Exhibit A for my rolling blackout warning in California

Just a reminder, I’ve been saying repeatedly for months that I expect rolling power blackouts in California and other states that try to reduce reliable oil & gas production while increasing their dependency on *intermittent* electricity from wind and solar.

Exhibit A:

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“It appears as though California’s plans to become an environmental and socialist utopia are running face first into reality.

The latest dose of reality came this week when the state, facing triple digit temperatures, began to “fret” about pressure on the state’s power grid as a result of everybody charging their electric vehicles all at once.

The state’s power grid operators have been telling residents to “relieve pressure” from the grid by charging their EVs at off-peak hours, Newsweek wrote.”

zerohedge.com ↗

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