Not good news for many. Honestly I believe that we need to open more nuclear power plants, others disagree. But from the carbon footprint standpoint, and the energy efficiency standpoint, it is clearly the right choice for power production today. Of course politics gets in the way and it is next to impossible to open a new nuke plant in the US. Not totally, but clearly it takes a miracle to open a nuke plant, plus a decade of effort, and billions of dollars risked, just to open a new power plant. It is, however, exactly what we need.
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‘Grid Failure’ May Cause ‘Forced’ Blackouts For Half of U.S. This Summer, Experts Warn | Widespread blackouts may come to the Midwest, Texas, and Western U.S. this summer due to “insufficient” power generation to meet demand, a top grid operator warn
Widespread blackouts may come to the Midwest, Texas, and Western U.S. this summer due to “insufficient” power generation to meet demand, a top grid operator warned in an unprecedented report.The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a non-profit regulator for U.S. grid operators...
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‘Grid Failure’ May Cause ‘Forced’ Blackouts For Half of U.S. This Summer, Experts Warn
Posted on May 25, 2022 by Constitutional Nobody
Widespread blackouts may come to the Midwest, Texas, and Western U.S. this summer due to “insufficient” power generation to meet demand, a top grid operator warned in an unprecedented report.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a non-profit regulator for U.S. grid operators, issued a first of its kind Summer Reliability Assessment warning that the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which operates the power grid across 15 states, is at “high” risk of failing to meet energy demand, which may lead to “forced outages.”
“In the event of wide-area extreme heat event, all U.S. assessment areas in the Western Interconnection are at risk of energy emergencies,” the report says.
The report warns the situation is worse for the Midwest because MISO, which serves 42 million people’s energy needs, is preparing to have 2.3% less generation capacity this summer than it had the year before, while peak demand projections have increased by 1.7%.
The report goes on to say that Texas’ energy grid may need to use “emergency procedures” to cope with “a combination of extreme peak demand, low wind, and high outage rates from thermal generators.”
