Planning for climate blackouts
February 20th, 2024|82 Comments
We are awash in urgent warnings that the electric power grid is increasingly prone to failure.
Some of these warnings have come from people who actually oversee the grid, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, and various Regional Transmission Operators (RTOs). My fellow skeptics have also been vocal on this growing threat of disaster.
The reason is painfully clear. States and utilities are recklessly shutting down their reliable power plants, especially coal-fired and nuclear. They claim to be replacing these with wind and solar generators, but they only work intermittently, so they are completely unreliable.
Rather than complaining about this madness, or in addition to that, it is time to prepare for the inevitable result. We must plan for blackouts.
https://www.cfact.org/2024/02/20/planning-for-climate-blackouts/
