Electricity (including EMP, electro magnetic pulse, CME)

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(4) EAST COAST STATES TRY TO HEAD OFF POWER SHORTAGES: State energy officials from Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware, Rhode Island, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Maryland, and Massachusetts signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on regional power transmission infrastructure planning and development, to increase grid reliability and resilience.
New York City officials said the city government will decrease energy use at government buildings to ease stress on the power grid during peak summer demand.

Virginia’s Dominion Energy announced a request for proposals to build new nuclear reactors at the company’s North Anna nuclear plant, north of Richmond, VA, to meet a potential spike in energy demand.

Why It Matters: Northeast state officials are now taking the threat of exploding power demand, the likelihood of shortages, and significantly increased prices seriously. However, plant and transmission infrastructure construction is an expensive and time consuming process, making it unlikely the Northeast will avoid power shortages. Most Northeast states have a 100% clean energy mandate, with some starting as early as 2030. – R.C.

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(3) VIRGINIA UTILITY TO BUILD NEW FOSSIL FUEL “PEAKER” PLANTS: Virginia’s Dominion Energy said it plans to build up to eight new liquified natural gas (LNG) “peaker” power plants, which Dominion is calling reliability centers, over the next ten years to meet increasing power demand.

Dominion spokesman Jeremy Slayton said if Dominion “can’t meet that demand that means there will be blackouts.”
Virginia Sierra Club Communications Director Tim Cywinski said Dominion is planning construction of the “peaker” plants to take advantage of an exception to Virginia’s clean energy mandate.

Why It Matters: Virginia’s power demand is projected to double over the next few decades, driven by data center construction. According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), data centers in ten states, including Virginia, are driving the spike in commercial power demand across the U.S. since 2019. Building new fossil fuel plants is a major reversal of state and federal efforts to implement clean energy mandates, and other states with reliability exceptions in their clean energy mandates could follow suit when power shortages start in 2025. – R.C.

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(2) FERC COMMISSIONER: U.S. HEADING FOR ENERGY CATASTROPHE: During a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing yesterday, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Mark Christie said the U.S. “is heading for potentially catastrophic consequences in terms of the reliability of our electric power system” due to the retirement of dispatchable fossil fuel power sources at an unsustainable pace, and the U.S. is seeing power demand increases “like we’ve never seen in the last 20 years.”

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) said FERC’s recent regional transmission planning Order 1920 will drive up power costs and increase grid fragility by prioritizing an “environmental agenda” and “socializing costs.”

Why It Matters: On our current trajectory, power demand is set to far outstrip supply, and the focus of the Biden administration and some states on replacing fossil fuel power with green energy alternatives will not close that gap. The increased energy costs are also likely to be spread around to all Americans. Christie points out another important issue, that one gigawatt of green energy cannot replace one lost gigawatt of fossil fuel power, so connecting current green energy sources to the grid will not prevent power shortages. – R.C.

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Trump needs to point this out big time

and leave out "Climate Change is a sham"

for God's sake

he always has to say something right but then screw it up and if he did not he'd (we'd) be up by 15.

[Crafty_Dog]

AGREE!!!

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(4) NEW YORK’S HOCHUL CONSIDERS DELAYING CLEAN ENERGY MANDATE: New York Governor Kathy Hochul said the financial impact of climate initiatives on energy companies and residents justify “going a little bit slower” on state environmental policy, even if it means falling short of targets set by state law.
According to a new New York Independent System Operator (ISO) report, New York’s power supply will fall at least 1,000 megawatts short of demand by 2034.
Why It Matters: The power shortage situation is now bad enough that New York and other states like Virginia are considering delaying clean energy milestones and building new fossil fuel power plants. However, these steps are unlikely to prevent power shortages starting in 2025. The New York ISO report is very likely optimistic, given other developments in the region. – R.C.

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/even-the-cockroaches-won-t-survive-expert-discusses-hezbollah-s-new-emp-weapon/ar-BB1qL9Jx?ei=6

also see:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An5Bu5azoZY&t=53s

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(3) 20% OF AMERICANS FACE BALLOONING ENERGY PRICES IN 2025: The results of PJM Interconnection’s power auction today, and energy analysts predict power prices could be two to four times higher than last year’s decade low of $28.92 per megawatt-day impacting 65 million Americans from New Jersey to Illinois.

“PJM has been expressing its concern about a supply and demand mismatch for quite some time now,” and PJM was unaware of the impending closure of the Brandon Shores coal-fired power plant in Maryland, spokeswoman Susan Buehler said.
PJM Interconnection is imposing new rules on limiting power the operator will purchase from older power plants and plants that have had outages due to weather.

