Green California Faces Dark Future

[rangerrebew]

Green California Faces Dark Future

    Date: 21/08/20
    Robert Bryce, Forbes

Californians now rely on an electricity network that looks and acts more like a grid you’d find in Beirut or Africa than ones in Europe or the United States.

The blackouts that hit California over the past few days exposed the fragility of one of the most-expensive and least-reliable electric grids in North America. They also show that California’s grid can’t handle the load it has now, much less accommodate the enormous amount of new demand that would have to be met if the state attempts to “electrify everything.”

The push to electrify everything would prohibit the use of natural gas in buildings, electrify transportation, and require the grid to run solely on renewables (and maybe, a dash of nuclear). But attempting to electrify the entire California economy will further increase the cost of energy at the very same time that the state’s electricity rates are soaring. That will result in yet-higher energy costs for low- and middle-income Californians.

https://www.thegwpf.com/green-california-faces-dark-tragedy/

[Cyber Liberty]

Gee, if only anybody could had predicted this.....

[libertybele]

....Californians now rely on an electricity network that looks and acts more like a grid you’d find in Beirut or Africa than ones in Europe or the United States.

DEMS sure know how to screw things up royally.  Something to be said for investing in a good generator - Lord only knows what our country is going to be like should the DEMS win the WH.

[DB]

Gee, if only anybody could had predicted this.....

And no mention of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant being scheduled to be shut down in the next few years. All due to impossible environmental demands that have been piled on it. That single plant produces about 8% of California's electricity...

[DB]

....Californians now rely on an electricity network that looks and acts more like a grid you’d find in Beirut or Africa than ones in Europe or the United States.

DEMS sure know how to screw things up royally.  Something to be said for investing in a good generator - Lord only knows what our country is going to be like should the DEMS win the WH.

My last house in California had a 40kW automatic standby generator powered by propane (using a 500 gallon below ground tank). It was used multiple times a year every year I was there...

[Cyber Liberty]

And no mention of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant being scheduled to be shut down in the next few years. All due to impossible environmental demands that have been piled on it. That single plant produces about 8% of California's electricity...

That's an economic disaster waiting to happen.  Watch them do the actual closing of the plant a month after a heat wave, so it will take at least 9 months to crash into a wall.

[DB]

That's an economic disaster waiting to happen.  Watch them do the actual closing of the plant a month after a heat wave, so it will take at least 9 months to crash into a wall.

Diablo Canyon is in the California county I use to live in. It literally provided billions of dollars to the economy via taxes, employees, etc. There's going to be serious trouble there when it closes. And then there's the 8% loss of generating capacity on top of that...