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Net-Zero Madness Is Pushing The U.S. Grid To The Brink Of Collapse

California offers a cautionary tale.

by Chris Talgo
December 11, 2024, 1:47 PM
in Energy, News and Opinion, Politics
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Our nation’s electric grid is unnecessarily in danger from corrupt climate alarmists who worship at the altar of net-zero emissions and greedy, shortsighted utility company CEOs who unflinchingly prioritize profits from the green energy transition scam over the grid’s long-term viability. [emphasis, links added]

Unfortunately, this nexus has put the U.S. electric grid in danger of not being able to supply reliable and affordable electricity for millions of Americans who have become so accustomed to having it that they take it for granted.

What’s more, as artificial intelligence, quantum computing and other emerging technologies that require immense amounts of energy become more common, the grid’s burden will be exacerbated like never before.

This is not speculation. It is an undeniable fact that must be addressed.

California, the vanguard of the climate alarmist movement, serves as a cautionary tale.

In the late 1990s, the Golden State was an early adopter of renewable energy mandates. Unfortunately, California’s rush to embrace intermittent wind and solar power while shunning traditional dependable sources has left the state’s electric grid in shambles.

Since the early 2000s, California has been plagued with rolling blackouts because the state’s grid cannot supply sufficient baseload power.

In the winter of 2000, for example, the self-inflicted energy crisis in California was so acute that the state announced it could not provide power for the lights on the Christmas tree in the state Capitol.

California government workers received an urgent email from then-Gov. Gray Davis advising that they shut down their computers to save electricity.

Incredibly, two decades after this initial crisis, California still experiences frequent brownouts and blackouts because it has become even more dependent on unreliable wind and solar power.

Given the disastrous results of California’s experiment with a grid that is too reliant on undependable wind and solar energy, one would assume that the other 49 states would use this as a lesson in what not to do. But the opposite is taking place.

As of this writing, 13 states have pledged that their grids will run on 100% renewable energy by at least 2040.

While it is certainly true that climate alarmist politicians and activist groups are playing a large role in the asinine transition to green energy, it is even more important to understand that utility companies are paving the way as well.

…the utility “has a financial self-interest in promoting propaganda for wind power, solar power, climate change, and net-zero emissions in order to puff up its overall profits.”

You might wonder why big utility companies would jump on the renewable energy bandwagon, given that wind and solar cannot possibly provide enough consistent energy to fuel modern life. The answer is simple: money.

“The primary reason [that] utilities lobby for closing down coal and natural gas power plants and replacing them with new wind and solar projects is that utilities receive a guaranteed return on investment of approximately 10 percent,” according to a new report by The Heartland Institute.

“In other words, if a utility proposes a $2 billion wind power project to replace a perfectly operational coal power plant, the utility is guaranteed $200 million in profit just for construction and emplacement of the wind turbines,” the report states.

Consequently, the utility “has a financial self-interest in promoting propaganda for wind power, solar power, climate change, and net-zero emissions in order to puff up its overall profits.”

Shamefully, the nation’s biggest utilities are selfishly putting their bottom lines ahead of their obligation to provide affordable and reliable power to their customers.

If you think this is a niche problem that only blue states and cities will have to face, you are sadly mistaken.

“We’re heading for potentially very dire consequences, potentially catastrophic consequences in the United States in terms of the reliability of our grid, and I think that the basic reason is that we’re facing a shortfall of power supply,” warned Federal Energy Regulatory Commission head Mark Christie in 2023.

“The problem is not the addition of wind and solar. The problem is the subtraction of coal and gas and other dispatchable resources that are the ones we need during this transition to keep the lights on. That’s the fundamental problem,” Mr. Christie said.

“The grid has to have power being fed into it every second of every minute of every hour of every day to keep the lights on.”

With President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House soon, we should expect substantial changes in federal energy policy. That alone, however, will not solve the problem.

It is imperative that state lawmakers and public utility commissions stop the net-zero madness and require that utility companies provide reliable and affordable power before energy rationing becomes the new normal.

Read more at Washington Times

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Comments 6

  1. Graham McDonald says:
    5 months ago

    At 3:15 AM, Sunday Dec. 15, black and brown coal was providing 75% of the power generated in eastern Australia. Wind? Just 12%. (Gas and hydro were also contributing.)

    Well worth following.

    https://aemo.com.au/energy-systems/electricity/national-electricity-market-nem/data-nem/data-dashboard-nem#nem-dispatch-overview

  2. Ms Corona Hotspot says:
    6 months ago

    The same everywhere in the West.

    Germany is currently experiencing another dark doldrums thanks to the demolition of nuclear power plants and their replacement by wind and solar scrap, with the price of electricity rising exponentially during these times.

    Meanwhile ISrahell is robbing all gas and oil reserves in the Midddle East, and I bet, when the West is destroyed and cries for oil and gas, the Western political whores will allow the slaves to buy it from ISrahell only.

  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    6 months ago

    Net-Zero is for Nit-Wits and Gore and DiCaprio and both good role Models for this whole Global Warming/Climate Change Scam they have scammed all those who Bought their two Fake Films and Gores two l books Earth in the Balance(Gores thumb is on the Scale)and Assault on Reason(Gore Assaults Reason)and rakes in the dough from the typical Suckers

  4. Rafe Champion says:
    6 months ago

    This “frog in the warming water phenomenon” has been coming for years due to the failure of the meteorologists to report wind droughts and the negligence of wind enthusiasts who didn’t check the reliability of the wind supply.

    A warning from The Energy Realists of Australia

    Around the Western, world subsidised and mandated wind and solar power have been displacing conventional power in the electricity supply. Consequently, most of the grids in the west are moving towards a tipping point where the lights will flicker at nights when the wind is low.

    https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/11/approaching-the-tipping-point/

    Consider the ABC of intermittent energy generated by wind and sun.
    A. Input to the grid must continuously match the demand.
    B. The continuity of RE is broken on nights with little or no wind.
    C. There is no feasible or affordable large-scale storage to bridge the gaps.
    So the green transition is impossible with current storage technology.

    The rate of progress towards the tipping point will be accelerated by the surge of demand due to AI.

    In Australia, the transition to unreliable wind and solar power has just hit the wall while Britain and Germany have passed the tipping point and entered a red zone, keeping the lights on precariously with imports and deindustrialization to reduce demand.

    The meteorologists and energy policy planners in Europe missed the Dunkelflautes that must have been known to mariners and millers for centuries!

    https://www.flickerpower.com/images/The_endless_wind_drought_crippling_renewables___The_Spectator_Australia.pdf

    Demand urgent inquiries to find out why the meteorologists failed to warn us about wind droughts and why energy planners didn’t check the reliability of the wind supply. Imagine embarking on a major irrigation project without forensic investigation of the water supply including historical rainfall figures.

    https://quadrant.org.au/news-opinions/climate-change/no-gusts-no-glory/

  5. Gary Brown says:
    6 months ago

    The whole world in run by corrupt idiots.

    Dec 11, 2024 TITLE: The Benefits of Carbon Dioxide – CO2 By Friends of Science

    Carbon dioxide – CO2 – it demonized by climate activists as something dangerous. In fact, we could not survive without CO2, and there are many benefits of increased CO2 that hardly anyone talks about. This video gives you a few insights. The links to the papers and reports are listed below.
    
     https://youtu.be/9RBwEJ4Rc2g?si=fmlc05Bo9ANHKXzI

  6. Graham McDonald says:
    6 months ago

    California daily generation: https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply

    Keep an eye on “Natural Gas” and “Import”. “Renewables” just aren’t cutting it.

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