Presented without comment: NERC’s summer assessment is bleak
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
Presented without comment.
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“The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has released its latest reliability assessment for the summer of 2022 and, to put it mildly, the news is not good.
● In far too many states, the power grid is already nearly at full capacity, and in the next few months, that capacity will be exceeded.
This isn’t a question of “if” or really even “when.” It’s just a fact. ●
Industry experts know this and have been trying to sound the alarm for several years.
Critics are trying to place the blame on climate change (as they do with everything else) in the form of extended droughts and heatwaves.
Those factors definitely exacerbate the problem, but this was going to happen in the next year or so anyway.
… The federal government can not afford to simply ignore this problem and hope it goes away or miss the warning signs as they did with the current baby formula shortage and so many other things where the Biden administration claimed they aren’t “mind readers.”
There will be no planes flying in extra electricity from Europe.
● There is no emergency federal reserve of electricity that the President can release with an executive order.
When demand for electricity exceeds supply, the utility companies will either have to begin a series of rolling blackouts in all of the affected states or the grid will suffer crippling damage and be down for months. …”