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by Warner Todd Huston at lidblog.com
Organizations and businesses that manage the nation’s electrical grids are warning that Joe Biden’s new EPA rules will cause widespread blackouts because of the falsified claims over the usefulness of renewable energy that form the basis for the new regulations.
The groups that manage the electricity for 156 million Americans across 30 states say that the new EPA mandates are a disaster waiting to happen in an amicus brief — also known as a friend of the court brief — filed in support of a major lawsuit against the EPA over the new rules.
Per Just the News:
The EPA released the rules in April. They require coal-fired power plants that will be operating past 2039 to begin implementing carbon-capture technologies in just eight years. New gas-fired power plants will also need to add the technologies, with those operating 40% of their annual capacity or more to add carbon capture starting in 2032.
Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling, co-founder and researchers with Always On Energy Research, performed an analysis on behalf of the North Dakota Transmission Authority on the impacts the rules would have on the Midcontinent Independent Systems Operator (MISO), an RTO that covers a swath of the center of the U.S.
The researchers say they found a number of problems. The EPA grossly overestimated the ability of intermittent wind and solar to deliver reliable electricity during peak demand periods, according to the analysis, and it also found the agency didn’t perform any reliability analysis on the rules. The result would be blackouts lasting days in some cases.
The electric grid officials say that Biden’s wild-eyed EPA rules are “absolutely devastating for the grid” because of the lies Biden is pushing about how prepared renewable energy producers are to add their efforts to America’s power production.