{"id":1495606,"date":"2022-05-28T08:15:59","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T12:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495606"},"modified":"2022-05-28T08:16:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T12:16:09","slug":"summer-power-blackouts-may-be-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/summer-power-blackouts-may-be-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Power Blackouts May Be on the Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsummer-power-blackouts-may-be-on-the-horizon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1495606&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p><em>By Casey Harper (The Center Square)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As energy and gas prices continue to rise, industry insiders are warning that blackouts and \u201cenergy emergencies\u201d may be in store for millions of Americans this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The North American Electric Reliability Corporation released a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerc.com\/pa\/RAPA\/ra\/Reliability%20Assessments%20DL\/NERC_SRA_2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0this week evaluating the possibility of blackouts, saying that there is a \u201chigh risk of energy emergencies during peak summer conditions\u201d in many parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/jp-morgan-warns-gas-prices-about-to-get-much-much-worse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JP Morgan Warns Gas Prices About To Get Much, Much Worse<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSystem operators in [Midcontinent Independents System Operator] are more likely to need operating mitigations, such as load modifying resources or non-firm imports, to meet reserve requirements under normal peak summer conditions,\u201d the group\u2019s report said. \u201cMore extreme temperatures, higher generation outages, or low wind conditions expose the MISO North and Central areas to higher risk of temporary operator-initiated load shedding to maintain system reliability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the summer months, the need for things like air conditioning energy soars. At the same time, Americans are already experiencing record high gas prices and energy prices that have spiked since President Joe Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics\u2019s latest data reports that energy prices have increased faster than any other price in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energy index rose 30.3 percent over the last year, and the food index increased 9.4 percent, the largest 12-month increase since the period ending April 1981,\u201d BLS said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"subscribe\" class=\"email-signup inarticle\">\n<h4>Support Conservative Voices!<\/h4>\n<h5><strong>Sign up to receive the latest<\/strong> political news, insight, and commentary delivered directly to your inbox.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<p>Experts say higher energy costs, and the greater possibility of blackouts, are likely this summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe combination of much higher natural gas prices \u2013 50% higher than last year, and increased electricity demand, along with continued retirements of fossil and nuclear plants, means that wholesale electric prices this summer are likely to soar,\u201d said Jonathan Lesser, an energy expert at the Manhattan Institute. \u201cSome of the largest power system operators, including in California and the Midwest, are also warning about possible rolling blackouts because of too little generating capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe result will be higher retail prices for consumers and businesses, with the latter contributing to more inflation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Infrastructure damage also could lead to potential blackouts this summer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/thepoliticalinsider.com\/more-regulation-will-not-solve-our-energy-problems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More Regulation Will Not Solve Our Energy Problems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestoration continues on a 4-mile section of 500 kV transmission line that was damaged by a tornado during severe storms on December 10, 2021,\u201d the NERC report said. \u201cThe transmission outage affects 1,000 MW of firm transfers between the Midwestern and Southern MISO system that includes parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The transmission line is expected to be restored at the end of June 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, droughts in some areas are making hydroelectric power more scarce.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDry hydrological conditions threaten the availability of hydroelectricity for transfers throughout the Western Interconnection,\u201d the report said. \u201cSome assessment areas, including WECC\u2019s California-Mexico (CA\/MX) and Southwest Reserve Sharing Group (SRSG), depend on substantial electricity imports to meet demand on hot summer evenings and other times when variable energy resource (e.g., wind, solar) output is diminishing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Casey Harper (The Center Square) As energy and gas prices continue to rise, industry insiders are warning that blackouts and \u201cenergy emergencies\u201d may be in store for millions of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":1894307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1894307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}