government is forcing conventional energy into retirement too quickly and replacing it with intermittent wind and solar power at a slower rate, producing a gap. Over two-thirds of the United States is at risk for blackouts. America’s grid may fall short this summer, according to the body responsible for ensuring the lights stay on.
Wind and solar are intermittent, weather-driven technologies. Texas has added more solar power, but its electricity demand has grown by more, and as the sun does not shine at night, the state is taking the precaution of purchasing expensive batteries to back up its wind and solar units.
While Texas and most of the Midwest are expected to have enough power to meet demand under the assumption that they do not experience any extreme hot summer days, Texas narrowly averted a power outage last summer by leaning on businesses to curtail operations. The major problem is that dispatchable generating resources (coal, natural gas and nuclear) are retiring far too quickly and in quantities that threaten the ability to keep the lights on, as insufficient wind and solar power are being added to replace the retirements. The North American Reliability Corporation’s (NERC) summer reliability assessment forecasts that no less than two-thirds of the United States, including most everyone living west of the Mississippi River, could experience power outages. Biden’s transition to “green energy” is affecting the electric grid and its capacity to supply energy this summer.
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