Biden's America: Power sector warns of blackouts as demand clashes with traditional plant retirements

[SugarDaddy1]

Officials and grid operators across the country are warning of high prices and possible blackouts throughout the summer when peak electricity demand runs up against generating capacity constraints.

The alarms reveal a number of problems facing power grids across the country, including, in some regions, the trouble utilities are facing with capacity while moving away from fossil fuels and toward renewable sources, a process that Democrats and environmentalists want to see hastened but which many Republicans and fossil fuel industry interests are trying to slow.

Power grids face different problems depending on the region, but multiple operators have been warning that tight capacity margins could lead to shortages in the event of extreme heat or weather events that damage transmission.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...nd-clashes-with-traditional-plant-retirements

 

[ll74]

And why are the plants being retired? (Hint: it's not because of the administration)

This is simply the energy sector blaming someone else for their own problems.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

And why are the plants being retired? (Hint: it's not because of the administration)

This is simply the energy sector blaming someone else for their own problems.

I think it is just the examiner looking for news items it can spin in a way to lay the blame at Biden's feet. They seem to be pretty good at sucking in the weak minded Republicans.

 

[pecksniff]

I think it is just the examiner looking for news items it can spin in a way to lay the blame at Biden's feet. They seem to be pretty good at sucking in the weak minded Republicans.

While the Washington Examiner is named like a newspaper, it is not one.