Posted on 12/26/2023 5:25:19 PM PST by george76
NERC is a nonprofit organization that oversees the reliability and security of the North American bulk power system. It uses a results-based approach. After conducting their ten-year assessment, NERC sent a grim warning of our energy future. We face a serious electricity shortage beginning in the next few years that will exist for years to come.
This isn’t news. It has been clear for some time that the elimination of fossil fuels before there is an adequate power supply to take its place will endanger the safety and security of Americans. It is also obvious that this has been engineered to happen this way. The people planning a lack of supply ahead of replacement electricity sources are smart. They know what they’re doing. Their policies will destroy our national security and will endanger the lives of our people. It will seriously damage our wealth as a nation.
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NERC did a 10-year assessment. They found that during peak demand, as government policies push electrification of everything, the planned retirement of 83 gigawatts of fossil fuel and nuclear generation over the next ten years creates blackout risks.
Most regions have enough electricity supply in normal weather, but in extreme conditions, when you really need the energy, there is an increased risk of blackouts. The Midwest and Central States could see power supply shortfalls during normal peak operations.
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New gas capacity is needed, and we’re not getting it.
A spokesperson for MISO said the grid operator concurs with NERC’s key conclusions and recommendations.
NERC’s reliability assessment is “deeply troubling,” said Michelle Bloodworth, president and CEO of America’s Power, representing coal generators.
“Despite several years of warnings about the possibility of electricity shortages in many parts of the country, the risk of electricity shortages has grown worse,” she said, pointing to coal retirements, policies developed by the Environmental Protection Agency, and “dangerous subsidies for unreliable sources of energy” as the cause.
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The National Mining Association said coal retirements are “leaving grids across the country short of the fuel-secure, dispatchable generation they so desperately need.”
“Surging power demand, the rapid loss of dispatchable generating capacity, and the towering hurdles to connecting reliable alternatives and their enabling infrastructure are the on-the-ground reality that should shape our energy policy,” NMA President and CEO Rich Nolan said in a statement.
“NERC’s latest assessment paints another grim picture of our nation’s energy future as demand for electricity soars and the supply of always-available generation declines,” said Jim Matheson, CEO of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.
“Nine states saw rolling blackouts last December as the demand for electricity exceeded available supply. And proposals like the EPA’s power plant rule will greatly compound the problem,” he said. “Absent a major shift in state and federal energy policy, this is the reality we will face for years to come.”
NERC’s report noted the threat of “environmental regulations and energy policies that are overly rigid.”
Our political leaders hate us.
I beg to differ. It does not create risk. It creates blackout CERTAINTY.
The night Gavin Newsom announced to supporters outside that he had survived the recall election:
“Remember, everything happens first in California and then happens all over the country.”
Whoopee./S
Paper ballots it is, then.
Shorting the Grid by Meredith Angwin.
Long-time power industry insider shows where the bodies are buried,
I more and more am not looking forward to living a long life past now. Age 77. At least we had the “good old days” before the dark hell of Chinese Communist style dominance over us after November, 2024. Feel sorry for little kids who won’t know what freedom was and what individuality and being proud of being an American meant.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
― Ronald Reagan
Biden’s order could let China control US electric grid
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/bidens-order-could-let-china-control-u-s-electric-grid
Oh like they have in glorious S Africa?
I have been in the Electric Power Industry for forty years. It was obvious 30 years ago.
The EPA worked hard to eliminate the exemption for small old coal burners to be update to current regulations.
It is economical impractical spend millions updating a 50 megawatt plant to current EPA standards when it will only operate on a few days a year when the load is at its highest.
Instead the utilities spent those millions on gas turbine plants that could be built and operated without any emissions controls at all and could be fired up and loaded remotely within a few hours.
But now even those plants are under attack because the standards have changed and even a plant that produces no other waste gas than CO2 is under the EPA’s attack.
The EPA is a rogue agency that only exist now to destroy industry.
Third-world countries suffer from rolling blackouts.
Gosh, just like my days in Baghdad. Oh, sweet nostalgia.
Fox News just practiced a blackout on Kurt Schlicter tonight by cutting his feed as soon as he started saying that Palestinians needed to be taken out.
These woke lib whatever they are communists may be smiling now, but it will NOT go down good for them in the end. Think Mussolini.....
NOWHERE TO HIDE IF AMERICA IS LOST!
WE’RE ON THE BRINK AS YOU READ THIS!
(5 MINUTES)
https://youtu.be/dqw7kXG0kxU
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I have a copy of that. On the “must read” pile.
Bkmk
I worked on GE’s frame E prototype 200MW that went to Virginia Power. GE had issues with the ceramic coatings on the blades forty years ago.
From what I’ve heard blade erosion is still an issue for combustion turbines.
Ergo welcome to third world America.
When did that happen as I just checked his Twitter account and he hasn’t made any mention of it and he’s pretty active on his account posting several things as recently as 20 minutes ago
The GOPe will get on that immediately. /s
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