Just weeks after the Iberian Peninsula went dark thanks to an overreliance on unreliable energy, New Orleans had 100,000 customers left in the dark. The power outage came with a three-minute warning as providers were forced to kill the juice to avoid imminent widespread and longer blackouts.
Grid instability issues threatened to produce a much more significant outage that would have lasted a good deal longer. A problem the Trump Administration’s entire energy policy is designed to address.
Two days before the blackouts, Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ordered MISO to ensure that the J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Michigan, continues to operate in order to prevent potential capacity shortages that could cause power outages.
“This administration will not sit back and allow dangerous energy subtraction policies threaten the resiliency of our grid and raise electricity prices on American families,” Wright said Friday. “With President Trump’s leadership, the Energy Department is hard at work securing the American people access to affordable, reliable, and secure energy that powers their lives regardless of whether the wind is blowing, or the sun is shining.”
The Michigan plant was days away from retirement when the Trump administration ordered it to remain online. Midwest power companies have been mothballing coal and nuclear plants and relying more on wind and solar power.
“MISO’s capacity resource turnover continues to occur with coal unit contributions being primarily replaced by solar, wind, and battery facilities. Furthermore, generation installation delays result in uncertainty throughout the assessment timeframe,” the December 2024 NERC grid reliability assessment reads. “As a result of these factors, MISO is facing capacity shortfalls beginning in 2025.”
MISO is the Midcontinent Independent System Operator. Their version of ISO New England for those of us trapped up here in New Hampshire, surrounded by idiot states running the same doomed energy policies. These are the same “policy experts” trying to electrify everything on a grid already facing supply issues, especially during the six months of the year when it is as cold as a witch’s you know what.
To quote Roin Williams, Assholes do Vex Me!
Even if global warming were a real thing, I’d rather bake than freeze. Thank you very much; it’s not that we’re in danger of that. If you live a little bit north of where I live, tapping Maple on Memorial Day is a real possibility, not that anyone would have expected that given all the CO2 in the atmosphere and how hot it’s supposed to be; Sugar house beach front property on the new Atlantic shoreline ‘cuz of all that sea level rise we arent’ getting either.
Don’t get me wrong. They keep rebooting the imminent spike fearmongering, but that’s why MISO has power problems in May, with the hottest months yet to come.
Pro Tip: You want to save the planet, by which I mean your lifestyle, stop voting for morons peddling green energy lies. End their political views by electing people who care more about you than some globalist scheme to undermine America.
