Owen Klinsky
Contributor
Hundreds of millions of Americans risk experiencing power shortages this winter if weather conditions are harsh, according to a new report published by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), a power grid watchdog.
Nearly all residents of the Northeast, Texas and Midwest could face energy shortfalls in the event of a colder-than-usual winter, the NERC report states. The lack of grid reliability is driven largely by growing electricity demand as well as the replacement of coal-fired and older natural gas-fired generators with energy-limited resources such as solar power. (RELATED: ‘Animal Protein Overconsumption’: UN Climate Confab Attendees Urge Countries To Implement Tax On Meat)
“Foreseeable extreme cold temperatures have the potential to push the existing natural gas supply infrastructure to maximum capacity,” the report warns. “Serving winter load is becoming more challenging and complex as coal-fired and older natural gas-fired generators retire and are replaced by variable and energy-limited resources.”
NERC’s 2024–2025 WRA finds much of North America at an elevated risk of #energy shortfalls in extreme conditions. No areas are identified as having a high risk and all areas are expected to have adequate resources under normal #winter peak load conditions. https://t.co/TOPhkCZumt pic.twitter.com/kANLz4dasl
— NERC (@NERC_Official) November 14, 2024
The expansion of power-hungry data centers has led to a surge in electricity demand, according to the NERC study, with consulting firm Bain projecting utilities could have to increase their annual power generation by as much as 26% by 2028. Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration has sought to reduce natural gas and coal-fired power generation, finalizing a rule in April requiring that existing coal plants use carbon capture and storage to control 90% of their carbon emissions by 2032 if they want to stay running past 2039, and that certain new natural gas plants cut their emissions 90% by 2032, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Grid operators have requested the EPA nix the power plant rule in order to protect long-term energy dependability, with four major regional operators filing an amicus brief in support of red states’ legal challenge against the rule, stating it would jeopardize the grid’s ability to reliably meet American energy needs.
Mark Christie — a top power grid regulator — wrote a letter to lawmakers in August claiming the EPA rule could be “catastrophic.”
“If the EPA’s new power plant rule survives court challenge, it will force the retirements of nearly all remaining coal generation plants and will prevent the construction of vitally needed new combined-cycle baseload gas generation,” Christie wrote. “This loss of vitally needed dispatchable generation resources will be catastrophic.”
The EPA and Federal Electric Reliability Corporation did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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California will save the nation with all its solar. hahahahahahhahahhha
The “Biden” crew flipping the Supreme Court the bird again. West Virginia v EPA was on nearly this issue, and the “major issues” doctrine forbade such things without Congressional approval. But that crew was in open contempt over the student loan giveaway, so it is their usual procedure.
The areas mentioned are in big trouble! 😉 The US Climate Prediction Center (CPC) long term chart says it will likely be warmer, January through March. See:
Climate Prediction Center – Seasonal Outlook
This GFS model was posted and discussed today, I hope it’s
wrong.
https://x.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1858666650653860283
suckers. i still have my 880 watt (rated at 10 kelvin) solar array. I’ll be fine. If it drops to -20F I may have to put off Bora Bora for a tear or two. If only Excel would bump my kWH price to 0.45 so I could get there sooner.
Quite aside from it seeming like a ridiculous concept, the last stuff I read, a while ago, about carbon dioxide capture and storage said there were no successful projects. Capturing CO2 from various sources can be done at significant expense and energy expenditure, and using that CO2 in various useful ways has been done, but no plan for long term “storage” that takes it permanently out of play has had any useful success. Is that still true?
I release that some CO2 injection into wells to improve oil or gas extraction leaves some of it in the ground, possibly for a long time, but that doesn’t really seem to be the idea for CCS.
So yet again an anti-citizen administration has gone to the end of its term before the truth comes out. Everyone with any understanding knew that pumping the grid full of renewables would push prices through the roof and eventually crash the grid. Plenty of people were trying to tell the media that, right from the start of the Biden administration. The government and media must have colluded to suppress the information. Donald Trump has a lot to fix in just 4 years, and will have a failed grid to do it with. He has promised to prosecute officials who abused their positions during Joe Biden’s term – my goodness that’s going to be an awful lot of prosecutions., but please can he include the media too?
Meanwhile, Greenland COOLED from 2000-2019
New Study: Greenland Cooled by -0.11°C From 2000-2019 – Including All Ice Free And Ice Covered Areas
What a surprise – not. It is the same everywhere in the west where intermittent renewables have been promoted and subsidised.
“Hundreds of millions of Americans risk experiencing power shortages this winter if weather conditions are harsh … “
Which will be blamed on Global Warming.
Trump arrives not a moment too soon!
The to give the EPA an enema!
I hope Trump focuses right away on this issue of grid dependability.
STORY TIP
THE CLIMATE CHANGE STORY TOLD BY ICE CORES – 4:09
Jorgen Peder Steffensen – Curator
hat do ice cores tell us about the history of climate change and the present trend? This video explains one perspective – arguably the most accurate one. And if you skip to 2:25, you will see the huge error we have made and the assumptions and extrapolations based on that error.
Overflowing with hypocrisy. Just look at the menu offered.