Posted on 07/24/2018 11:58:18 AM PDT by detective
California’s grid operator is asking customers to limit electricity use during peak hours to help keep power flowing as a “heat dome” settles over the southwestern U.S.
But they were warned of this months ago. The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warned in May that California faced “significant risk of encountering operating conditions that could result in operating reserve shortfalls.”
Expected power demand is expected to outstrip California’s available generating capacity by about 5,000 megawatts on Tuesday, according to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO).
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California is facing shortages of water and electricity.
Democrat politicians are turning California into a backward, corrupt third world dictatorship.
They’ll blame Trump, and their brain-dead voters will believe them.
Kwick, permanently destroy the desert and all the creatures that call it home by building tens of thousands of square miles of solar panels across the mojave and sonoran desert and throw in thousands of tons of concrete and raptor shredders across hundreds of miles of previously pristine mountain tops.
“...Democrat politicians are turning California into a backward, corrupt third world dictatorship...”
Yes, and here is just one example. They REFUSE to build more water capacity because the enviro-whackos give too much money to the RAT party. They will not build more reservoirs to compensate for the shortage of water.
That is just the beginning of a long list of what they are doing to the state...all FOR POWER AND CONTROL.
OH Bull$hit.. the available power is 50k megawatts and the demand rarely exceeds 40K megawatts since running out all the large business firms, Canaries, and manufacturing. Last time they had a big demand was about 2006. CAISO.
Nope.
They have to turn off the power to prevent fires.
They told us so.
Gerbils! More gerbils running the wheels will solve this! Either that or whale oil.
At least they didn’t need 1.2 gigawatts!
It’s climate change. Happens almost every summer in various regions of California.
NO CRACKPIPE
If CA does exceed 50K Megawatts Mexico may be able to make up the difference. //sarc off//
They think the environment is more important than people so this is as expected and by design. If green energy can’t meet the demand, oh well. Can’t build another power plant. Too harmful.
No wonder they are requiring the solar panels on new homes. It may be expensive to the homeowners, but it will make a real dent in their electricity usage.
This hideous failure brought to you by Schwarzenegger’s brainchild, AB 32, the Global Warming beel. Thanks, Ah-nuhld!
“Gerbils! More gerbils running the wheels will solve this! Either that or whale oil.”
The LBGT community says gerbils are needed for other purposes and can not be used to generate power.
Q. What did the brown San Francisco gerbil say to the white San Francisco gerbil?
A. You must be new in town.
Need a few nuke plants out there.
Once they lose electricity for a while, they might be just a tad less prone to hug those trees!
How much of a dent, percentage-wise?
Ask Cape Town how’s the water situation there treating them? Don’t want to do business with the Jews. So smart
Couldn’t care less.
I don’t heat or cool my home. I have a very wide tolerance range for temperatures.
Several weeks ago I rode my mo-ped six miles one way up hill to see my parents in 113 degree heat. And yes, I did peddle along the way. “:^)
California’s leadership might as well be living in the 1800s as behind the times and misguided as they are.
They could promote nuclear energy and desalinization plants along our coast to provide needed energy, and necessary for human life, fresh water.
Instead they are busy tracking people who purchase ammunition.
First things first... we may have many dead people at some point, but at least we’ll know what ammunition they’ve been buying.
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