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U.S. power companies face supply-chain crisis this summer
Thomson Reuters ^ | June 29, 2022 | Scott Disavino

Posted on 07/05/2022 7:15:12 PM PDT by george76

U.S. power companies are facing supply crunches that may hamper their ability to keep the lights on as the nation heads into the heat of summer and the peak hurricane season.

Extreme weather events such as storms, wildfires and drought are becoming more common in the United States. Consumer power use is expected to hit all-time highs this summer, which could strain electric grids at a time when federal agencies are warning the weather could pose reliability issues.

Utilities are warning of supply constraints for equipment, which could hamper efforts to restore power during outages. They are also having a tougher time rebuilding natural gas stockpiles for next winter as power generators burn record amounts of gas following the shutdown of dozens of coal plants in recent years and extreme drought cuts hydropower supplies in many Western states.

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The U.S. Midwest faces the most severe risk because demand is rising while nuclear and coal power supplies have declined

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BRACING FOR SUPPLY SHORTAGES..

Utility operators are conserving their inventory of parts and equipment

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We’re doing a lot more splicing, putting cables together, instead of laying new cable because we're trying to maintain our new cable for inventory when we need it," Nick Akins, chief executive of AEP

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Transformers, which often sit on top of electrical poles and convert high-voltage energy to the power used in homes, are in short supply.

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You don’t want to deplete your inventory because you don’t know when that storm is coming, but you know it’s coming

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Some utilities are facing waiting times of more than a year for transformer parts, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and the American Public Power Association told U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in a May letter.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: electric; electrical; electricpower; energy; lights; power; supply; transformers; utilities
Barack installing massive commercial- grade propane ( fossil fuel ) tanks at his Martha’s Vineyard estate.. so he will have electric power 24/7 when the balloon goes up.

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1 posted on 07/05/2022 7:15:12 PM PDT by george76
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To: george76

For those who wonder what life was like in the Nineteenth Century, they will soon get to see it first-hand.


2 posted on 07/05/2022 7:53:46 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Gnome1949

We’re all Amish now.


3 posted on 07/05/2022 7:56:10 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: george76

“Extreme weather events such as storms, wildfires and drought are becoming more common in the United States“

F’n Reuters, it is that kind of lie that got us into this mess.


4 posted on 07/05/2022 7:59:41 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Gnome1949

And, people are going to find that it is really quite nice. Even book reading could reverse the dumbing down of the population.


5 posted on 07/05/2022 8:02:32 PM PDT by Bogie
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To: george76

Managed Decline

That is every Western nation now.

The divide between the classes is widening.

You’ll own nothing and be happy if you’re already a silly consumer person into the latest fads and silly entertainment like masked singer.

The thinkers and doers, not so happy.


6 posted on 07/05/2022 8:26:44 PM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: Gnome1949

we got a taste of it on the 4’th= power outage for over an hour-


7 posted on 07/05/2022 8:32:02 PM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: gibsonguy

You bet...And now the Communist have all the kids so afraid, teaching them they only have 8 years left until they die because bad white men have destroyed earth.

And some people can’t understand why some of these kids want to kill everyone is sight.


8 posted on 07/05/2022 8:55:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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And the same idiots crippling power providers want to load grids down with millions of electric cars.....

Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" scam was invented by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome as a tool to force a drastic die-off of human populations. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.

Meanwhile, trust the oligarchs to find private profit in public misery.

9 posted on 07/05/2022 10:51:37 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (qd4)
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To: Gnome1949

True if they think summer is going to be bad wait until winter I’m stocking up on wood and coal now new Franklin stove on order for a back up.


10 posted on 07/06/2022 7:39:22 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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To: george76

Intentional supply chain disruptions.


11 posted on 07/06/2022 7:50:38 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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To: gibsonguy

It gets worse.

<>federal agencies are warning the weather could pose reliability issues.<>

We pay these idiots huge salaries to spread their stupid.


12 posted on 07/06/2022 2:57:22 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Pollard

In the third world there is intermittent electrical power in many locations.

Since the government controls the utilities they make sure their power is kept on while the peons have to do without.

Coming here soon....


13 posted on 07/06/2022 2:59:34 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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