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100m living in Midwest, West Coast and Southwest face summer power outages
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:30 pm
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:30 pm
Daily Mail
That warning was given by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which released a map showing Michigan, most of Indiana, most of Illinois, and Wisconsin were in trouble.
Also at the highest risk are Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and a small part of East Texas. That high-risk classification means that the existing power grid is 'potentially insufficient to meet peak load during both normal and extreme conditions,' according to NERC.
Every state that sits further west of that area is at an elevated risk, according to NERC. That means power plants should have sufficient resources 'to meet peak load during normal conditions, but potentially insufficient during extreme conditions.
Moreover, traditional power plants are shutting down faster than renewable energy sources can fill, creating a power gap that elevates risks in times of need, such as during scorching summers.
Low wind speeds could also trigger blackouts
On top of that, the coal and natural gas plants that are left are running harder than before, raising the risk that they'll malfunction.
That warning was given by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), which released a map showing Michigan, most of Indiana, most of Illinois, and Wisconsin were in trouble.
Also at the highest risk are Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and a small part of East Texas. That high-risk classification means that the existing power grid is 'potentially insufficient to meet peak load during both normal and extreme conditions,' according to NERC.
Every state that sits further west of that area is at an elevated risk, according to NERC. That means power plants should have sufficient resources 'to meet peak load during normal conditions, but potentially insufficient during extreme conditions.
Moreover, traditional power plants are shutting down faster than renewable energy sources can fill, creating a power gap that elevates risks in times of need, such as during scorching summers.
Low wind speeds could also trigger blackouts
On top of that, the coal and natural gas plants that are left are running harder than before, raising the risk that they'll malfunction.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:33 pm to MrLSU
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:35 pm to MrLSU
USA is now a 3rd world county
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:35 pm to MrLSU
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Moreover, traditional power plants are shutting down faster than renewable energy sources can fill, creating a power gap that elevates risks in times of need, such as during scorching summers.
This is the problem.
I’ll never forget that professor from aTm saying that it wasn’t wind and solar’s fault that Texas lost power because you need to build into your system the redundancy/excess capacity to handle when wind and solar don’t produce. He actually thought places would just have 50% capacity sitting idle.
Why are we shutting power plants down BEFORE we have the capacity of green energy online? Oh that’s right, thank you activist environmentalist and politicians. Great job
This post was edited on 5/19/22 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:38 pm to MrLSU
Definitely need to buy electric cars.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:43 pm to MrLSU
Glad we have our own hydro grid
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:45 pm to MrLSU
Louisiana isn’t the worst at EVERYTHING
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:46 pm to MrLSU
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highest risk are Louisiana
Don't look now, but Louisiana's nuclear plants are coming to the end of their originally intended life cycle as well.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:46 pm to Goldbondage
Exactly. Let's try to run the interstate highway system on electric vehicles.
Gonna be a lot of angry people in this country this summer with $5 gas and power outages.
Gonna be a lot of angry people in this country this summer with $5 gas and power outages.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:47 pm to toratiger
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USA is now a 3rd world county
Balkanization is coming. I doubt it can be stopped at this point
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:48 pm to MrLSU
Every Democrat politician should be ridden out of town on a rail.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:53 pm to MrLSU
quote:
Moreover, traditional power plants are shutting down faster than renewable energy sources can fill, creating a power gap that elevates risks in times of need, such as during scorching summers.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:54 pm to MrLSU
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That high-risk classification means that the existing power grid is 'potentially insufficient to meet peak load during both normal and extreme conditions,' according to NERC.
Let's go to electric vehicles now.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:55 pm to MrLSU
$40 billion to Ukraine
Bipartisan effort
America Last
Bipartisan effort
America Last
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:55 pm to Bunk Moreland
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Gonna be a lot of angry people in this country this summer with $5 gas and power outages
$5 dollar gas? They are recalibrating the gas pumps across the country to possibly hit $10 dollars a gallon later this summer.
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:58 pm to MrLSU
What this administration is doing to this country is enraging me. Literally destroying it on purpose.
I don’t get why either. They don’t give a shite about anyone
I don’t get why either. They don’t give a shite about anyone
Posted on 5/19/22 at 7:59 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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Every Democrat politician should be Executed publicly
Fify
ETA after being found guilty of treason
This post was edited on 5/19/22 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:17 pm to SoFla Tideroller
They have to think they won’t lose another election and face consequences, right? Or am I being skeptical?
Posted on 5/19/22 at 8:18 pm to toratiger
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USA is now a 3rd world county
no i think we skipped right passed that to being a 5th world shite hole country
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