Many energy experts and analysts have warned for years now that America’s power grid will not be able to accommodate the explosive growth in electricity demand it faces without a huge increase in generation capacity. It certainly will not be able to expand so dramatically in the absurdly aggressive time frames required by Joe Biden’s Green New Deal-based energy and climate plans.
The roadblocks to sourcing the dramatically higher volumes of critical minerals like copper required have been apparent for at least half a decade now. More recently, concerns have arisen about the worsening crisis in supply chains for high voltage transformers. Despite these and many other warning signs, though, the lazy legacy media that dominates public discourse has remained largely silent on the matter, preferring instead to continue parroting the rosy, Unicorn-filled narratives pushed by climate alarm groups and the leftwing billionaires who fund them.
But last week, the ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ folks at the Washington Post belatedly leapt into the fray with a major story recognizing the reality that “America is running out of power.” The story correctly identifies the rise of power-gobbling data centers as major drivers of explosive demand growth, along with grid-draining electric vehicle charging and green tech manufacturing facilities. The drive for decarbonisation also means that many other previously fossil fuelled activities, such as heating, are more and more being done with electricity. The challenge grid managers face is how to expand generation capacity in not only the volume but also the speed required to meet the public need.
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