{"id":63487,"date":"2022-09-11T10:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63487"},"modified":"2022-09-11T10:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T15:53:26","slug":"get-ready-for-blackouts-from-london-to-la-as-the-global-energy-crisis-overwhelms-grids-and-sends-energy-prices-skyrocketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63487","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for blackouts from London to LA, as the global energy crisis overwhelms grids and sends energy prices skyrocketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"post-headline-wrapper\n           default-headline\"><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"post-headline  \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/global-europe-energy-crisis-power-electricity-outages-blackouts-energy-grid-2022-9?r=US&amp;IR=T\">Get ready for blackouts from London to LA, as the global energy crisis overwhelms grids and sends energy prices skyrocketing<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline-wrapper  col-12\">\n<div class=\"byline \" data-e2e-name=\"byline\">\n<div class=\"byline-content\" data-e2e-name=\"byline-content\">\n<div class=\"byline-row\">\n<div class=\"byline-author-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"l-content\" class=\" is-right-rail   with-rail-video-ad\" data-track-page-area=\"Post\" data-post-content=\"\">\n<section class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<article>\n<figure class=\"figure image-figure-image  \" data-type=\"img\" data-e2e-name=\"image-figure-image\" data-media-container=\"image\">\n<div class=\"aspect-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6318a7685a0e5a0018d2dab0?width=700\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1280px) 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6318a7685a0e5a0018d2dab0?width=400&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp 400w, https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6318a7685a0e5a0018d2dab0?width=500&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp 500w, https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6318a7685a0e5a0018d2dab0?width=700&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp 700w, https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6318a7685a0e5a0018d2dab0?width=1000&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp 1000w, https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6318a7685a0e5a0018d2dab0?width=1300&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp 1300w, https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6318a7685a0e5a0018d2dab0?width=2000&amp;format=jpeg&amp;auto=webp 2000w\" alt=\"Illuminated Buildings By River Against Sky During Sunset\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"image-caption headline-bold\" data-e2e-name=\"image-caption\">Part of Manhattan without power, seen from East River Houses.\u00a0<\/figcaption><span class=\"image-source-caption \"><span class=\"image-source headline-regular\" data-e2e-name=\"image-source\">Jonathan Percy\/EyeEm\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/figure>\n<div>\n<section class=\"post-content typography   \" data-track-content=\"\" data-post-type=\"post\">\n<div id=\"piano-inline-content-wrapper\" data-piano-inline-content-wrapper=\"\">\n<section class=\"inline-offer auto-renew-29\" data-offer-key=\"auto-renew-29\" data-component-type=\"inline-offer\" data-place-after-element-selector=\".post-content .content-lock-content p\"><\/section>\n<div data-component-type=\"content-lock\" data-load-strategy=\"exclude\">\n<div class=\"content-lock-content\">\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Climate change and soaring energy prices could make widespread blackouts more common, even in wealthy nations.<\/li>\n<li>Californians narrowly averted statewide blackouts, and Britons impacted by the war in Ukraine will soon pay nearly double for electricity.<\/li>\n<li>As energy costs soar higher, a new age of rolling outages and grid instability looms large.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"formContainer\" class=\"inline-newsletter-signup headline-regular\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"insider_sustainability\" data-list=\"Insider Sustainability\" data-acq-source=\"sustainabilityinlinesignup\"><\/div>\n<p>Stock up on batteries, candles, and non-perishable snacks. Blackouts are coming.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in decades, the western world is preparing for widespread and rolling energy shortages. The US, UK, and EU have all been squeezed by Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine, soaring costs\u00a0for electricity and fuel, and record-breaking heat waves. While fall is just around the corner, the worst of the energy strain is likely still to come.<\/p>\n<p>Even wealthy nations won&#8217;t be spared, at least without broad broad policy change and private-sector overhauls. Add in the accompanying economic costs and extreme health risks, and you have a very difficult situation.<\/p>\n<p>In California, it will materialize as outage warnings and restrictions on your air conditioning. Then in coming years, Texans, Illinoisans, and Missourians will join the suffering of their west coast peers amid sweltering heat and rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>And across Europe and the UK, residents not used to heat waves will either face skyrocketing energy bills or dangerously hot summers \u2014 a situation made worse by their reliance on Russian gas, the flow of which has been essentially cut off entirely.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the US, climate change risks decades of &#8216;extreme danger&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><s><\/s>Amid record-high temperatures on the west coast Tuesday afternoon, California&#8217;s grid operator ISO urged residents to limit their energy use and cautioned that rolling blackouts could arrive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready for blackouts from London to LA, as the global energy crisis overwhelms grids and sends energy prices skyrocketing Part of Manhattan without power, seen from East River Houses.\u00a0Jonathan Percy\/EyeEm\/Getty Images Climate change and soaring energy prices could make widespread blackouts more common, even in wealthy nations. 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