As the jobs end and the plants close, the power demand goes down?
Turn off the streetlights?
Homeowners already have cut back to what they need for their households to function--no one is spending more than they need to. At northern latitudes, electric power, more fundamentally, heat, is not optional in winter. You get it or die.
Considering the EPA wants to shut down burning coal and wood for heat, too, that doesn't leave many options.
Putting all the eggs in one basket is something old timers did not do.
Yet our tax dollars are continually funneled to cronies who willingly help drive the dedevelopment [Obama’s Science and Technology Advisor’s term and goal) of the United States.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3294345/posts
The DC, May 28, 2015: Study Predicts Decades of Global Cooling Ahead
FEMA targets climate change skeptic governors, could withhold funding
Millions of foreigners crossing the US border isn't the answer.