Shortages give an excuse for rationing. Maybe they can use a Social Credit Score to determine who gets to use electricity.
Having been part of the generation side of PJM for nearly 40 years and still active at a Nuclear Power Plant I can add my small bit of awareness. It is much worse than what you are reading. The ability to maintain plants is becoming much worse given the economy and lack of businesses that can support this type of technology declining.
It has become very adversarial forcing many businesses to just walk away from supporting non favored energy sources.
“PJM Interconnection sounds the latest alarm that fossil-fuel plants are shutting down without adequate replacement power. The political class yawns.”
Why should they care? Getting WW3 started in Ukraine is a FAR-HIGHER priority to them, as McConnell and Democrat Leaders have made quite clear.
So, time to buy generators, everyone!!!
More EVs will help.....
Even when they do build “renewables”, a reliable power source is needed for when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.
The good news is that when the power goes out and people start dying, people will be looking for politicians to string up.
LINK TO FULL DOCUMENTARY: "Grid Down, Power Up"
It is frightening, but we NEED people at all levels in our country to be frightened about this. We need our entire country to be completely united on this issue. Hard Core Rabid Leftists and Right Wing Nuts could even find cause for achieving common ground, but I suspect the rabid Leftists would be all in favor of having things burn to the ground, so that might not be possible.
We need to do this, and are forty years overdue.
Wait until we start to send all of our bench stock of electrical components, transformers, turbines, etc. to Ukraine to rebuild what’s left of that country power grid.
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
The so-called “renewable” power sources, wind and/or solar, cannot, BY DESIGN, possibly keep up with the rate of retirement of of the hydrocarbon fuel power plants or the aging uranium-fueled Light Water Reactor power plants.
This is leading inevitably to the wholesale adoption of Very Small Nuclear Reactor power plants, which are already developed, and can be ramped up relatively quickly, as they are of modular design, the components can be delivered by rail transport or even trucked in on semi trailers to the site, and the site prepared in short while, in close proximity to the point where the power is to be consumed.
These Very Small Nuclear Reactors have been under development for several decades now, and overcome most of the objections previously raised against the use of nuclear power.
This is the bridge to the future, if the intention is to rescue the economy is in any way serious. Of course, total collapse of the economy is also the way to destroy capitalism forever, and that may be the real objective.
In which case there shall be no viable future to which a bridge may be built.
Biden’s Secret War on Our Energy EXPOSED |
Run time 48 min 9 sec
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oPji6Vmn0gU
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We already have rolling blackouts in California - and alerts telling us NOT to plug in EVs or large appliances when the power grid is overloaded, as it is during our many summer heat waves.
Yet the Gov of the state...
“Gavin Newsom Bans Sale Of Gas-Powered Cars In State By 2035”
We’re supposed to all supposed to drive EVs by 2035 - yet there are no plans to upgrade, update and expand the electrical grid.
Reminds me of that old joke:
What did socialists use before candles?
Electricity.
A couple of weeks ago Glenn Beck had a UTAH state rep talking about this in his state as well and has begun to introduce legislation to put the brakes on these changes in his state. However, the Biden administration is promising a lot of money for power companies to shut down their coal-fired plants and replace with solar/wind power with a net loss of generated power.
Sorry, I can’t remember the exact time of the airing as I was driving to Florida.
Yes, right after nappy time...
It is obvious electric vehicles are doomed NEVER to replace our gasoline and diesel vehicles. With already declining grid capacity, it will be impossible to recharge such vehicles on a massive scale.
More than ever, the rush to outlaw internal combustion engines is an obvious assault on our ownership of personal vehicles. Electric vehicles will be outlawed as impractical to recharge at a scale of millions of consumers.
Cars equal liberty and it is being stolen from us RIGHT NOW.
We are walking into a trap set purposefully by the tyrants who know electric vehicles are a ruse to impose their tyranny.
Not concerned. People will get real testy when they don’t have their electricity.
And watch over the next few years as the left demands that TX join the federal interconnects “to protect it’s citizens” when in reality all they want is access to the surplus generated here most the time
We need look no further than Texas and soon California for what is in store for the electric grid nationally. Texas touts that nearly 20% of its electric power comes from windmills and yet has seen major blackouts lasting for days when temperatures fall and demand for power increases.
