Posted on 06/14/2022 4:39:25 PM PDT by Phoenix8
“At AES Indiana, we certainly have a plan. We’re watching the grid, and it’s something that we’re certainly prepared for, but at this time it is not something that is raising a concern for us,” said AES Indiana spokesperson Kelly Young. “We’re seeing a lot about it in the news — we’re watching that, too — but we do have a plan and we are not concerned.”
Indiana has plenty of coal, now build more power plants.
https://www.in.gov/dnr/reclamation/coal-in-indiana/indiana-coal-by-the-numbers/
OH...well why didn’t you say so? If it’s only people in small towns that swelter and die and have their food rot, that shouldn’t be a big problem. /s
Just wait until you get Californiacated by FedGov and have to feed your electricity into the grid and pay for whatever you use.
This should not be a problem for liberals. Buy a couple of sidewalk solar lights at Walmart and bring them into the house after dark to light up one room.
You don’t really need a stove if you can eat canned tuna and peanut butter.
Temperatures will begin to drop in late fall although by them you may not be able to afford much electricity.
How will they charge their electric cars?
Yes. Both my old panels and the new ones made in the U.S.
We just need more electric cars! That’l fix everything.
Evil... did you see that woman smirk when she said “people should just do what we always ask them to do and be prepared, and cut back use”.
These new energy grid management firms suck. Their goal is not reliable power. It is grabbing as many areas under their control as possible, and cutting back power generation to maximize stock prices and to harvest government “green” money.
Having your a/c turned off after coming home from a hard day making the worlds best diesel burning engines at Cummins right there in Columbus.
Ha! I think made it once or twice. Fording the river was a bad idea.
Alabama doesn't do net metering. Because of that, virtually all of us solar users in Alabama buy inverters with a "no report" / "zero output" feature that basically lets us tell our inverters not to put power onto the grid. The solar users in other states got suckered into buying inverters that always put power onto the grid (cheaper than inverters with other options) because those states had net metering --- until they didn't. So in those states you paid no extra monthly fee just to participate in their solar buyback program, and when they bought solar from you it was close to the same cents/kWh rate that you pay the utility when you buy power from them. Who wouldn't sign up for that? That's how they got suckered in before Commiefornia changed the rules recently. The solution is to replace their old inverter(s) with a more expensive one that allows them to put nothing onto the grid. That makes them cease to be a "power generating" customer with all the regulations and fees that go with it.
As far as my power utility is concerned, I'm not a solar user. I'm just a customer who buys little power from them ... for whatever reason.
If my power utility makes me pay that large monthly "solar fee" even though I'm not technically a "power generating" customer, I'll go off-grid, buy a 10kW continuous power generator for about $1,500, buy a 100lb propane tank (but fill it about 70% to keep it from "freezing") and, according to my math, run my generator on average 1.5 hours per month for when my solar and batteries don't have power. That sure beats having to pay the $130 solar fee (it's based on the throughput of your inverter(s)) plus the $16 monthly stay-connected fee all of us in Alabama pay each month even before they add the charges per kWh.
LOL! A cruel irony if there ever was one...
Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’
Keep those blackouts rollin’
rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ climate change
Don’t try to understand ‘em
just shut the juice and brand ‘em
and tell the stupid public the weather is man made
A family friend works at a Northern Indiana REMC. The problem, according to them, this is the issue: Electric Vehicles. What people do not realize is that those fancy electric vehicles. These coal power electric cars really suck the power and the REMCs cannot keep up with them.
I’d like to add, that these electric vehicles use the road, but do not pay the gas tax, which is a usage tax that goes to our state roads. I really believe states need to start having an “Alternative Minimum Tax” for EV owners. It’s only fair. Not buying gas? Great, you are still using the road and causing blackouts. You rich bastards can pay more!
I worked in nuclear power in the Navy. What I have been told is that when they built that plant, they incorrectly laid down the cement and lie about it. Since then, Indiana has not been ok with Nuclear Power. However, the GA did change the law either this or last year. Purdue is in the talks for building a mini reactor which apparently is enough to power most, if not all of West Lafayette. I imagine they will be something like the size of the submarine reactors they put on the Enterprise (there were 8 mini reactors on the ship) or more like the size that were on the Nimitz class (2)
“Alabama doesn’t do net metering. Because of that, virtually all of us solar users in Alabama buy inverters with a “no report” / “zero output” feature that basically lets us tell our inverters not to put power onto the grid.”
That’s all fine and dandy until the greenies get their way, O’Biden (or some other Dem administration) nationalizes the power grid and craps all over everything.
And you will NOT be allowed to go off-grid if your residence is within a certain distance of power lines.
Not saying it will happen soon, but it will happen sooner or later.
Count on it.
So, are you from Indiana or from Columbus, IN? I live here and The Republic is the biggest damn joke in all of southern Indiana.
Why would anyone quote an article from Columbus, Indiana?
I actually tried to go look at the core foundation last year but was stopped by some workers. I was shocked how huge that place is, we walked for hundreds of yards past concrete foundations, roads, storage tanks..all grown over with vegetation before we were stopped.
Still didn’t reach the core. Now my daughter has moved from the Cincinnati area so there won’t be a reason to drive that way again, unless I just go there for that purpose. And they might be looking for me…🤣.
Good 1…😹
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