Blackouts during heat waves are dangerous, but blaming such failures on climate change instead of on poorly managed energy policies and fragile grids dominated by weather-dependent renewables is a complete…
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Blackouts as Bliss? Why Some Celebrate Power Outages as a Return to ‘Connection’
LA-based climate campaigner Michael Mezzatesta, self-described economics and climate educator, has a new one for the climate debate: blackouts are good, bringing us together! He states:
National suicide – a rejection or just a reprieve for the USA?
Here’s the inescapable reality. Wind, solar and grid-scale battery power are not clean, green, renewable or sustainable. These installations and transmission lines blanket scenic, cropland and habitats. They slaughter raptors…
Britain Could Face Months-Long Blackouts Because of Net Zero
Britain’s rush to Net Zero could leave it vulnerable to months-long blackouts, as reliance on intermittent renewables strains the grid, escalating costs and jeopardising energy security. The Telegraph has more.
When Hackers Target the GridThe unseen threat to your energy supply
In other words, it doesn’t really matter if your local utility has top-tier cybersecurity if their upstream partners don’t bother. One weak link, and the whole chain shakes.
UK Losing Wind Gamble a Warning for World
Citizens of the U.K. have missed serious power blackouts by a whisker. But recent events highlight the dangers of prioritizing ideology over practicality and serve as a warning to those…
Will Blackouts Come to Britain?
Freddie Sayers is joined by energy analyst Kathryn Porter to break down the National Grid numbers and find out how Net Zero might cause blackouts by 2030.
How Close Were We to Blackouts Yesterday?
It does not take a genius to work out why? We shut down more than 20 GW of reliable coal capacity, and thought we could replace it with medieval technology…
America needs a subzero blackout prevention program
Cold kills and America is at great risk of deadly subzero blackouts. Renewables are part of the problem but gas is the biggest part. We now know that the supply…
Jo Nova: $650m in renewable energy didn’t save Broken Hill from days of blackouts after a storm islanded it
Nova’s story raises critical questions about energy policy and the realistic capacity of renewables to provide energy security. While her perspective is skeptical of the efficacy of renewables in their…
America’s Power Grid Could Buckle Under Sweltering Summer Heat, Watchdog Warns
Considerable portions of the U.S. are facing heightened risks of blackouts over the summer months, according to a new report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).
A Federal Power Grid Would be Everyone’s Worst Nightmare
What may be a dream come true for central planners ought to be everybody else’s nightmare.
Electric Vehicles and Africa: No Place for Rich Boys Toys
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the push for electric vehicles is a diversion from the region’s more urgent problems.
Aussie Energy & Climate Minister: Don’t Expect 3.4GW of New Renewables to Provide Grid Stability
Aussie Energy & Climate Minister: “I don’t see we can put all the pressure on Renewables for Stability and Reliability”, blames Climate Change for Hot Summers.
The electric grid needs good failure mode analysis
Uncontrolled blackouts may be unpredictable, but they can still be planned for to some degree.
Labour’s Energy Plans Will Lead To (UK) Blackouts
The model also finds that there would be a shortage of power for 48% of the year, and a surplus for 52%.
Grid asks factories to use less energy next winter under blackout prevention plan
This move is, to all intents and purposes, rationing. And the reason is quite clear – the closure of nearly all of our coal power capacity.
The South African Energy Crisis: A Battle between Power Needs and Environmentalists
…the vehement objections from environmental groups continue to cause gridlock driving the South African economy into a ditch.
South African Energy Contractors Accused of Stealing Coal and Shipping it to Europe
How low will they go? Europe has been accused receiving stolen shipments of high quality coal from Africa, while they push Africa to embrace the useless renewables which have failed…
The Penetration Problem. Part II: Will the Inflation Reduction Act Cause a Blackout?
We are seeing blackouts and system problems all over the world now, unlike in the past. There is a common factor for most – high penetration of intermittent asynchronous wind…
South Africa: Warmism Creates Blackouts
Eskom’s promise to reduce coal-fired generation over the next 30 years threatens to drive South Africa’s 62 million people further into an abyss of rolling blackouts and attendant economic damage.
Biden’s Most Preposterous Lie Is Too Much Even for The Washington Post
But when we located the transcript of Biden’s conversation with utility executives on Feb. 9, we found no reference to $500 in utility savings. The figure was also not mentioned…
Biden’s climate policies realized: New York’s ‘Home Energy Crisis’ – ‘More than a million households are 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an avg. of $1,427.71 in debt, & shut-offs are increasing’
More than 471,629 disconnection notices were sent out in April 2022 for residential customers across New York State, with Orange and Rockland counties leading the way, with 79 shutoffs that…
Climate Change Weekly #435: Power Off? Grid Operators Expect More Outages
The Heartland Institute has repeatedly explained why prematurely shuttering economically viable power plants and replacing them with wind and solar invariably leads to greater profits for utilities and higher prices…
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