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.

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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.

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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.