Motionless windmills, solar plant glitches, shuttered coal plants and low water levels create a recipe for widespread power outages this summer, the country’s leading watchdog on power grid reliability warns.
An assessment from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. found that electrical grids powering two-thirds of the U.S. are “at risk of energy shortfalls” during summer heat waves.
The risk of summer outages is high in the West, where intermittent solar and wind power have been increasingly incorporated into the energy grid. Mr. Robb told senators of “the prospect of more frequent and serious disruptions that threaten human well-being and economic productivity.”SEE ALSO: Manchin interrupted at energy event by protesters denouncing ‘dirty’ Mountain Valley Pipeline deal
Renewables, including hydropower, supply about half of California’s energy grid. California is also the nation’s largest importer of electricity. It relies on other states to provide up to a third of its supply. Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat and chairman of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said the reason for the grid’s creeping instability is the hasty retirement of critical power plants to help fulfill the left’s agenda to replace fossil fuels.
“But this EPA won’t let electric reliability inconvenience their anti-fossil agenda,” Mr. Manchin said. “Within six months of Winter Storm Elliott, EPA’s response was to roll out four new regulations poised to shut down 50,000 megawatts or more of coal power over the next decade, whether the grid is ready for it or not. EPA is not hiding their strategy. It’s death by a thousand unreasonable cuts.”
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