They're going for an energy monoculture - it will be more fragile.
Another example, they're putting a large wind farm off the coast of Virginia, which is regularly hit with hurricanes. Many hurricanes go right on past the land without hitting the land, but will probably take out the wind farm. So, in the future, we'll get power outages caused by hurricanes that don't even make landfall, and those outages will mean we won't be able to drive our mandaged EVs around.
"Centralization" is a common theme in California governance: centralized energy, centralized municipal planning, centralized healthcare payments. Voters here can't get enough of it.
Of course, they do not consider the failure modes.
This silly report by a Fox news outlet in Rockford, Illinois is doing mix-n-match on current headlines and wants very badly to own the libs.
Trying to turn this to a positive discussion purpose seems like extra work. Here's a try: where I live at least (LA, serviced by LADWP), we do see intermittent power outages - outages of many minutes happen probably every year where I live.
Because we really do want to get people off burning fossil fuels, we'll need to work on increasing reliability of the power grid.
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Great failure mode.
Of course, they do not consider the failure modes.
Trying to turn this to a positive discussion purpose seems like extra work. Here's a try: where I live at least (LA, serviced by LADWP), we do see intermittent power outages - outages of many minutes happen probably every year where I live.
Because we really do want to get people off burning fossil fuels, we'll need to work on increasing reliability of the power grid.