Have The Intermittent Energy Blackouts Begun? Today there have been widespread electricity blackouts across Europe, beginning in Spain and Portugal in the early afternoon (local time), and then spreading to other countries including France, Andorra, Belgium and the Netherlands. Is this related to the increasing penetration of intermittent generation from wind and solar facilities?…
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Preparing for Power-Grid Challenges In The Summer of 2025
Preparing for Power-Grid Challenges In The Summer of 2025 Bracing for Blackouts As the summer of 2025 approaches, the stability of the U.S. power grid remains a pressing concern. With extreme weather forecasts, an aging infrastructure, increased cyberattack threats, and politically motivated sabotage, the risk of blackouts and brownouts is at an all-time high….
The Railroad Mafia & Cui Bono?
In a recent post by Bayou Renaissance Man titled the “Tanker Mafia”? Yes, we have our own version in the USA… it is stated: ‘They actively fight any proposal to build pipelines to convey that oil more cheaply and/or efficiently, to the extent of funding lobbyists to block legislation, and paying for activists (e.g….
Emergency Winter Heating
Dyna-Glo WK24BK 23,800 BTU Indoor Kerosene Convection Heater, Black Having an emergency heat source that is not reliant on electricity is MANDATORY going forward. I bought three of these for the house as an emergency heating source and as a way to re-enforce my other means of heating. *Note: Currently Kerosene is outrageously expensive….
NERC sounds alarm over winter gas supplies
NERC sounds alarm over winter gas supplies, potential grid impacts Almost two years after Winter Storm Elliott forced the largest recorded manual load shed in the history of the Eastern interconnection, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. said Friday it “remains concerned about maintaining sufficient natural gas supplies to address extreme winter conditions.” NERC’s…
Texas News: Texas Oil Companies Under Attack from Migrant Gangs
Via: American Partisan
Texas Energy News: Fracking Backfires
Ranchers reported abandoned oil wells spewing wastewater. A new study blames fracking Fracking wastewater, injected underground for permanent disposal, traveled 12 miles through geological faults before bursting to the surface through a previously plugged West Texas oil well in 2022, according to a new study from Southern Methodist University. It’s the first study to…
Texas News: 103 Earthquakes in One Week in Scurry, County Texas
103 earthquakes in one week: What’s going on in west Texas? So many earthquakes have struck the west Texas county of Scurry in the past week – more than 100 at last count – local officials have declared a state of emergency. Scurry County Judge Dan Hicks wrote in his Friday declaration of disaster that since…
Texas News: Gov. Abbott seeks to Double Texas Energy Fund
Gov. Abbott seeks to double Texas Energy Fund to build more natural gas plants as power demand grows ‘ERCOT estimates Texas will need 150,000 megawatts to power the grid by 2030. Right now, the state has about 85,000 megawatts of power available.’ Allow me to translate the message that is in between the lines…
Another Attack on Power Grid Infrastructure in NC
Gunfire attack on Duke Energy equipment causes Durham County fire, power outage near Raleigh NC has been an active state for both power grid sabotage and Chechen’s getting shot at SF Officer’s homes on May 3rd (Same day as the attack on Fort Knox). See in that what you will, but there are no…