How Biden, Harris and Granholm Made a Looming Grid Crisis Immeasurably Worse

Last May - that’s may of 2023, not this year - I wrote a story at Forbes about the looming crisis in the US power grid due to a shortage of high-capacity power transformers and their mucked-up supply chains.

At the time, it was a crisis that had been developing for more than 2 years - since late 2020. It was a rising issue the U.S. Department of Energy, led by Secretary Jennifer Granholm, was about to make immensely worse by forcing manufacturers and power companies to comply with new, completely unneeded efficiency standard imposed on products that already function at well over 99% efficiency.

Republicans in congress were becoming increasingly alarmed by the DOE effort, which would exacerbate the supply issue by forcing makers of these scarce transformers to retool entire factories and create entirely new components in order to comply.

Here’s an excerpt from that May, 2023 story: