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Why CA Will Deal With Third World Conditions This Summer
Posted On 08 May 2022
California had blackouts in 2020 when a heat wave meant there was insufficient power available as the sun went down and renewable sources shut down. Now California’s energy officials are predicting a repeat this summer if anything unexpected happens.
California energy officials on Friday issued a sober forecast for the state’s electrical grid, saying it lacks sufficient capacity to keep the lights on this summer and beyond if heatwaves, wildfires or other extreme events take their toll…
In an online briefing with reporters, the officials forecast a potential shortfall of 1,700 megawatts this year, a number that could go as high as 5,000 MW if the grid is taxed by multiple challenges that reduce available power while sending demand soaring, state officials said during an online briefing with reporters.
Supply gaps along those lines could leave between 1 million and 4 million people without power. Outages will only happen under extreme conditions, officials cautioned, and will depend in part on the success of conservation measures…
…many solar farms and energy storage projects the state has commissioned over the last two years were delayed due to supply chain challenges during the pandemic and a recent federal trade probe into solar imports.
The energy officials also predicted the energy shortfall would be slightly higher in 2025 (1,800 MW) than it is this year. Electricity prices are also expected to rise “between 4% and 9%” by 2025. California’s electricity prices are already some of the highest in the country. In February of this year, the state was in third place behind Hawaii and Connecticut (California’s average rates per kWh were tied with Massachusetts and Rhode Island at 25.59 cents, well above the national average of 13.83 cents).
Gov. Newsom clearly got a preview of this presentation because last week he announced the state was reconsidering its decision to shutter the last nuclear power plant in the next few years.
Newsom told the L.A. Times editorial board Thursday that the state would seek out a share of $6 billion in federal funds meant to rescue nuclear reactors facing closure, money the Biden administration announced this month. Diablo Canyon owner Pacific Gas & Electric is preparing to shutter the plant — which generated 6% of the state’s power last year — by 2025…
Nuclear plants are America’s largest source of climate-friendly power, generating 19% of the country’s electricity last year. That’s almost as much as solar panels, wind turbines, hydropower dams and all other zero-carbon energy sources combined.
Every summer, those of us who live here in California get “flex alert” announcements on the radio. These are basically warnings that unless people turn down their AC units we could face a blackout. They even have their own Twitter account.
A Flex Alert is a call for energy conservation to help relieve grid stress. Learn about the steps you can take to prepare and sign up for notifications at https://t.co/SvLoptiUH6 pic.twitter.com/vwbnxecjyX
— Flex Alert (@flexalert) May 3, 2022
The state clearly needs to preserve the Diablo Canyon plant and to add more natural gas generation and/or more battery storage. But all of that takes time. Fortunately, the state’s population is no longer growing (thanks in part to high prices for energy and everything else) so maybe that will give the state a chance to catch up with demand.
Original Article: https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2022/05/06/california-energy-officials-warn-of-possible-blackouts-this-summer-for-up-to-4-million-people-n467656
Don’t give a 💩 about California. Newsom S**KS/CORRUPT A**HOLE.
The state population is no longer growing thanks to high taxes, high cost of living and strict lockdowns for us ‘Common folk.’ Most people with the means to do so are moving out of California and not looking back. With luck, they remember not to vote for the idiot leftist elitists that they are leaving behind.
Why CA will deal with third world conditions this summer, simple answer, we have third world, incompetent, dictator politicians like Newsom, the legislature and numerous others who made their way into office through corrupted elections.
THOSE FREAKS FROM CALIFORNIA IS A THIRD WORLD
An inevitable result of electing ideological representation. They are so vested in their new green deal they cannot see beyond it. While the populace suffer under untenable taxes and restrictions the so called leadership suffer absolutely no consequences. This is precisely what happens when one party rule is in place. While the elitist woke pat themselves on the back the middle class and the poor just continue to suffer. While the leftists focus on murdering babies and so called green energy regular people struggle to pay their bills and put food on the table. When will people come to understand these policies simply don’t work?
WTF is Gov. Newsom smoking?? CA population not growing? If he’s not counting all the illegals flooding the state, all of them needing some of this power that there isn’t enough of, all of them needing some of the water that there isn’t enough of, yes welcome to the new 3rd world country. I was all for recalling this stupid SOB,
but the liberals in this state like to remain clueless. High gas taxes, terrible road conditions, uncontrolled crime, uncontrolled wildfires, this SOB overturned several issues that the people voted for or against because they didn’t agree with what he wanted!
I can only hope that with this midterms election we can show that we want better for our state…..
Get Woke and go broke and sit in the dark sweating this summer. Serves then right.
Instead of giving the commies subsidies to put up windmills and solar panels the just don’t work, the feds should be fining the idiots for every day they have outages that are above the national average.
Modular Nuclear needs no subsidies and the entire nuclear industry has had only 90 total deaths (none from radiation BTW) in over 70 years compared to over 500 for wind and solar in just 20. Nuclear is up and running over 95% of the time compared to under 35 for wind and solar.
Why are we allowing the NWO Marxists (democrat) to be taking money from the rest of the country that CAN take care of it’s own electrical needs and give it away to a state that is spending it on pie in the sky solutions that just DO NOT WORK! …. Yet another example of what teh NWO Marxists (democrats) have in store for the whole country. They want to make us 3d world while the NWO elites live like royalty. ..
Stop them before it’s too late.
PRESIDENT Trump 2024
Take America back and keep it this time.
So it’s being done on purpose to PUNISH white people? You have waycist ruling you. White people who HATE being white to DEFY their most High.
What does one expect when Cali has a lame Governor and a Pathetic Pelosi.
This site censure my comment. Guess it’s anti American
Starve them (Gruesome and Demoncraps) of water and you’ll solve the problem pretty quick.
Give me your filthy dirty unwashed insane drug attics, your huddled ANTIFA elderly lady assaulters, the wretched insane alcoholic refuse of your teeming shores. Send these and we Californians will assure their homelessness, we will allow their tempest-tost to kill and rob, we will show them how great they are!
If you want people to read your emails you need to display the print in black letters on white background. Your ‘gray on white’ is very hard and very bad for the eyes. When I get emails using this practice, I just hit the Delete and then eventually the Unsubscribe as I don’t want the strain and damage it does to my eyes. Where do you people get these crazy ideas? Do you think you’re saving ink by printing in gray? Or do you think it looks prettier? If you want people to read your information, make it more easy to read. Simple!