Note they warn "blackouts", not "brownouts".-----The Energy ‘Transition’ — a Leap into the Dark

The Energy ‘Transition’ — a Leap into the Dark

• Not for the first time, it strikes me that the transition away from fossil fuels may be moving rather more quickly than the technology upon which it is supposed to rely.

"The Wall Street Journal:
Summer is around the corner, and we suggest you prepare by buying an emergency generator, if you can find one in stock. 

Last week the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warned that two-thirds of the U.S. could experience blackouts this summer. 

Welcome to the “green energy transition.”

We’ve been warning for years that climate policies would make the grid more vulnerable to vacillations in supply and demand....

...Meanwhile, the WSJ adds:
Natural-gas-fired plants can help pick up the slack, but there aren’t enough of them to back up all of the renewables coming onto the grid.
...Even Bloomberg...“The pace of our grid transformation is out of sync” with the physical realities of the existing power network, Moura said.
Moura? 

That would be John Moura, director of reliability assessment and performance analysis for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a regulatory body that oversees grid stability. Oh.
Perhaps now would not be the moment to overload the grid further by “nudging” (or more) drivers into electric vehicles..."