re: Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power

America failing to lead the charge on nuclear energy is such a travesty.

Its such a triple whammy facing our energy providers (and they arent helping).

For starters, peak load is going down at a lot of providers. Confusing, right? Where it gets hard is how to meet that peak load. Thats where you get crap like ESG, retiring nukes and coal, and greedy former politicians involved.

See, some of the former pols have their hands in these solar companies. Then, low and behold, they are suddenly talking about how important solar is to include in an IRP. Furthermore, ESG pressure from investors doubles down and demands to know how you are "diversifying" your portfolio.

Nukes are getting old too. Some you are lucky to refurb and keep up and running while not going broke, others, like Diablo in Cali, are just the devil and need to be taken off because a politician says so.

All of a sudden, what was once a 5% max renewables IRP is now closer to 20-30%. With less and less power coming from reliable areas like nuke, coal, and gas.

Less power needed, but its "harder" to reliably generate it so you get this mess we are going to live through in the next 20 years.

I blame the environmentalist wackos of the past 30 years - and dumbass politicians who caved to their demands. Anyone with a normal, functioning brain could have seen this coming a decade ago.

Enron won’t have to ratfrick Cali power for the next big energy cost explosion to happen.

We have gone decades without any real extensive addition of power plants while closing out nuclear, coal, and others which are aging out or aren’t seen as clean enough.

Sometimes I think rolling blackouts might not be a bad thing.

Any large corporation is at the mercy of politicians.

Doubly so when they can sic the EPA and other groups on you at whim.



The Senate is trying to have hearings on all the mergers and acquisitions within the oil and gas industry right now. Ostensibly for “fairness” reasons but more likely because it shows huge oil companies are buying up every company possible for the Permian Basin area to get all of that fracked oil and gas.

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An industry insiderr told me Bitcoin Miners are a problem

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Thats what you get when you shut down coal plants in lieu of solar and wind.

They are buying up farm land all over the Arkansas delta and putting solar panels up. I mean thousands and thousands of acres.

We always have a problem if you listen to those people. The power grid has some problems, but it always has some problems, however, induction stoves ain't part of it.

Time to start mining coal again.