The Environmental Protection Agency's new Clean Power Plan 2.0 was recently finalized, and it's being met with a lot of criticism over its emphasis on net-zero emissions at the expense of grid reliability.
Some experts believe the EPA is engineering the power grid to fail with the new rule.
The EPA says the move is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by the year 2032, but those in the energy industry say that it is a highly unrealistic mandate.
In this case, the result would be significant grid instability as operators are strong-armed into adopting unreliable, expensive and intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind.
Even the Department of Energy admits that wind is dependable for only around a third of the year and solar energy is reliable for just under a quarter of the time.
The generation of wind energy is on the decline.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers released a joint statement with Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Buddy Carter denouncing the new rules, cautioning: "At a time when more than half the nation is at elevated risk of forced blackouts, the administration's unrelenting rush-to-green agenda is shutting down the types of generation needed to keep the lights on and raising costs across the board."
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-05-27-epa-engineering-power-grid-failure-clean-power-plan.html
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