More Green Blackouts Ahead As Biden’s Regulators Ignore Grid’s Vulnerability
wind turbine deicingYou’d think the Texas blackouts would trigger some soul-searching about the vulnerability of America’s electrical grid. Not in today’s hothouse of climate politics.
The Biden Administration is already moving to stop an examination of grid vulnerability to promote unreliable renewable energy sources.
Regulators have been warning for years that the grid is becoming shakier as cheap natural gas and heavily subsidized renewables replace steady coal and nuclear baseload power.
“The nation’s power grid will be stressed in ways never before experienced†due to “an unprecedented resource-mix change,†the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warned in 2011.
It added: “Environmental regulations are shown to be the number one risk to reliability over the next one to five years.â€
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