The Grid Down Next Time May Be Here
On Monday, Spain, Portugal and part of France came, literally, to a screeching halt for many hours. Millions are still without power.
What happened? And could it happen here?
The Portuguese grid operator blamed extreme temperature variation-induced “oscillations” in its high-voltage power lines. It may actually have more to do with the unreliability and attendant problems caused by so-called “sustainable” wind and solar power generation, on which the affected grid relies for over 50 percent of its electricity.
Parts of the U.S. electric grid certainly face such so-called green energy-precipitated problems as solar and wind farms that work part-time replace coal, nuclear and gas-fired power plants that work continuously.
That’s a formula for disaster here, too. Until it’s reversed, our grid will go down, too – if not due to enemy action or solar storms, because of insane green energy policies.
This is Frank Gaffney.
This is a big issue. Nothing is more important in our daily lives than having electricity. Why would anyone want to count on electricity production that only works part-time. It seems that we are making our ability to use electricity more expensive and less reliable to pile up government money for oligarchs mooching from our tax money (and that of our children). Let free enterprise work and the consumer becomes king. After all, that is what our Constitution made "we the people": The sovereigns of our nation. If we can keep it.