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If green energy is so amazing, why is California’s power grid about to crater?

July 26, 2018 -

Reports indicate that, due to a persistent "heat dome" that's settled over the southwestern United States in recent weeks, energy needs in California are quickly outpacing supply. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warned back in May that California faces a "significant risk of encountering operating conditions that could result in operating reserve shortfalls" as a result.

On July 24, California's power demand was expected to outstrip its available ...

140M People left without electricity in Bangladesh after national grid failure

October 05, 2022 -

Shameem Hasan, spokesman for the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), confirmed the grid collapse to Al Jazeera. He added that apart from some areas in the country's northwest, "the rest of the country is without power." According to Hasan's estimate, about 75 to 80 percent of Bangladesh is affected by the power failure.

BPDB officials said power transmission failed somewhere in the eastern part of Bangladesh, causing electricity supply to be cut in the capital ...

Department of Energy issues emergency order to help California avoid blackouts

September 09, 2020 -

The DOE's order authorizes three natural gas-fueled power stations to operate at their maximum generation output. This is something they normally cannot do without exceeding federal air quality regulations.

The power plans at the center of the request included units 5/6 and 7/8 at the El Segundo Energy Center in El Segundo, Los Angeles; units one to five at the Walnut Creek Energy Park in the City of Industry, Los Angeles County and units one to four at the generating ...

Operators say green energy transition rendered US power grid unreliable, prone to blackouts

September 19, 2022 -

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) CEO John Bear expressed concern over this issues. "As we move forward, we need to know that when you put a solar panel or a wind turbine up, it's not the same as a thermal resource," he told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).

Mark Rothleder, CEO of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), said his company shared the same predicament as its midwestern counterpart. He told WSJ that sufficient new resources ...

Rolling blackouts demonstrate why California’s “green” power grid is the worst in the country

August 19, 2020 -

The rolling blackouts highlight the poor state of California's power grid, widely considered the worse in the nation; a grid whose reliability may have been further compromised by the green energy policies pursued by the state.“Green energy” not enough to supplant traditional energy sources during heatwave

On August 14, Friday, at around 6:30 p.m., Pacific Gas and Electric, the state's largest utility, began shutting off power in rolling outages to force a reduction in ...

Newsom asks ships not to use shore power while docked in order to reduce demand on electric grid

September 08, 2022 -

Newsom extended his earlier emergency proclamation that sought to preserve power capacity that disallowed vessel operators from plugging into on-dock electric power station. Under the edict, vessels moored from September 3 to 9 are not required to use shore power

As per current guidelines, 80 percent of container vessels, cruise ships and refrigerated vessels that dock at the ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach and Oakland are required to use shore power. Newsom's edict ...

Power grid operators warn of looming energy shortages thanks to Biden’s “clean energy” policies

May 10, 2022 -

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which delivers power to much of the Midwest, is one such company that issued a warning. It said last month that it would likely require increased energy imports alongside emergency resources just to meet peak energy demand for the summer.

JT Smith, MISO's executive director of market operations, pointed to "capacity shortfalls in both the north and central regions" of the operator's service area. These, he adds, leaves ...

America’s infrastructure is falling apart, as evidenced by water supply and power grid failures

September 08, 2022 -

Residents of Jackson, Mississippi waited in line to obtain water for drinking, bathing, cooking and flushing toilets on Aug. 31 after its water system failed due to the Pearl River's flooding. A news release from the city said the main water-treatment plant had "challenges with water chemistry," leading to a dip in water output and a significant drop in water pressure. Prior to the water service disruption, the 150,000 residents of Jackson had been boiling their drinking ...

PG&E anticipates cutting power to some 65,000 California customers amid fire risk

September 30, 2020 -

But the San Francisco-based power provider, which serves 16 million residents throughout northern and central California, scaled back its fire-prevention outages to about 65,000 customers following major improvements in weather conditions. This is about a third fewer than its earlier projection of close to 97,000 customers.

PG&E said that it will inspect power lines during the downtime before restoring power. Meanwhile, it has notified customers of the anticipated ...

Hoover Dam water levels at all-time low, endangering the power grid in Western states

August 18, 2021 -

The water level at Lake Mead, the Colorado River reservoir serving Hoover Dam, has fallen to 1,068 feet above sea level in July, the lowest it has been since the lake was first filled following the dam's construction in the 1930s. The federal government is expected to declare a water shortage for the first time, triggering cutbacks in water allocations to the surrounding states. (Related: Megadrought brings Great Salt Lake water levels to all-time low... with no end in sight....

Drought could force California power plant to shut down at hottest time of the year

June 20, 2021 -

The power plant, which is the state's fourth-largest hydropower producer, depends on Lake Oroville in Northern California to generate electricity. But extreme dry conditions have depleted the water in the lake to "alarming levels." If the water level goes down to below 640 feet, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) will have to shut down the hydropower plant in as early as August. That will coincide with the peak of wildfires and the summer heat.

"If lake ...

Environmental extremists are responsible for California’s chronic power shortages

July 29, 2018 -

One state that has been particularly hard-hit is California. On a recent day, temperatures climbed to 122 F in Palm Springs.

Besides creating new drought conditions, the excessive heat in the Golden State is also causing another problem: Brownouts due to power shortages mostly tied to increased air conditioner use.

As The Daily Caller reported Tuesday, the demand for power is outstripping the state’s ability to provide it by as much as 5,000 megawatts per day, leading ...

NASA data refute leftist climate wildfire claims: Global fires dropped by 25% from 2003 to 2019

September 27, 2020 -

Mainstream media has also churned out article upon article about global fires being on the rise, with large swaths of forests in different parts of the world going up in flames at a historic pace. But these claims couldn’t be further from the truth. Recent scientific data shows just how little climate change has to do with the wildfires.

In particular, there has been a significant 25 percent decrease in global fires from 2003 to 2019, according to the National Aeronautics ...