Posted on 05/19/2022 1:14:33 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
xtreme temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle across vast areas of the country this summer, potentially leading to electricity shortages and blackouts, a US power grid regulator said Wednesday.
NERC, a regulating authority that oversees the health of the nation’s electrical infrastructure, says in its 2022 Summer Reliability Assessment that extreme temperatures and ongoing drought could cause the power grid to buckle. High temperatures, the agency warns, will cause the demand for electricity to rise. Meanwhile, drought conditions will lower the amount of power available to meet that demand.
“Industry prepares its equipment and operators for challenging summer conditions. Persistent, extreme drought and its accompanying weather patterns, however, are out of the ordinary and tend to create extra stresses on electricity supply and demand,” said Mark Olson, NERC’s manager of Reliability Assessments.
On Thursday, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center called for nearly the entire contiguous United States to experience above average temperatures this summer.
The power grid is extremely delicate and electricity supply must always meet electricity demand, experts warn. If not, capacity shortfalls can occur. A shortfall is when there is not enough power being generated to meet demand.
Forced power outages, also known as rolling blackouts, are initiated during these situations – which is what millions of Americans run the risk of seeing this summer – to prevent long term damage to the grid.
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No, it would be due to retarded eco-nazi restrictions imposed by the government.
We had pretty good dominion over the weather until they stepped in.
And Prog Dem policies. It’s what they want.
Surprisingly, the wind doesn’t blow in the dead of summer in most places.
Who knew?
But keep buying those electric cars.
Quick - everyone should plug in their electric cars!
NO!!! Those are absolutely pure BS excuses and lies.
It is due to shutting down coal and nuclear plants and even shutting down natural gas fired peaking units. It is due to a childlike belief that we can use unreliable and expensive windmills and solar with ZERO storage as a substitute.
It is due to weak minds believing this fallacy and even weaker minds in the populace who believe we can switch today to "green" energy and power our industrial society with extremely low energy density supplies.
Not to mention environ-MENTAL dumb dumbs pushing us into renewables too quickly.
Maybe we should be mining for more electricity?
....and lack of capacity.
In other words summer combined with the fact the climate a-holes have shut down power plants all over the country are bringing rolling black outs. Of course the propagandists at CNN blame it on “Climate Change”.
Due to heat and extreme weather??? Baloney!
Due to shuttering coal fired plants and blocking nuke plants and blocking NatGas pipelines and oil pipelines and refineries and gas fired powerplants and... - all due to demo-commie malfeasance. Every one of them need a good hanging.
It is due to shutting down coal and nuclear plants and even shutting down natural gas fired peaking units.
Exactly right. Well said.
Thanks. I forgot about that. A number of power generating dams in the western states have already been demolished. They are going after the big ones now.
Right on!
I heard that on FNC and was glad I didn’t own an electric vehicle.
There’s a Texas governor election this November. Any wide-spread power outages this summer would not be taken kindly by Texas voters.
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