2021-12-10

Baizuo World is Collapsing

Now New England may face enforced blackouts this winter.

Power Mag:ISO-NE Warns Fuel Supply Issues May Threaten Winter Power System Reliability

New England faces a precarious fuel supply risk that could necessitate emergency actions if a severe prolonged cold snap hits the region this winter, ISO New England (ISO-NE) has warned.

The regional grid operator expects power demand will peak at 19,710 MW during average winter weather conditions of 10F, but if temperatures plunge below 5F, demand could jump to 20,329 MW. Peak projections from the 2021-2022 winter season assessment are about 2% lower than last year’s forecast, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts a milder than average winter, it said. “New England’s all-time winter peak record was set during a January 2004 cold snap when electricity usage reached 22,818 MW,” the independent system operator (ISO) noted.

However, as Gordon van Welie, president and CEO of ISO New England, told reporters on Dec. 6, the grid operator is cautiously watching three “variables that could put the region in a more precarious position than past winters and force the ISO take emergency actions, up to and including controlled power outages.”

...The first variable involves “how much natural gas will be available for gas generators during cold weather,” van Welie said. The region is prone to natural gas pipeline constraints when it experiences simultaneous demand for natural gas for heating homes and operating gas-fired power plants, he noted. “Heating customers, who paid for the pipeline infrastructure, are served first and the remaining gas is available for electric plants. When pipeline gas isn’t available, or when the price of gas is very high, the region uses other fuel sources, such as oil or liquefied natural gas [LNG],” he said.

New England has blocked new pipelines that could bring gas from shale production in nearby Pennsylvania and New York. There are gas shortages in some areas that prevent business expansion, as in no new restaurants because the gas company can't supply. Here's one such story from five yars ago: Columbia Gas, Berkshire Gas working to end hook-up moratoriums in Franklin, Hampshire counties. Now the region is at the point where power may be cut. Back to Power Mag:
A more pronounced concern is that ISO-NE’s grid has changed at a rapid pace owing to shifting patterns in energy use and a rapidly changing resource mix to meet increased clean energy targets set by individual New England states. Variable energy resources, including of wind and solar, and natural gas generators, with operational and infrastructure limitations on their energy production, have replaced much of the region’s baseload nuclear, coal, and oil resources that had on-site fuel storage.
The lights are going out in Baizuo-dominated Clownworld. Will the public turn on the Baizuo or will the Baizuo successfully psyop them into blaming it on racism, climate change, oil companies, covid, or some newly invented boogeyman?

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