Posted on 04/26/2024 6:33:30 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) admitted Thursday that the state still faces the risk of blackouts in heat waves despite investing in battery capacity to store electricity for use in times of peak demand.
The Los Angeles Times reported:
Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves.
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Asked by reporters if California now had enough battery storage so that residents no longer had to worry about blackouts during times of high power use, Newsom laughed.
“We have a lot of work to do still in moving this transition, with the kind of stability that’s required,” the governor said. “So no, this is not today announcing that blackouts are part of our past.”
California is pushing to meet ambitious “green energy” and “zero emissions” targets, including a transition to an all-electric car and truck fleet, despite the fact that the state lacks power generating capacity to meet growing demand.
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Even the largest battery plants have yet to be able to power even a small city for 24 hours. Californians better stock up on candles
Kalifornia...a state with 3% EVs on the road...has regular blackouts in the summer.Texas...a state with 1% EVs on the road...has blackouts in winter.
Hey, that might work. Once Newsome is installed into the WHouse this year GDavis can step in. Better than Shift.
I think you are missing the point. A certain level of incomp is expected. But, this is deliberate. And, the only reason we are not a nation of only 100M citizens is because of the natural incomp of the commie trash in charge.
You are not dead yet and your children enslaved ‘cause of the pinheads making and implementing the laws necessary to do that.
It actually can. There are so many solar installs on the roofs of homes and out in the deserts that we generate surplus electricity on most days of the year. We could subsidize energy costs for factories and office buildings and lower the costs of running a business in CA. We produce so much electricity that the utilities actually dump it - they aren’t in the business of giving away electricity. Instead of using that to attract businesses and cut their operating costs they deliberately discard the surplus to keep prices artificially high. CA has some of the highest energy costs in the country yet it actually produces huge amounts of surplus energy day after day.
Peak usage is 4 to 9 pm not during daylight hours when the factories and buildings are operating. We could use that to attract low carbon use industry, but we don’t. The bureaucrats and politicians don’t even think about it. The utilities sure as heck don’t want to.
Well, who would protest a reduction of light pollution? Astronomers will thank you.
There are interconnect points that will act to isolate troubled sectors of the grid to keep the rest up and running.
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