{"id":68196,"date":"2024-05-18T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T16:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68196"},"modified":"2024-05-18T11:14:37","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T16:14:37","slug":"us-power-grid-may-become-unreliable-this-summer-watchdog-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68196","title":{"rendered":"US Power Grid May Become Unreliable This Summer, Watchdog Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Power Grid May Become Unreliable This Summer, Watchdog Warns<\/a><\/h3>\n
A third of the country is facing an \u2018elevated risk of blackouts\u2019 soon, an industry expert said.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Parts of America could face difficulties in meeting electricity demand during the summer season, with renewable energy sources like wind and solar power posing a potential risk to reliable power supply, according to a report by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC).<\/p>\n

The NERC report<\/a> classifies several parts of the country as facing an \u201celevated\u201d risk of summer electricity reliability for the upcoming June-September period.<\/div>\n

Elevated risk means there is \u201cpotential for insufficient operating reserves\u201d when the region faces above-normal demand conditions. Such regions include parts of Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Illinois, and Iowa. The determination of elevated risk is based on various factors, including potential low wind or solar energy conditions that could lead to a lower electricity supply.<\/p>\n

The North American power bulk power system (BPS) is made up of six regional entities\u2014Midwest Reliability Organization (MRO), Northeast Power Coordinating Council (NPCC), ReliabilityFirst (RF), SERC Reliability Corporation (SERC), Texas Reliability Entity (Texas RE), Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC)\u2014with elevated risk upcoming in certain regions.<\/p>\n

Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), which manages the electricity capacity market, operates<\/a> in 15 U.S. states, including Texas, Illinois, Montana, Arkansas, and Kentucky. MISO is expected to have \u201csufficient resources\u201d to meet normal summer peak demand, the NERC report said.<\/div>\n

However, if MISO were to face above-normal peak demand conditions at a time when wind and solar output is lower than expected, it could be \u201cchallenging\u201d for the transmission organization to meet demand.<\/p>\n

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US Power Grid May Become Unreliable This Summer, Watchdog Warns A third of the country is facing an \u2018elevated risk of blackouts\u2019 soon, an industry expert said. Parts of America could face difficulties in meeting electricity demand during the summer season, with renewable energy sources like wind and solar power posing a potential risk to […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[33636,1574,34595,16350,827,834],"class_list":["post-68196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-naveen-athrappully","tag-power-grid","tag-power-intermittency","tag-the-epoch-times","tag-united-states","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68196","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=68196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68197,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68196\/revisions\/68197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}