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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Yes Mr. GG2 knows how to build wood gasification generator and you can actually buy one if you don’t want to do it yourself.
Cool!
I’m building a downdraft gasifier primarily for making charcoal, but it should also work if I need to run an engine off of it.
The major threat to the power grid is the demonrat party. They are the ones closing power plants.
Power shortages are to be expected when you shut down reliable fossil-fueled continuous duty electric generation and replace it with smaller amounts of intermittent “green” electricity that depends on the whims of nature.
I’m sure Al Gore’s mansion will not be one that suffers from any black-outs or power shortages.
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