Some great decision-making by our betters - electricity

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The fools keep telling us to use more and more but they have no positive plan to upgrade the infrastructure.
Leads us to obvious outcomes like this - from the Institute for Energy Research:

Trend toward Forced Electrification Resulted in Rolling Blackouts during Arctic Blast
Do you remember the days when the United States had reliable power? When the U.S. power grid had enough excess capacity to deal with weather issues and plant outages? When electric rates were reasonable? Those days may be over due to forced electrification of heating systems and automobile sales as President Biden, Governor Newsom, and other politicians force mandates and goals at the U.S. electric grid to make it carbon-free. The recent holiday weather is an example of rolling blackouts and outages that occurred in California and the U.S. south from such policies. States hit hardest by blackouts in last week’s winter storm have significantly increased reliance on heating homes with electricity over the last decade, putting more strain on the power grid when temperatures drop. The number of households using electric heat in Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina increased by about 20 percent from 2009 to 2020, while the generating capacity of power plants in the region remained relativity flat and increasingly dependent on renewable energy.

Much more at the site - a good timeline of this winters events and an analysis of where we are heading if we continue on this trajectory.  The people pushing the narratives and making the plans are not elected.  There is no accountability for their actions and if they f*ck up royally, they will be "demoted" to another agency - frequently with a pay raise for their troubles.

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