California’s a place renowned for its woolly-headed thinking, not least its suicidal obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar.
A couple weeks back, during a blistering Californian Summer, a spike in electricity demand (think millions of air conditioners running at full tilt) combined with calm weather, desert cloud cover and, later, sunset to leave millions of Californians sweating it out in the dark. No doubt wondering about where their next kilowatt might come from.
Not content with wrecking their power supply, Californian policymakers now want to, of all things, force an increase in demand for the most costly and erratically supplied electricity in the US. Robert Bryce takes us on another trip down the rabbit hole that is Californian energy policy.
Blackouts Expose Perils And Costs Of California’s ‘Electrify Everything’ Push
Forbes
Robert Bryce
18 August 2020
The blackouts that hit California over the past few days exposed the fragility…
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