Why It Matters: Federal and state officials, and utilities are increasingly warning that power supply is falling well below demand. Power prices are likely to hit regions of the U.S. retiring fossil fuel power plants first, like the northeast and mid-Atlantic. At the same time, Americans are paying significantly higher prices for power, the supply will continue to fall due to plant retirements and spiking demand from data centers and industry. – R.C.

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(3) RI POWER BILLS TO JUMP 23% THIS WINTER: The Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission approved a 23% increase on electricity rates starting 1 October.

“We share in the concerns about the high price of energy supply — primarily driven by geo-political events around the globe as well as supply and demand,” Rhode Island Energy spokeswoman Caroline Pretyman said.

Why It Matters: Electricity prices are likely to increase before shortages start hitting in 2025. The northeast remains the most vulnerable region in the short term due to fossil fuel power plant retirements, and the mid-Atlantic is close behind. Electricity prices in the northeast and mid-Atlantic are likely to climb higher next year, Power capacity prices in the mid-Atlantic have jumped significantly, and are likely to increase again during PJM Interconnection’s December capacity auction. – R.C.

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Chargepoint Holdings CEO Rick Wilmer said there is a rash of copper thefts at electric vehicle (EV) charging stations “all over the country.” Electrify America said copper thefts at the 1,000 stations it owns rose from 79 in 2023 to 215 so far in 2024. (Reports from charging companies point to likely organized copper theft targeting charging stations, similar to copper thefts from power lines and oil sites in west Texas. Organized thefts from energy infrastructure are likely to increase, due to criminal organizations taking advantage of the disrupted southern border. – R.C.)

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/

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Hitachi Energy announced plans to expand transformer and electrical equipment plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and build a new distribution transformer plant in Mexico. “Demand for electrical equipment, including transformers and switchgear, is surging globally, and significantly in North America,” and Hitachi’s highest priority is expanding production to meet future needs, Hitachi CEO Andreas Schierenbeck said.

[Crafty_Dog]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBfxY3b3R1g

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(2) DATA CENTERS REPURPOSING COAL POWER PLANTS: According to a new report from data analytics firm Wood Mackenzie, the U.S. economy expanded by a cumulative 24% in the 2010s while electricity demand remained unchanged, and this trend is set to reverse.
Vice Chair for Energy Transition and Power Chris Seiple said the U.S. electric utility industry “has been caught flat-footed” while the cumulative impact of data center development, reindustrialization, and electrification could result in electricity demand growth of 4% to 15% per year through 2029, depending on the region.
Wood Mackenzie and the Solar Energy Industries Association said “a lack of labor availability, high voltage equipment constraints and interconnection delays” will constrain future growth of solar energy in the United States. According to Wood Mackenzie, 53 gigawatts of solar projects were delayed in 2024 due to labor shortages and long lead times to procure equipment.
Why It Matters: According to Wood Mackenzie, there are three major constraints on utilities meeting electricity demand growth:
The slow pace of connecting new power generation to grids
The scale of planned coal power plant retirements
And the availability of equipment like transformers and breakers to connect new plants and large power loads
The report points out that data centers have actually displaced some coal power plants to take advantage of existing interconnection facilities, and if this becomes a trend it will exacerbate the electricity supply and demand imbalance. In a September meeting with data center operators and AI developers, the White House said the Department of Energy (DOE) is working with data centers on repurposing retired and retiring coal power plants to repurpose them for data center development. – R.C.

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"In a September meeting with data center operators and AI developers, the White House said the Department of Energy (DOE) is working with data centers on repurposing retired and retiring coal power plants to repurpose them for data center development. "

God Almighty

As usual the LEFT screws us over.
Bet everything on wind solar
and when that, as predicted fails ,  quietly get coal again because as we all knew we are not ready to transition aay from it.  Also nat gas nuclear ........

 

The LEFtist tech companies who supported Dems = > oh we need more energy now so we can make fortunes in AI
 

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Guess they are seeking something more reliable than solar and wind for their businesses, go figure:

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/10/google-amazon-give-up-on-national-grid-ignore-renewables-and-buy-their-own-nuclear-plants/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-amazon-give-up-on-national-grid-ignore-renewables-and-buy-their-own-nuclear-plants

[Crafty_Dog]

“Remember, on a national level, we expect we are going to need to add 900 gigawatts of new generation to the grid by 2040,” NextEra Energy CEO John Ketchum said in an earnings call Thursday. “There are only a few nuclear plants that can be recommissioned in an economic way,” and even if 100% of those nuclear power plants are successfully recommissioned it will only meet 1% of new power demand, Ketchum added. According to Ketchum, small modular nuclear reactors are not expected to be commercially viable “until the later part of the next decade.”