{"id":48773,"date":"2023-01-09T13:39:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48773"},"modified":"2023-01-09T13:39:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T18:39:15","slug":"green-energy-is-a-problem-in-really-cold-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=48773","title":{"rendered":"Green Energy Is A Problem In Really Cold Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, John Hinderaker at Power Line Blog<\/a> posted an article about the Christmas season energy brownouts in North and South Carolina.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Duke Energy customers in North and South Carolina experienced rolling blackouts over Christmas. Duke is appropriately contrite<\/a>, but its explanation of its own failure is revealing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Duke Energy executives repeatedly apologized and owned up to the situation that caused thousands in North and South Carolina to be without power during a bitter cold snap leading up to the Christmas holiday weekend. The admissions came during a hearing Tuesday before the North Carolina Utilities Commission.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to testimony before the NCUC, high winds had already left 300,000 without power during the day of Dec. 23 before a severe cold snap later that night and into Dec. 24.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The linked story does not explain why high winds left 300,000 people without power. This may be a failure of wind turbines, as they must be shut down if the wind blows too hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI want to express how sorry we are for what our customers experienced,\u201d said Julie Janson, executive vice president, and CEO, of Duke Energy Carolinas. \u201cWinter storm Elliott was an extremely powerful event with a unique confluence of high winds, extreme temperature drops, and other conditions that forced us to curtail power as a last resort.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cCurtailing power\u201d means imposing rolling blackouts on Duke\u2019s customers. A rolling blackout is when a utility intentionally cuts power to a particular area in order to prevent the entire grid from collapsing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Duke Energy\u2019s \u201cnuclear fleet\u201d was reliable, but solar generation was unable to meet peak demand because it occurred before sunrise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Imagine that! It\u2019s always coldest before the dawn, or something like that. The uselessness of solar energy is blindingly obvious, but utilities are happy to invest billions in solar panels and reap guaranteed profits at the expense of their customers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rolling blackouts are starting to become common, and they will only increase as long as our country continues its insane commitment to unreliable \u201cgreen\u201d energy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The constant emphasis on green energy by the Biden administration is going to turn America into a third-world country. We have the capability to keep everyone warm in winter if we are willing to use our God-given natural resources to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday, John Hinderaker at Power Line Blog posted an article about the Christmas season energy brownouts in North and South Carolina. The article reports: Duke Energy customers in North and South Carolina experienced rolling blackouts over Christmas. Duke is … Continue reading →<\/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":[16152,11865,1808,625,16153,8203,448],"class_list":["post-48773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas-brownout","tag-duke-energy","tag-john-hinderaker","tag-north-carolina","tag-north-carolina-utilities-commission","tag-power-line-blog","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773","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=48773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48781,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773\/revisions\/48781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}