Biden's Brownouts
Baseload: the minimum amount of electric power needed at any given time
Baseload power plants require ‘non-renewables’ for fuel. Indeed, by definition the production systems that supply the minimum needed power cannot rely on unreliable fuels. Neither solar nor wind power can fuel baseload-producing power plants; coal and nuclear energy are ideal, however.
Joe Biden’s new rules limiting CO2 emissions will soon cause brownouts, and electric grid operators are “sounding the alarm bells” about their inability to generate and provide baseload power.
Things could get ugly. Very ugly. And soon, too.
You know the drill…
… delivering on the Biden-Harris Administration’s commitment to protect public health, advance environmental justice, and confront the climate crisis.
The government wants to convince you that they can produce rabbits out of empty hats, that they can “protect all communities from pollution and improve public health without disrupting the delivery of reliable electricity.”
But wait! There’s more!
If you buy now you are “Saving the Planet” asserts President Biden’s National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi…
“This is how we win the future, by harnessing new technologies to grow our economy, deliver environmental justice, and save the planet for future generations.”
You’d be forgiven for believing Ali Zaidi, a Pakistani-American lawyer, wrote his own Wikipedia entry…
As the DPC deputy director for energy policy, Zaidi handled a range of issues on the White House's domestic policy team. Zaidi worked on the design and implementation of federal policies and the development of public and private sector partnerships to increase U.S. energy security and cut harmful carbon pollution. His portfolio covered policy matters related to supply of and demand for energy - including policies that reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil by promoting responsible federal-lands production and adoption of alternative fuels; and policies that create jobs by advancing research and deployment of clean energy and energy efficiency technologies - as well as the intersection of these matters with the President's Climate Action Plan.
All the numbers you’ll read in the next four sentences are entirely made up, perhaps (if not likely) by Lawyer Zaidi himself:
A final rule for existing coal-fired and new natural gas-fired power plants that would ensure that all coal-fired plants that plan to run in the long-term and all new baseload gas-fired plants control 90 percent of their carbon pollution.
A final rule strengthening and updating the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) for coal-fired power plants, tightening the emissions standard for toxic metals by 67 percent and finalizing a 70 percent reduction in the emissions standard for mercury from existing lignite-fired sources.
A final rule to reduce pollutants discharged through wastewater from coal-fired power plants by more than 660 million pounds per year, ensuring cleaner water for affected communities, including communities with environmental justice concerns that are disproportionately impacted.
A final rule that will require the safe management of coal ash that is placed in areas that were unregulated at the federal level until now, including at previously used disposal areas that may leak and contaminate groundwater.
Ambitious… 90%, 67%, 70% and 660 million pounds!
These EPA rules are a Democrat progressive’s wish list, but they’re a nightmare for America’s grid operators.
“We’ve got the regional grid coordinators across the grids, PJM 13 states, MISO 15 states, CAISO, which is California, ERCOT, which is Texas, and now added North Carolina and Tennessee, 32 states now impacted by grid operators telling us that they’re running out of electricity,” … and we are not “generating enough baseload constant duty electricity to support demand.”
Dave Walsh, former President and CEO of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc.
In other words, grid operators cry BUNK! to the Biden EPA assertions about avoiding “disrupting the delivery of reliable electricity.”
Walsh describes: “A massive shortage of what’s called baseload constant duty electricity power plants. These are plants that run all day long, generally 365 days a year, very high capacity factor, 92, 95 percent, being displaced with stuff that operates, if solar, national average five hours a day, up in the north about four hours a day it’s operational. Wind, on land, is about an eight-hour-a-day phenomenon, but again, radically modifies day to day.”
Walsh added that there is about a “75 percent variation in daily wind volume or speed for power generation.”
“You’ve got a great shortfall there, great shortfall with solar displacing assets that run all of the time. So you wind up with a systematic reduction of energy being produced by the electrical system,”
Joe Biden’s new rules are creating “a systemic reduction of energy.”
The BEC published a warning of our own exactly one year ago:
Louisiana Public Service Commissioner Craig Greene, speaking last year - suspicious - snarkily noted:
Warnings!
All of this is by design.
Here’s Biden’s fake “oil slick on the windshield” story from the presidential debates:
Here’s Joe shutting down as much of the oil and gas industry as he can by Day-One signature:
Here’s his “look into my eyes” “guarantee” “we’re gonna end fossil fuels”:
Joe Biden is a clear and present danger.
Here he assures us “we’ll need oil at least another decade”:
Read the full story referenced in the article HERE:
We have been warned, everyone.
The BEC