Wednesday, April 09, 2025

We've been warned!-----The Looming Electricity Crunch Facing The US

Major US grid operators are raising the alarm about the looming capacity crunch. - From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT - Paul Homewood
“Six major U.S. grid operators have raised a unified alarm about an impending capacity crunch, warning that the pace and scale of explosive demand—including from data centers, manufacturing, and electrification—poses a precarious misalignment with accelerating generator retirements and transmission constraints...
All of the ten regional grids seem to be facing the same problems of increasing demand and closure of dispatchable capacity...
The US still relies on gas and coal for half of its power:

The US grid has been neglected for many years now, all in the naive belief that reliable coal and gas generation can be replaced with wind and solar...

The looming crunch may be even worse than the grid operators think.

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