NERC ducks extreme cold grid threats
December 27th, 2023
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has released its “2023 Long-Term Reliability Assessment”, a 10-year-ahead look at threats to grid reliability. Not surprisingly, they see a lot of growing threats around the country.
Unfortunately, they ignore the greatest threat of all, which is blackouts caused by extreme, deadly cold weather. They also have ridiculously low projections for renewables, which will crowd out reliable generation. The looming, destructive “energy transition” is not considered.
NERC starts off well enough, recognizing the dual threats of renewables and extreme cold in general terms in the Executive Summary. Then, their detailed analysis ignores both.
The Executive Summary says this:
https://www.cfact.org/2023/12/27/nerc-ducks-extreme-cold-grid-threats/
