{"id":54780,"date":"2020-08-22T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54780"},"modified":"2020-08-22T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T17:52:37","slug":"rolling-blackouts-in-california-show-how-reliance-on-solar-and-wind-power-can-backfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54780","title":{"rendered":"Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"Headline\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2020-08-22-rolling-california-blackouts-reliance-solar-wind-power-backfire.html\">Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-larg wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/91\/2020\/08\/Work-Installing-Solar-Panel-Wind-Green-Power.jpg\" alt=\"Image: Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire\" \/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\">\n<div class=\"HYATQMENFJRV\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/\">Natural News<\/a>) California issued its first rolling blackouts in nearly 20 years last week as the state\u2019s grid operator tried to keep the power system from complete collapse in the midst of a heat wave, and some are pointing out that the situation demonstrates the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wattsupwiththat.com\/2020\/08\/20\/california-blackout-fury-its-not-just-the-heat-its-also-the-anti-nuclear-power-stupidity\/\">failures of green energy<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The rolling blackouts affected upwards of 2 million Californians. Many of the outages took place in the afternoon, when power demand peaked as people starting turning up their air conditioning at the same time that solar power supplies started slowing down as the sun set.<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s three biggest utilities \u2013 Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas &amp; Electric, and San Diego Gas &amp; Electric \u2013 cut off power to homes and businesses for roughly an hour at a time until the close of an emergency declaration, and this was followed by a second outage.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, erratic output from the state\u2019s wind farms failed to make up the gap. Around a third of the state\u2019s electricity comes from renewable sources thanks to state law mandates, and these alternatives proved incapable of keeping up during peak power usage. In the past, utilities and grid operators in the state bought extra electricity from other states when it fell short, but the vast size of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.naturalnews.com\/weather_extremes.html\">heat wave<\/a>\u00a0meant that other states were also reaching their limits and had none to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Gavin Newsom ordered an investigation into the outages seen in the state over the weekend, vowing to uncover the cause. However, Republican Assemblyman Jim Patterson of Fresno, who serves as the Committee on Utilities and Energy\u2019s Vice Chair, said that the problem can be traced to California\u2019s reduced dependence on natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling blackouts in California show how reliance on solar and wind power can backfire (Natural News) California issued its first rolling blackouts in nearly 20 years last week as the state\u2019s grid operator tried to keep the power system from complete collapse in the midst of a heat wave, and some are pointing out that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30210,30211,79,101,2956,30212,1103,263,271,1406,30214,30213,8407,1574,1859,2654],"class_list":["post-54780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-badclimate","tag-badscience","tag-blackouts","tag-california","tag-climate-science","tag-collapsifornia","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-environment-2","tag-green-energy","tag-isabelle-z","tag-libtards","tag-natural-news","tag-power-grid","tag-solar-power","tag-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54781,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54780\/revisions\/54781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}