NERC’s 10-year reliability assessment warns environmental regulations and energy policies “that are overly rigid” can jeopardize “the orderly transition of the resource mix.”
At the current rate of retirement and the current rate if installation, America is a third world status for blackouts and brown out for a developed nation. With rules, regulations, laws, tax schemes, we are creating a dual system that are going to have a hard time matching supply and demand. Given that fact the majority of our grub comes from baseload, we can take mild penetration of intermittency, at most roughly 20% before grid reliability fails. We can look at three areas as example the Texas, California, & the northeast. For the most part each area is an energy island for various reasons, but all are self impose.
At the current rate of retirement and the current rate if installation, America is a third world status for blackouts and brown out for a developed nation. With rules, regulations, laws, tax schemes, we are creating a dual system that are going to have a hard time matching supply and demand. Given that fact the majority of our grub comes from baseload, we can take mild penetration of intermittency, at most roughly 20% before grid reliability fails. We can look at three areas as example the Texas, California, & the northeast. For the most part each area is an energy island for various reasons, but all are self impose.