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Energy Commissioner Warns of ‘Major Threats’ to Power Grid
Epoch Times ^ | May 19, 2023 Updated: May 19, 2023 | John Haughey

Posted on 05/19/2023 9:32:21 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan

With a hotter than usual summer projected, federal agencies are warning utilities of an "elevated risk" of power outages across two-thirds of North America between June and September.

Hope is a powerful energy, but it won’t keep the air conditioner on when summer temperatures soar and demand for electricity skyrockets, causing an overburdened electrical grid to grind to a stop.

Yet that seems to be the Biden administration’s plan in addressing warnings that nine North American regional electrical grids face an “elevated risk” of power outages this summer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark Christie maintains.

“I take it as, ‘We hope we can through the summer. We think we have a chance if the weather is normal,’” he said during a May 18 FERC meeting. “We hope we get all good news this summer.”

Christie was critiquing the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Policy & Innovation and Office of Electric Reliability responses to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC)’s annual summer reliability assessment that forecasts brown-outs and black-outs across two-thirds of North America between June and September if there are “wide-area” heat waves, drought, and wildfires.

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KEYWORDS: collapse; deaths; green; grid
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Climate Catastrophists are already doing more economic and social damage than actual climate change (if indeed there is any) can ever do in the next 500 years. But that's a feature, not a bug.

Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" meme is a false crisis, invented out of thin air by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome as a tool to force a drastic die-off of human populations by suppressing Western European culture and technology. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.

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

1 posted on 05/19/2023 9:32:21 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

What does our esteemed Mistress of Energy Jennifer Granholm have to say about this?


2 posted on 05/19/2023 9:33:38 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Hope is not an Energy Strategy.


3 posted on 05/19/2023 9:36:19 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Yo-Yo

The Commissioner needs to advise Mayorkas of his concerns to prevent terrorists from walking into the USA.


4 posted on 05/19/2023 9:42:30 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Yo-Yo

Jennifer says “Embrace the suck”. She has no idea how to actually do anything.


5 posted on 05/19/2023 9:44:57 AM PDT by ken in texas
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To: Yo-Yo

I’m happily looking at our nearly new generator we bought in the Fall. 😉


6 posted on 05/19/2023 9:50:04 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: ken in texas
Jennifer says “Embrace the suck”. She has no idea how to actually do anything.

So then nothing's changed since she was my Governess of Michigan?

7 posted on 05/19/2023 9:50:47 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Yep we put ours in last year to get ahead of this. They are already talking rolling blackouts even before regulating ICE vehicles off the roads. Keep voting for the rats morons


8 posted on 05/19/2023 9:54:38 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Yep, suppress the nation’s who can solve the world’s problems.
If they want to depopulate, go to the turd world of Islam, the over population experts.
Don’t target the world’s solution providers.

Just shows how clever these asshat ‘leaders’ are.
And how Biden and his obamanites fit right in.
Its an obamanite war on the west, make no mistake on that.


9 posted on 05/19/2023 9:57:10 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: gibsonguy

If it really should get bad which it likely won’t we’ll just temporarily de-camp to our rural compound where the generator will run our whole 38 ft RV AC and all. We just installed a portable AC that doesn’t pull the watts our roof mounted one does.


10 posted on 05/19/2023 9:58:32 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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I’m happily looking at our nearly new generator we bought in the Fall. 😉

And there's the rub. Getting rid of "fossil" fuels will negate your generator. No gasoline? No generator. No natural gas? No generator. No propane? No generator. No electricity? Well, shucks.

11 posted on 05/19/2023 10:01:10 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Well it won’t happen this summer. Plenty of gas and propane. 😉


12 posted on 05/19/2023 10:02:42 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Easily fixable

Drill baby drill


13 posted on 05/19/2023 10:09:39 AM PDT by Nifster ( I see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Our Solar system w Tesla battery is for independence, not economics....


14 posted on 05/19/2023 10:29:33 AM PDT by G Larry (The Deep State is NOT repairable by mankind.......)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
We can do it!

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15 posted on 05/19/2023 10:40:48 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

If it can fail, it will under Biden.


16 posted on 05/19/2023 10:42:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Biggest threat? Moronic libs and their insane policies are the biggest threat to all of humanity.


17 posted on 05/19/2023 10:55:00 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: Chad C. Mulligan; FrogMom; dayglored; Conan the Librarian; McGruff; TornadoAlley3; Eagles6; ...
Ping Me When the Internet Goes Down ping

If anyone wants on or off the Ping Me When the Internet Goes Down pinglist, kindly FReepmail me. Thanks!

18 posted on 05/19/2023 11:05:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: FlyingEagle

Remember how O’Bammy’s Hope-y/Changy turned out.


19 posted on 05/19/2023 11:20:25 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: IYAS9YAS; Georgia Girl 2

Check driveonwood.com for ways to run a vehicle or generator on home-grown fuels.


20 posted on 05/19/2023 11:25:01 AM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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