America’s electricity supply is facing a daunting future.
A recent report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation places most of the country at high or elevated risk of electricity capacity shortfalls over the next decade.
That means more blackouts and brownouts. But thankfully, individual states are springing into action to protect their electricity grids.
The cause of the emerging grid problems is quite simple.
Reliable energy sources are being retired and replaced with less reliable, intermittent sources. Exacerbating the problem could be disruptions to natural gas supplies, which would fuel much of America’s remaining reliable electricity-producing plants.
The grid will be thrown out of balance between what American families and businesses demand and what the grid can supply. When that happens, blackouts and brownouts will occur.
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