While some major cities are already seeing their lights go off due to electricity use overload, grid operators and energy advocates gave a warning to states that are closing their coal-fired power plants even quicker than they can build new ones.
“Any plans to remove nuclear plants or coal power plants or natural gas plants that are slated to be closed, that has to be completely suspended,” Power the Future executive director Daniel Turner told FOX Business’ Jeff Flock Tuesday. [bold, links added]
Eighty coal-fired power plants are slated to close across 14 states in the next six years, Flock mentioned in his report, which poses a threat as some blackouts have already begun and coal and nuclear power still source 41% of the country’s electricity, according to the Energy Information Administration.
“Many coal plants and nuclear plants can come back online,” Turner pointed out. “They’ve maybe been turned off and decommissioned, but they haven’t been torn down.”
Joe Petrowski, the former CEO of Cumberland Farms Gulf Oil Group, claimed the plant closures resulting from a green energy push will cause the “next big crisis” for Americans on “Mornings with Maria” Tuesday.
“It’s going to make what’s happening in liquid fuels look like a speed bump in the shopping parking lot compared to what will happen in electricity,” Petrowski further cautioned on the issue.
“We’re shutting down coal plants, which I’m for,” he continued. “We’re decommissioning nuclear because people just don’t want nuclear in their backyard, even though the French get 85 to 90% and natural gas is now $7, going to $10. So we are going to have a huge spike in electricity prices.”
As the Biden administration pushes for clean and renewable energy, the rest of the world still runs on coal, with 37% of global electricity being fueled by this natural resource.
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Well, when you have an Administration & legislators that have little or no understanding of energy imperatives & commodity markets, you get growing CHAOS…just that simple. So, if we want to continue to see energy prices skyrocketing & our electric grid de-stabilizing towards collapse, just keep doing what we are doing. I’m sure our enemies (i.e. China, Russia, Iran, et al) are getting a good “belly laugh” at our foolishness…
The level of incompetency would be hilarious if they were not in charge of the largest economy in the world. Their failure to understand the basic concepts of free markets was demonstrated when they called the CEO’s of energy companies and told them to lower their fuel prices. That simple. Just lower them, and share the profits with consumers. Yikes.
How astonishing that the grid would weaken if
we shut off the generators.
H’m
I wonder what would happen if we diverted
Lake Erie water away from Niagara Falls.
Just speculating.
So how well will those electric vehicles run without the electrical grid to recharge them? Oh sorry boss, I can’t make it to work today because we had a brown out and it messed up my charging cycle and now we have no power here at all and all of the charging stations have long lines waiting or are blacked out.