Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S.

[2506]

This article along with others reinforces my belief that if you want job security and decent pay, become a lineman or an electrician.

Many years ago when I worked for the state of Washington, I recall seeing the highest-paid state employee NOT coaching a sport was a lineman.

 

[The Heretic]

It would have been nice if the article had mentioned that. The whole article was about "flat rate", which isn't metered use. It should have said "service charge" if that is what is at issue.

Yeah - I didn't pick up on that until after I read some comments about it on Redditt (after I posted it here).

Just goes to show that when small details with big impacts like that are left out (on purpose?), they have a large influence on the understanding of an event.

Still, it doesn't make it fair to charge more just because their income is higher.

BTW - I pay a $20 fee to use $5 of electricity in my shop, because PGE requires a separate account/meter for shops/outbuildings. I pay - IIRC - $12 for service to my residence, which uses $50-$250 per month (I have an electric furnace for heating, so winters I use a lot more electricity after the firewood runs out - this spring has been very wet and cold, so I am still using the furnace).

 

[albin25]

Seems a more common sense/logical approach would be to make the residential "service fee" a percentage of the KWH/Therms used, with a "fee-less" realistic usage baseline, to ostensibly cover "low income" and "green" customers.

That would, of course, require commonsense and logic from politicians and their bureaucrats ….
…. so THAT'S not gonna happen.

 

[ma96782]

BUT, But, but.......



Aloha, Mark

 

[The Heretic]

California utilities commission rejects solar microgrid proposal

The commission deemed Sunnova's application to be an attempt to create a monopoly, while simultaneously showing affinity toward investor-owned utility-run microgrids.

pv-magazine-usa.com

No surprise that the PUC votes that small microgrids are a monopoly that threatens and competes with the huge grid monopolies that serve the state. Heaven forbid that small communities should have their own power suppliers.

 

[solv3nt]

California utilities commission rejects solar microgrid proposal

The commission deemed Sunnova's application to be an attempt to create a monopoly, while simultaneously showing affinity toward investor-owned utility-run microgrids.

pv-magazine-usa.com

No surprise that the PUC votes that small microgrids are a monopoly that threatens and competes with the huge grid monopolies that serve the state. Heaven forbid that small communities should have their own power suppliers.

Yes and no. Having dealt with many solar companies, I'll say you're really not missing out on anything. Additionally, per the article, the microgrid would be a utility that would not have any oversight. The rate payer would be at the whims of a solar company. Having seen many solar companies rise and fall, I would agree with the committee on this.

California already allows, and has for as long as I've been practicing, the ability to be an independent power producer that sells to the utility.

 

[ATCclears]

The NERC report is an alarm about the Biden Administration and states moving full-speed ahead on the green-energy transition. Maybe when the power does go out, they will stop hitting snooze.

Opinion | Your Coming Summer of Blackouts

The grid monitors say two-thirds of the U.S. risks electricity outages.

www.wsj.com

 

[jkor]

Everyone should buy electric they tell us, while not increasing capacity.

 

[Longwalkhome]

Just paid my monthly electric bill and it was $78. I use gas for cooking, heating and hot water so I don't use a lot of electricity.

 

[American123]

One thing they don't say about electric, is that generally the wealthy own electric cars with the prices being what they are for them, and electric rates are inevitably going up as more demand takes place to charge those. Since supply remains what it is, the middle and low income families paying their electric bill are getting charged the difference.

 

[DunRanull]

One thing they don't say about electric, is that generally the wealthy own electric cars with the prices being what they are for them, and electric rates are inevitably going up as more demand takes place to charge those. Since supply remains what it is, the middle and low income families paying their electric bill are getting charged the difference.

Eat the rich!

 

[American123]

Eat the rich!

I'm perfectly fine with people being "rich," it's the government taking my money and subsidizing others (poor, middle class, rich, businesses, corporations, foreign people and foreign governments, etc) that bothers me.

The issue isn't the existence of rich people, it's the existence of a government with a monopoly on 'lawful' use of violence and that will kill me for not paying taxes (see Walter Williams commentary on that if confused)

 

[Bacchus]

huge grid monopolies that serve the state.

Socialism has always been the ultimate monopoly.

 

[Mikej]

I'm perfectly fine with people being "rich," it's the government taking my money and subsidizing others (poor, middle class, rich, businesses, corporations, foreign people and foreign governments, etc) that bothers me.

The issue isn't the existence of rich people, it's the existence of a government with a monopoly on 'lawful' use of violence and that will kill me for not paying taxes (see Walter Williams commentary on that if confused)

To add to that...
I'm not jealous of the rich. I don't hate rich people. I hate that "Elites" have control of everything. People that don't know what it's like to have to wait for pay-day to pay bills, and/or save money for a camping trip/vacation.

 

[The Heretic]

I'm perfectly fine with people being "rich," it's the government taking my money and subsidizing others (poor, middle class, rich, businesses, corporations, foreign people and foreign governments, etc) that bothers me.

The issue isn't the existence of rich people, it's the existence of a government with a monopoly on 'lawful' use of violence and that will kill me for not paying taxes (see Walter Williams commentary on that if confused)

My turn at imitating a broken record:


NO income taxes on anything - verboten.
Flat sales tax on ALL consumption of goods and services.
NO exceptions, no minimums, no maximums, no subsidies, no deductions.
EVERYBODY (and every entity) pays regardless of income, income source, non-profit, etc.
Government must implement a budget without deficits and the only way it can borrow $ is by selling voluntary bonds.
No subsidies, including welfare.

 

[Longwalkhome]

Being the most cynical person here, I question most every thing governments do. Today's news that Great Britain is being flooded with 600k of immigrants has a real similarity to our border problems. You have to wonder how much more electricity will be used by the millions of migrants flooding our border? If our grid is struggling now then why increase the load with millions of migrants? Plus we are paying for their electricity.

If we had good government that worked on infrastructure we would have no power problems.

Finland Went From Energy Shortage To Negative Power Prices. Here’s How They Did It.{nuclear power plant cones online}

freerepublic.com

 

[nammac]

Being the most cynical person here, I question most every thing governments do. Today's news that Great Britain is being flooded with 600k of immigrants has a real similarity to our border problems. You have to wonder how much more electricity will be used by the millions of migrants flooding our border? If our grid is struggling now then why increase the load with millions of migrants? Plus we are paying for their electricity.

If we had good government that worked on infrastructure we would have power problems.

Finland Went From Energy Shortage To Negative Power Prices. Here’s How They Did It.{nuclear power plant cones online}

freerepublic.com

Tens of Millions of migrants, the push for electric vehicles, shutting down of fossil fuel fired power generation, destruction of hydropower and a crumbling electrical infrastructure…

What could possibly go wrong…

 

[jkor]

Eat the rich!

Isn't that what Communism promised?

 

[The Heretic]

Why the U.S. Electric Grid Isn’t Ready for the Energy Transition

The current system makes it hard to build the long-distance power lines needed to transport wind and solar nationwide.

www.nytimes.com

 

[P7M13]

To add to that...
I'm not jealous of the rich. I don't hate rich people. I hate that "Elites" have control of everything. People that don't know what it's like to have to wait for pay-day to pay bills, and/or save money for a camping trip/vacation.

When Russia attacked Ukraine, two of my children were parroting MSM and decrying the "oligarchs". I pointed out that those oligarchs would be called Billionaires over here, and worshiped.