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America’s Grid Needs Reliable Power, Not More Muddled Green Schemes

by Kerry Jackson
March 15, 2024, 10:57 AM
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transmission pipelineDoes anyone in the California Capitol subscribe to the Washington Post? Maybe someone on the governor’s staff, or an aide to an influential legislator?

Because the Post published an informative story on March 7 that should be passed around to every lawmaker in Sacramento. [emphasis, links added]

Start with the headline (and a link to the cached version of the article):

“​​Amid explosive demand, America is running out of power.”

Turns out there are “vast swaths” of the country at risk of being unable to produce enough electricity.

Georgia, Arizona, Virginia, and Texas are noted as states where “utilities and regulators” are “grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid.”

The drain is…caused by “electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories” [proliferating] “around the country.”

There’s no mention, however, of the stress that electric vehicle mandates will place on the grid.

California’s 2035 transition to an all-EV fleet, for instance, is going to cause supply to fall 21.1% short of demand.

The calculation behind this figure assumes that residential consumption will remain flat, as it has since 2006, and does not include increased demand from future “electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories.”

Given these factors, that 21.1% shortfall is a conservative estimate.

Another factor to consider is the state’s ability to replace conventional power sources with renewables. To do this, California will have to expand its annual addition of alternative energy sources by 86%.

Can a government that can’t even build a high-speed rail on time (if at all) and nowhere near budget achieve this feat? It doesn’t take a cynic to say, “No way.”

The renewables transition is not following the script nor a favorable trajectory. Energy author and journalist Robert Bryce has been convincingly making this case for some time.

He relentlessly points out that proposed renewables sites are being rejected in increasing numbers, with “community opposition so stout in four Democrat-controlled states,” New York, California, Michigan and Illinois, “have passed legislation stripping local communities of zoning authority over big wind and solar projects.”

He also emphasizes the emerging “reliability implications” of the decarbonization and electrification of the economy, and casts doubt on the feasibility of expanding America’s high-voltage transmission grid, which will be needed to connect remote solar and wind farms to distribution lines in “distant cities.”

“We are told those expansions, totaling tens of thousands of miles of new capacity, must be completed in the next decade or two,” says Bryce.

“​​But there’s a terawatt-size disconnect between the rhetoric and the reality. America isn’t building anything close to the amount of high-voltage transmission capacity that the wind promoters, solar advocates, and spreadsheet jockeys claim is needed.”

Turns out that the “amount of new high-voltage transmission (230kV and above)” being built in the U.S. every year “is flat or declining.”

Meanwhile, the dollars necessary to build “new high-voltage capacity and the components needed to expand the electric grid” are growing, with the per-mile cost nearly tripling from 2008 to 2023.

Read rest at Pacific Research Institute

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  1. DonL says:
    2 years ago

    Good luck building the 230KV lines across the country. Obtaining rights-of-way from land owners will be a challenge, and the utilities or government likely will need to condemn properties, or at least portions of properties, before any construction can begin. It will be a long process (many years) just to obtain the ROW, much less building the lines and substations. The condemnations will certainly antagonize land owners, and if they supported “green” energy before, they likely won’t be too supportive of it after they lose their property rights. Politicians pushing “green” energy and net-zero policies have no clue of the many negative ramifications they’re foisting on the people they allegedly serve.

  2. SPURWING PLOVER says:
    2 years ago

    They need to get back to reality not half-witted solutions from Halfwits who have watched Gore and DiCaprio’s fake films way too many times

  3. Sonnyhill says:
    2 years ago

    Re: local communities zoning authority. Years ago, the Ontario Liberals stripped municipalities of their right to decide if wind turbines were appropriate for them. So the voters stripped the Ontario Liberals of their power. They are now a pathetic third in the polls, gutted.

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