Policymakers who have embraced so-called renewable energy in the name of climate change ought to take a hard look at the projections included in the most recent report from PJM Interconnection, which operates the electric transmission system in the Northeast, Western, and mid-Atlantic regions.
What PJM describes as emerging "Imbalances" are in fact pending shortages and blackouts that will result from the inability of politically fashionable but unreliable energy sources to match the nation's rising demands.
Dan Kish, a senior fellow with the Institute for Energy Research, a Washington-based nonprofit that supports free market policies, views the PJM report as a "Cry for help" and as a warning to political figures who are undercutting American energy.
Because FERC has latitude to say yeah or nay to new natural gas pipelines, the relationship between the commissioners and outside groups opposed to the pipelines should concern Americans who depend on affordable, reliable energy.
Kish points to alarming figures that suggest green activists from inside and outside the Biden White House are already having a deleterious impact on America's energy posture.
Electricity prices were up 14 percent nationwide last year at a time when the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that the least amount of U.S. interstate natural gas pipeline capacity on record was added.
"Drive up prices so people use less energy. There's also the added problem we have with a cottage industry of shareholder lawsuits poised to go after businesses that propose new industrial production sites. What the politicians have planned is going to lead to shortages of electricity. If you don't have natural gas pipelines, you won't be able to feed these plants. We are talking about an all-out assault on American energy and the bill is coming due soon." PJM was first established in 1927 "As a power pool of three utilities" for customers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but when two Maryland utilities were added in 1956, it evolved into the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection.
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