacity by about 5,000 megawatts on Tuesday, according to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO).
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If they kicked out a couple million illegals sucking up their resources they would probably be in better shape.
“You’re not borrowing electricity, you’re making more. A better analogy is getting a 2nd part time job to pay some extra expenses that crop up.”
Actually, what you are doing is paying to put a large, ugly structure on the roof of your home that has an expected payback of about 15 years. It is only the large taxpayer funded subsidies that make it economically viable.
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