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Electricity Costs Soar Across Much of Illinois as Risk of Brownouts Loom
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Electricity Costs Soar Across Much Of Illinois As Risk Of Brownouts Loom - ZubuBrothers
Authored by Mark Glennon, founder of Wirepoints,Critics of Illinois’ aggressive effort to shift to renewable sources for making electricity have long said
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Critics of Illinois’ aggressive effort to shift to renewable sources for making electricity have long said it’s like flying an airplane while trying to build it.
That airplane crashed faster than even they expected. Electricity bills and the risk of brownouts are jumping quickly in Illinois, and it’s not just green energy skeptics saying so.
The most significant warning came recently from the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, or MISO, which oversees the power grid for Illinois and much of the Midwest. Their warning was contained in a recent forecast by the North American Electric Reliability Corp., a regulatory authority that monitors risks to the grid, and was summarized by the Washington Post as follows:
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News 25 in Peoria reported that central Illinois consumers “will pay double for energy starting this month, as a deal mitigating costs for many communities expires, with no new contract in sight. Communities like Peoria, Morton and East Peoria all participate in municipal aggregation programs.”
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Today, nukes supply about 55% of Illinois electricity, but they are all scheduled to be out of service by around 2050. Getting new ones built, however, would require a federal government effort to streamline the morass of regulatory and litigation hurdles nukes face, which make their construction nearly impossible.
So far, however, we’ve seen no interest in any of that from the Pritzker Administration or the ruling majority in the General Assembly. For now, it appears they haven’t yet recognized that the airplane they were trying to fly while building already crashed.
Commentary:
Just wait until Illinois puts about 50,000 energy sucking electric cars on the road.
Why in the world is 'Entergy' (supplier for the MISO in Louisiana and part of Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas) experiencing a high risk of brownouts?
This is supposedly misinformation spread by evil utility companies and oil and coal companies to try to stop the Green Revolution and that conservatives will buy into their lies.
It’s amazing to me the gigantic gap in understanding and opinion in the country.
Incompetence on the part of Prog Maoist Democrat politicians in D.C.? Indeed, it's true.
If you think it's bad in Summer, wait until winter when temperatures plummet in the northern cities below zero and Americans cannot afford to pay for heating their homes. Just how many deaths will be attributed to the Greenies?
WSJ warns rolling blackouts coming to America; transition to “green energy” FAILING
As the United States continues its transition to “cleaner,” “greener” forms of energy, the electricity grid is becoming increasingly more unreliable. Power-grid operators all across the country say they can no longer keep up with demand since wind and solar power are inadequate. The consequence...
newenergyreport.com
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Opinion | America’s Summer of Rolling Blackouts
Green energy policies are making the nation’s electric-power grid increasingly unstable.
www.wsj.com
