{"id":64475,"date":"2022-12-16T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T22:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64475"},"modified":"2022-12-16T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T22:42:32","slug":"americans-face-elevated-winter-power-outage-risks-from-tight-fuel-supplies-faltering-grid-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64475","title":{"rendered":"Americans Face Elevated Winter Power Outage Risks From Tight Fuel Supplies, Faltering Grid: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Boston-area resident shoveling snow. (AP Photo\/Josh Reynolds)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Americans Face Elevated Winter Power Outage Risks From Tight Fuel Supplies, Faltering Grid: Report<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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As the snow flies and temperatures plummet, regulatory agencies and analysts alike warn that residents in multiple U.S. states are at an elevated risk of dangerous winter\u00a0blackouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

States such as Texas and North Carolina, and also the Great Lakes and New England regions are in the highest risk category, according to a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0from the North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a \u201clarge portion\u201d of the U.S.\u00a0power grid<\/a>\u00a0is at risk of insufficient electricity supplies during peak winter conditions, the agency concluded in the same analysis.<\/p>\n

Although climate change advocates claim that severe weather events are the primary culprit, energy insiders say tight fuel supplies and an outdated electric grid play a critical role in potential blackouts.<\/p>\n

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People take shelter at Gallery Furniture store after winter weather caused electricity blackouts in Houston, on Feb.18, 2021. (Go Nakamura\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Conservative estimates this year put the cost of critical power grid and infrastructure upgrades at\u00a0$4 trillion,<\/a>\u00a0with the use of supplemental nuclear power; the price tag jumps another $500 million without nuclear energy.<\/p>\n

The Biden administration approved a $13 billion stopgap measure on Nov. 18 to \u201cmodernize and expand\u201d the power grid. However, people in the energy industry say it will take months or years for U.S. residents to see the difference.<\/p>\n

Falling Behind<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a significant gap to upgrade aging grid infrastructure to meet net-zero mandates and maintain reliability, and we are running out of time,\u201d analyst\u00a0Kim Getgen told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n

Getgen is the CEO and founder of Innovation Force, which tackles complex issues such as America\u2019s\u00a0energy crisis<\/a>. She says the Biden administration\u2019s infrastructure investment is a good start, but it\u2019s exactly that, just a start.<\/p>\n

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A Boston-area resident shoveling snow. (AP Photo\/Josh Reynolds) Americans Face Elevated Winter Power Outage Risks From Tight Fuel Supplies, Faltering Grid: Report As the snow flies and temperatures plummet, regulatory agencies and analysts alike warn that residents in multiple U.S. states are at an elevated risk of dangerous winter\u00a0blackouts. States such as Texas and North […]<\/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":[3,4,7],"tags":[33490,339,15792,31926,1574,2424,4552,16350,827,834],"class_list":["post-64475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-autumn-spredemann","tag-fuel","tag-fuel-shortages","tag-fuel-supplies","tag-power-grid","tag-power-grid-loss","tag-power-outage","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64475","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=64475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64476,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64475\/revisions\/64476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}