{"id":41383,"date":"2021-02-22T10:05:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41383"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T15:05:51","slug":"the-dangers-of-moving-to-green-energy-before-the-technology-is-perfected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41383","title":{"rendered":"The Dangers Of Moving To Green Energy Before The Technology Is Perfected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 10th, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnlocke.org\/update\/cooper-is-steering-north-carolina-towards-electricity-blackouts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The John Locke Foundation<\/a> posted an article about the proposed energy policies of North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><small>Last summer California suffered two days of rolling blackouts<\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><small>California\u2019s Utility Commission recently published their findings of what happened to cause the massive loss in power<\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><small>Years of misguided policies led to a shortage of dispatchable energy \u2014 the same policies Gov. Roy Cooper is advocating for North Carolina<\/small><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Last summer California suffered two days of rolling blackouts because the customers\u2019 needs for electricity exceeded the California power system\u2019s ability to generate electricity. Such a thing should never happen. The California Utilities Commission recently published a report explaining what happened and why.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>North Carolinians should know that many of the energy policies Gov. Roy Cooper has advocated for here in North Carolina follow the mistakes identified as the cause of California\u2019s blackouts. As in California, these missteps will leave North Carolina unprepared for our energy future and will ultimately lead to blackouts here. North Carolina should not repeat California\u2019s mistakes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The job of providing stable electricity to the consumer can be complicated, but this much is pretty simple: enough electricity must always be generated to meet the demand. The United States has developed one of the world\u2019s finest electricity systems. Its costs are among the lowest, and its reliability is among the highest. What happened to California? What bad energy decisions were made over the years in California resulting in rolling blackouts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>According to the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.caiso.com\/Documents\/Final-Root-Cause-Analysis-Mid-August-2020-Extreme-Heat-Wave.pdf\">Root Cause Analysis<\/a>\u201d published by California Independent System Operator, the California Public Utilities Commission, and the California Energy<\/strong> <strong>Commission, here are the factors that led to the outages:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Climate change\u2013induced extreme weather caused the demand to exceed the generating capability of the California system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In transitioning to \u201cclean\u201d energy, the State\u2019s dispatchable generating capacity had \u201cnot kept pace\u201d with the state\u2019s needs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The State\u2019s \u201cResource Adequacy\u201d program failed to predict the needs of the heat wave.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Cooper is steering North Carolina in the same direction. He opposes building new natural gas pipelines while pushing for more solar plants, which need natural gas backup. Is this where we want North Carolina to go? Do we want more poverty? Do we want the poorest having to pay more of their monthly income for electricity? Do we want rolling blackouts?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Shouldn\u2019t we learn from California\u2019s mistakes instead and keep natural gas plants supplied with gas while we build more nuclear power?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are a few things those promoting green energy (including electric cars) fail to mention when promoting their agenda. The disposal of the blades on windmills and the disposal of solar panels are creating an environmental hazard. The mining of lithium for electric car batteries involves the use of slave labor in Africa. (articles <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=40111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41260\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=979\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greentechmedia.com\/articles\/read\/green-battery-revolution-powering-social-and-environmental-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>). Rolling blackouts are not acceptable in a country as prosperous as America. We have cut our carbon footprint significantly with the use of natural gas. It is folly to believe we can run a successful economy without the careful use of fossil fuel to keep the economy going. Spain learned that lesson in the early 2000&#8217;s (article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=23739\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully the legislature can put Governor Cooper on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 10th, The John Locke Foundation posted an article about the proposed energy policies of North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. The article reports: Last summer California suffered two days of rolling blackouts California\u2019s Utility Commission recently published their findings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41383\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12167,317,3195,1957,625,13483,1310,13004,13440],"class_list":["post-41383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-governor-cooper","tag-green-energy","tag-lithium","tag-natural-gas","tag-north-carolina","tag-solar-panels","tag-spain","tag-the-john-locke-foundation","tag-windmill-blades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41387,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41383\/revisions\/41387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}