Thanks to ‘forced renewable energy’ push by Biden regime
JD Heyes — News Target Feb 27, 2023
A major energy producer is predicting rolling power outages and sustained blackouts over the next few years thanks to the Biden regime forcing the country into relying more on renewable energy and less on fossil fuels, just like Natural News founder and editor Mike Adams, along with top radio host and broadcaster Alex Jones, have been predicting.
“The warnings keep coming that the force-fed energy transition to renewable fuels is destabilizing the U.S. electric grid, but is anyone in government paying attention? Another S.O.S. came Friday in an ominous report from PJM Interconnection, one of the nation’s largest grid operators,” The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board noted late last week.
The PJM report outlines a forecast of power supply and demand across the 13 eastern states within its territory, covering a population of 65 million, up to 2030. Its primary finding suggests that renewable sources are being developed at a slower pace than fossil-fuel power plants are retiring, which could result in energy “imbalances.” This is a tactful way of indicating that power shortages and blackouts are likely to occur, the board noted.
Typically, PJM generates a surplus of power due to its extensive fossil-fuel fleet, which it exports to nearby power grids in the Midwest and Northeast. When wind power declined in the Midwest and central states last week, PJM helped bridge the gap between supply and demand, thereby ensuring that the lights remained on, the WSJ board continued.
This is why PJM’s latest predictions are alarming, as the organization anticipates a significant decrease in its power reserves as coal and natural gas plants continue to retire, said the board. The report indicates that approximately 40,000 megawatts (MW) of power generation, equivalent to powering 30 million homes, may be retired by 2030. This represents approximately 21% of PJM’s existing generation capacity
As per the report, the majority of anticipated power-plant retirements are a result of policy-driven factors. For instance, approximately 10,500 MW of fossil-fuel generation is expected to shut down due to the high costs associated with complying with Environmental Protection Agency regulations, which include a proposed “good neighbor rule” that is anticipated to be implemented next month.
The report highlights that utility companies’ ESG (environmental, social, and governance) commitments are also pushing for coal plant closures. Climate policies in Illinois and New Jersey are expected to decrease power generation by 8,900 MW. One question that arises from these developments is whether these states intend to depend on their neighboring regions for power supply.
The board’s op-ed continued:
Many states have established ambitious renewable goals, and the Inflation Reduction Act lavishes enormous subsidies on wind, solar and batteries. But the report says the “historical rate of completion for renewable projects has been approximately 5%,” in part because of permitting challenges. In an optimistic case, the report estimates 21,000 MW of wind, solar and battery storage capacity will be added to the grid by 2030—about half as much as the expected fossil-fuel retirements.
In addition, there is another concern that demand for electric power will escalate as data centers proliferate, and the government pushes for the electrification of vehicles, heating, and other areas. The report highlights that Loudoun County, Virginia, features the “largest concentration of data centers in the world,” which will contribute to the surge in demand for power, the board notes.
“The report doesn’t say this, no doubt owing to political reticence, but the conclusion is clear. The left’s green-energy transition is incompatible with a growing economy and improving living standards,” says the board. “Renewables don’t provide reliable power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the progressive campaign to shut down coal and gas plants that do will invariably result in outages.”
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What did we have before we used candles and oil lamps?
Electricity!
dont worry : black + jewish supremacists will
fix it !
They can’t maintain a digital prison-grid without electricity 24/7/365. Every time the power goes out it will further expose the system’s weaknesses and where it is susceptible to being brought down forever. A power line can have a lethal 20,000V running through it normally but in a power cut it’s got nothing. Destroy its insulation by fire and the prison-grid is under attack, and with consistent nationwide attacks one day the whole system might never start up again.
@Optimus Primate: Power distribution can be regulated to include/exclude end-users. What do you think all the Smart Meters were installed for?
Politicians aren’t the only ones that could care less… Americans themselves collectively could care less. In many areas now gas stoves and water heaters are required to be replaced by inefficient electric versions.
Are Americans fighting… nope,,,, they are complaining the plumbers and electricians are so loaded up they can’t get their appliances changed out fast enough.
WEF has miscalculated , they left GOD out in the Park and the want to rule the pigsty they want us to live in. GOD is out in the park but, BUT HE will send a massive MicroNova event with plasma discharges to FRY ALL THE ELECTRONICS N SATELLITES. So don’t worry , Be Happy,. God plans to win and he is 100% on this, HE ALWAYS WINS!
Optimus–there are not 365 weeks in a year
This world would thrive in life wasn’t for the Jewish Tribe of destroyers & saboteurs. As a consequence mankind lives in a state of arrested development. Somewhere in time our species received a divine spark that separates us from animals. While some prefer to use our time here (one hundred years tops) to be happy & useful, others dedicate their lives to produce human misery.
Nuclear bombs might be a hoax but nuclear energy is real. Don’t say nuclear energy is a hoax because you gonna sound very silly. There is evidence that suggests nuclear energy was used in very ancient times. The fact is nuclear energy has been sabotaged by TPTB. The very use of uranium as fuel is wrong from a technical perspective because thorium is cheaper and 1000 times better. The thorium nuclear reactor can be used in a decentralized way, for instance in your mom’s basement.
This 5 min. Yidtube video covers all important points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
Uranium pressurized reactors run at ridiculous low temperature (100 degrees Celsius, or 212 Fahrenheit) while Thorium reactors run at 400 degrees Celsius (752 Fahrenheit). The bigger the temperature the bigger the plant’s thermal efficiency and power output.
It doesn’t directly solve the convenience of using liquid fuel in vehicles and aircrafts however. Thorium reactors can produce stationary shaft power usually through a modern multiple-stage steam turbine. The turbine powers the electric generator. The bigger the thorium reactor the bigger the electric generator. But electrical energy can be easily converted to hydrogen gas (H2) in a simple process called water electrolysis. Using a pressure vessel as gas tank this H2 then can be burnt in regular IC engines. The author also cites the possibility of synthetic liquid fuel production.
Thorium is abundant when cross referenced against its energy density. Five thousand tonnes of thorium could produce all the energy in a year for the whole world. Management of nuclear waste is still an issue though.
NBTT–they are possessed by immortal demons and are not simply a hundred-year body. Your soul controls your body but their demon wishes to control all the other bodies