Posted on 01/24/2024 4:25:02 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
Climate change has led many states and countries to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from power systems. Oregon has set targets for all power sold to retail customers in the state to have GHG emissions cut by 80% by 2030, 90% by 2035, and 100% by 2040.
...Portland General Electric (PGE) generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to half of Oregon’s population, and 75% of its commercial and industrial activity, is working hard to achieve those objectives. As the first utility in the U.S. to sign The Climate Pledge, an initiative co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism in 2019, which has since had 464 signatories join, committing to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.
Kristen Sheeran, senior director of sustainability, strategy, and resources planning at PGE, said the process is pretty straightforward in some ways. “In order to reduce carbon on our system, we have to back out fossil fuels that we currently rely on to generate power for our customers, and we have to replace that with non-emitting alternatives.”
Perhaps more difficult than decarbonizing the system, however, is doing so while also maintaining reliability, affordability, and an equitable system for all its customers. “It’s a very interesting point in time—an inflection point for the industry,” Sheeran said. “How do you balance affordability? How do you balance reliability with emissions reduction?” she asked.
(Excerpt) Read more at powermag.com ...
They should just shut down all generating plants and national gas transmission. Then they could get a buck stove. Oh, no that won’t work. What to do, what to do?
Meanwhile, 150K+ Portlanders went without electric power for days during the most recent snow and ice storm.
They could decarbonize the power grid today. Just throw all the breakers and lock them open, shut down all the generators, and invite the BLM crowd to “salvage” the copper windings.
Done and dusted.
Complete idiots. This will be a total failure.
Decarbonize on a Carbon based planet , how crazy is that ,LOL
They don't "balance" affordability; they hide the costs via subsidy schemes. The key question for the enviros is how to camouflage the subsidies to make them invisible to the public and avoid accountability for the politicians.
Balancing reliability and emissions reduction? Mainly they will condition people to accept intermittent outages as the new normal.
See #12 for the way California is doing that. The rich pay more for power. The poor get a huge subsidy. Equity, baby!
That’s a pretty ambitious 26 year plan considering we have less than 7 years left.
EC
From one of the linked articles:
“Numbers from the Portland State University Population Research Center indicate a slowing of growth in the state, but also show a drop in the Portland metro area.”
Portland is very liberal, with consequences. Maybe they aren’t counting the homeless who came from California for more generous handouts.
However, I wonder about de-population in general due to Wuhan virus and, worse yet, the mRNA shots. Where I live in Florida, restaurant seating in Carrabba’s restaurant seems more plentiful. Chili’s used to be too loud. Maybe I should give it another try. I remember that every time a dominoe fell to communism in Southeast Asia, new ethnic restaurants opened in the US. I’m sad to say that the silver lining is a mere sliver.
and if the Nazi Klaus Schwab and his World Enslavement Forum gets control of the world it’s over except for the people he keeps as slaves
Communists are really good at solving imaginary problems.
You bet.
1. Steal underpants.
2. ????
3. Profit!
What did Oregon use for light before candles?
Electricity.
These people are just like those in Rush’s song about those dying in a Yugo to save the planet.
Oregon has it easy. There get most of their energy from hydroelectric power what with the Columbia River being right there. They can close down any gas or coal plant, build a bunch of windmills and claim to be green but they are standing on the shoulders of people much greater than themselves who built the dams that could never be built today. It’s the dams that are already there that they will rely on. Hopefully they won’t decide to knock down their dams because that is a possibility.
Environmentalists are like a screaming baby who demands that you give him your phone or he won’t stop crying and will scream louder and louder until you just give it to him to shut him up. You get a child who is quiet until he demands your car keys or some toy. People will give up pretty much anything to shut up the environmentalists.
The rich pay more for power, the poor move to tents on the sidewalks.
Following the path of Germany and the UK. Both have had to retrench significantly to keep the lights on, and even at that haven’t been able to provide affordable energy to industry since destroying their base energy supply.
Prices are doing it. Dinner for two can easily top $200 now.
My buddy lost power in his 4000sq ft home a couple times last week.
He had to heat the home with his gas oven and gas fireplace to keep from freezing pipes.
He was pretty much all in on global warming until that happened.
Now he is thinking he might be wrong.
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