{"id":1505741,"date":"2022-06-06T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1505741"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T20:49:54","slug":"rolling-summer-blackouts-expected-across-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rolling-summer-blackouts-expected-across-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Summer Blackouts Expected Across United States"},"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\">14<\/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%2Frolling-summer-blackouts-expected-across-united-states%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=1505741&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--><p class=\"p1\">The U.S. electric grid continues to be a major point of concern. A recent study warns that two-thirds of the U.S. is at risk for electricity blackouts this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOverall, the biggest thing is that is the loss of nuclear and coal plants that those provide the U.S. with what\u2019s so called as baseload power, which means that when the sun isn\u2019t shining or there\u2019s a drought, we still have a supply of power in the U.S., this could have sensibly be replaced by natural gas,\u201d Breanne Deppisch, Energy and Environment Reporter of the Washington Examiner, told The Daily Wire. \u201cWe just don\u2019t have enough of that in the U.S. right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) put out its most recent reliability assessment for this summer. It turns out more states are at risk of rolling blackouts than was previously thought. The NERC report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nerc.com\/news\/Headlines%20DL\/May%2018%202022%20SRA%20Announcement.pdf\">found<\/a> that the midwest and south, is at a \u201chigh risk\u201d for blackouts this summer and areas of the west, including Texas, are at an \u201celevated risk\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A rolling blackout is a blackout done intentionally so that the grid isn\u2019t harmed in the long run. This happens when there\u2019s not enough power being created to meet the high demand. Rolling blackouts have happened in California for a few years now. In Texas, there was the historic freeze in 2021 where lots of people were without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In Texas, ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, handles the state\u2019s entire power grid, which includes electricity generators. It\u2019s an independent nonprofit regulated by the Public Utility Commission, whose board members were appointed by Governor Greg Abbott (R-TX). The generators sell power to electric providers who sell it to the customer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">ERCOT recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/business\/2022\/05\/17\/ercot-claims-texas-power-grid-prepared-summer-heat-weather-high-temperatures\/9805797002\/\">said<\/a> that the grid is stable and that it should be able to supply enough energy \u201cunder normal system conditions\u201d and most times of high demand during the summer and some extreme weather conditions, but at the same time, they did ask people to conserve power and told some of their energy generators to hold off on maintenance which would require plants to go offline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThis is part of ERCOT and the PUC being more proactive, more communicative with Texans,\u00a0to make sure that everybody\u00a0knows the situation on the grid and what they can do to help ensure reliability,\u201d PUC Chairman Peter Lake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/business\/2022\/05\/17\/ercot-claims-texas-power-grid-prepared-summer-heat-weather-high-temperatures\/9805797002\/\">said<\/a> during a press conference<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe got through last summer, we got through last winter, and we\u2019re going to get through this summer \u2014 we are better prepared than we have ever been before,\u201d Lake said. \u201cThat\u2019s how we can say with absolute confidence to Texans the lights will stay on this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Above average temperatures are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/50408195\/blackouts-possible-this-summer-due-to-heat-and-extreme-weather-officials-warn\">expected<\/a> for much of the U.S. this summer which puts stress on the grid, plus a 22-year drought in the west will cause hydro generators to release lower than average energy production; wildfire season is expected in the late summer months and will also contribute more to power issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A lot of the problems have to do with environmental policies and priorities that don\u2019t always line up with the reality of the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some are calling for funding from the huge infrastructure package to go towards fixing the grid, because energy isn\u2019t just an issue in the summer. This isn\u2019t a problem that\u2019s going away anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. electric grid continues to be a major point of concern. A recent study warns that two-thirds of the U.S. is at risk for electricity blackouts this summer. \u201cOverall, the biggest thing is that is the loss of nuclear and coal plants that those provide the U.S. with what\u2019s so called as baseload power, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":1505773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505741","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\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1505773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}