{"id":268437,"date":"2023-07-19T21:35:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268437"},"modified":"2023-07-19T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T19:35:14","slug":"progressive-power-policy-ever-increasing-prices-ever-decreasing-reliability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268437","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Progressive\u2019 Power Policy: Ever-Increasing Prices & Ever-Decreasing\u00a0Reliability"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From STOP THESE THINGS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If your idea of progress means never having power when you need it most, and never being able to afford it when you do get it, then the grand wind and solar transition is for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guaranteed to deliver a power pricing and supply calamity, every time, heavily subsidised wind and solar are said to be the \u201cfuture\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Mendoza and Troy Senik take a look at what that wind and sun \u2018powered\u2019 future means for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the Lights Go Out: The Destabilization of America\u2019s Electricity Supply<\/strong>
Kite and Key Media
Vanessa Mendoza and Troy Senik
14 June 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the year 2000, there were fewer than two dozen major power disruptions in the United States. In 2020, there were 180. How did our electricity get so much less reliable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A number of factors are at work in the growing instability of the grid. For one thing, much of our electricity infrastructure is aging \u2014 over 70 percent of power lines are approaching the end of their lifecycle. For another, extreme weather events pose a significant danger given how much of the country\u2019s electricity infrastructure is above ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One more significant part of the problem: the way we\u2019re using renewable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because wind and solar power can\u2019t provide electricity all of the time, they have to be backstopped by conventional energy sources. But as states around the nation require more renewables, the result is a grid that can\u2019t always reliably keep the lights on. In 2022, the organization that monitors the grid warned that most of the country is going to be at an elevated risk for blackouts over the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is America destined for a future of energy instability? The answer will depend on the choices we make going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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