Remember the Christmas cold snap that threatened to crash the electric grid in the Eastern U.S.? Among the energy and grid savings measures local utilities like Duke Energy were urging customers to take included:
Avoid using large appliances – this means appliances with a three-pronged plug, such as dishwashers, ovens and dryers – during high-demand periods like early winter mornings.
A later assessment of the power crisis said a big push toward electric heating helped make a dire situation worse:
The states hit hardest by blackouts in [December’s] winter storm have significantly increased reliance on heating homes with electricity over the last decade, putting more strain on the power grid when temperatures plummet.
The number of households using electric heat in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina increased by about 20% from 2009 to 2020, according to government data that survey a sample of households. The generating capacity of power plants in the region, meanwhile, has remained relativity flat and increasingly dependent on natural gas.
The natural gas switch was from coal – which is on the green energy naughty list.
This all points to the need for a more robust grid that can handle greater electric demand – hardly a cheap, quick, or simple fix. But a necessary one.
In the meantime, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is pondering a ban on gas stoves. It’s a way, the agency says, to fight asthma in children. It’s also a way to put even more strain on an already rickety electric grid. But don’t expect the CPSC to take that into consideration. Instead, it appears to be focused on esthetics:
There is this misconception that if you want to do fine-dining kind of cooking it has to be done on gas,” [Commissioner Richard Trumka, Jr.] said. “It’s a carefully manicured myth.”
Perhaps. What isn’t a myth? The nation’s electric grid is one powerful storm away from falling apart.
Which means no one’s electric stove – or lights, or heat – will work for a very long time.
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Why should I bother to comment when your policy of censorship is boldly proclaimed in the statement “Please allow time before your comment appears, as all comments are reviewed and subject to moderation.”
The only comments that should be banned are those that are ILLEGAL, and that should not take a moderator to note illegal comments; every reader would have that option.
They just moderate me AGAIN for criticizing Democrats.
For CA No Energy=No EVs
Since most EVs are powered from electricity derived from fossil fuels, how do EVs Save the Planet?
Making decisions with no plan or research for how it will affect the future results. IMO
Oh, the Dems have plans. They just are not in the interests of working people. The plans are to raise the fortunes of the money manipulators like Pelosi and Soros by changing the value of resources and stocks through laws and regulations which politicians impose.
The government is the problem. It tries to regulate absolutely everything and it is incompetent at most things b
Most?
We are nowhere near being able to support a Green Agenda.
The only way to slow the production of manmade carbon is to build hundreds or thousands of new nuclear production facilities, but that would necessitate totally rebuilding the electrical grid from the ground up at the cost of trillions of dollars. That much juice would fry the grid we now have in place. Solar, wind, and hydro can’t cut it.
Dems never let a crisis go to waste, and they will exacerbate a crisis when they can do so. There is always money to be made in crisises and mandated changes as politicians like Nancy Pelosi well know. That’s the primary goal of the Global Warming Hoax. Ban energy production to force oil producers into bankruptcy and suddenly Green Energy pops up to replace the oil industry. New empires are born to make solar and windmills. Making liquid and gaseous fuels scarcer and more expensive, and outlawing production and usage of them, opens great new fortune-making opportunities for the politicians and cronies who engineer shortages in the name of Saving the Planet.
The headline assumes good intentions on behalf of those pushing what they call “green energy”. I don’t share that assumption.
this entire circus needs to be done in baby steps, Not jumping off a bridge with out a parachute. let’s see if they allowed it to be posted
Myths? Well, Dems and the MSM work hand in hand to distract from facts. Consider that when there are blackouts, families take a large financial hit as they replace spoiled food, but Dems and the MSM never mention it.
Every time facts show the national power grid cannot support the needs of having all electric appliances and vehicles, the MSM distract from the failure to upgrade the grid.
Some things never change. One example is the CA faling power grid. Green EV types have finally attained their wish – to ban sales of new fossil fuel cars in CA by 2035. Now (not in 2035) Gov Newsom rants they must comply with requirements to raise thermostats, avoid using large appliances, turn off unnecessary lights, on, and avoid charging their EVs so much.
I worked on communication contracts in CA for Air Force Space Command from 1996 to 2001. Even then, with no fires to blame it on, there between 5 to 6 black outs every year. Most lasted between 8 to 24 hours, but one lasted four days and spanned 100 miles of the central coast.
Through it all, green types were pushing to mandate increasing numbers of EVs. Yep. Plug thousands of EVs into an already failing grid. That’ll fix it. Oh, wait…
Greenies have fought all attempts to upgrade their grid and now expect things to just magically work out. AOC will just send in thousands of flying unicorns, rainbows, pixie dust and glitter
The intelligence that it takes to make the proper decision to run this country have been bread out or educated out of the majority of people in America. A child should be able to recognize that if the electrical supply has problems providing for the existing users now how are Millions of electrically charged vehicles being added to the system not going to push it over the edge?
Ban gas stoves?
Bull-shift!!! Ban the Consumer Product Safety Commission instead.