Electrical grid operators have been” sounding alarm bells” that they will not be able to “meet the demand” of the amount of electricity needed under the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency’s ( EPA ) most recent regulations, Dave Walsh, former President and CEO of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Americas, Inc. ( MHPSA ) said during an interview on Breitbart News Saturday.
On Thursday, the EPA released four ultimate rules that may help with the reduction in pollution from “fossil fuel-fired power plants.”
The last regulations for coal-fired and natural gas-fired power plants by the EPA “limit the amount of carbon pollution covered sources may emit.”
” We’ve got the local network coordinators across the grids, PJM 13 states, MISO 15 states, CAISO, which is California, ERCOT, which is Texas, and now added North Carolina and Tennessee, 32 states now impacted by network operators telling us that they’re running out of electricity”, Walsh said, adding that we are not “generating enough baseload continuous duty power to help demand”.
According to the U.S. Energy and Information Administration, states like California usually import about “eight to one-fifth” of its energy source.
According to Walsh,” California goods 34 percentage of its energy to begin with before running into problems in southwestern California.”
” We’ve had a mix of energy resources, with nuclear plants shut down en masse, and coal plants locked down en mass with these most recent EPA directives.” Generally, having the effect of closing the rest of them by 2039″, Walsh added. ” There is a significant shortage of baseload constant duty electric power plants.” These are plants that run all day long, usually 365 days a year, pretty substantial power aspect, 92, 95 percent, being displaced with stuff that operates, if solar, regional average five hours a day, up in the north about four hours a day it’s operating. Wind, on area, is about an eight- hr- a- time phenomenon, but once, profoundly modifies day to day”.
Walsh added that there is” a 75 % variation in daily wind volume or speed for power generation.”
” You have a great shortfall there, great shortfall with solar displacing assets that operate continuously,” he said. So you end up with a consistently lower energy output from the electrical system,” Walsh said. Grid operators all over the country are now raising the alarm that they wo n’t be able to meet demand with the amount of electricity being produced in the coming years.
Walsh added that costs will rise because electrical grid coordinators are warning they will not be able to meet the demand for electricity because the Biden administration’s most recent EPA regulations have less power produced.
” This brings us to the cost issue. We’ve already seen, in the last three years, national electricity rates rise by about 23 percent. Where I am in Florida, up by 29 percent. If you have a shortage of anything, a growing shortage of anything, costs rise. A dramatic increase in costs. This experiment has been run in Europe and Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, California already, mass over- adoption of renewables”.
In August 2023, California was forced to rely on fossil fuels like natural gas to supply electricity to residents as a result of a persistent heat wave because renewable energy sources like solar and wind could n’t keep up with the demand, especially during the hottest evenings.
Walsh warned that if solar and wind are adopted to the degree the Biden administration wants, people will” see electric costs probably two- and- a- half to three times higher within 20 years, and a massive increase]in the] amount of brownouts, blackouts, and service curtailment announcements such as we see already in ERCOT and CAISO, advancing into PJM and MISO, which is about 28 more states”.
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