After the summer blackouts, California may wake up
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
After this 2021 Summer of Rolling Power Blackouts finishes, California may actually wake up and realize that mandating the increased use of intermittent, unreliable electricity from wind and solar, while also reducing reliable energy from hydrocarbons and nuclear, is a disaster.
One Socialist strategy is to “simply pay consumers more to use less during peak events.”
Insanity.
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“Maybe it’s time to admit that the whole “green” energy push is one big farce.
Six months after a historic failure in the Texas power grid which collapsed when various “renewable” sources of electricity failed concurrently and dragged down the entire network, California – that liberal utopia powered by renewable power and/or unicorn flatulence – realizes it is about to get Enroned, and has made an urgent request for additional power supplies to avoid blackouts this summer, an extraordinary step after suffering from rolling outages less than a year ago.
State energy officials asked the California Independent System Operator, which runs most of the grid, to contract for additional power capacity for July and August on concern it won’t be able to meet demand during the evening when solar production fades, according to a joint statement Thursday from grid, utility and energy agencies. They didn’t say how much more power is needed but one can guess it will be a lot.
… “The short-term strategy needs to be centered around incentivizing demand reductions instead of increasing supply,” said Abe Stanway, co-founder of Amperon Holdings Inc., which provides analysis to utilities and power traders. “The best way to reduce uncertainty around demand resources is to simply pay consumers more to use less during peak events.” …