Clear cause and effect of rolling back energy independence: Battered, vilified, coal / natural gas power plants, damaged in extreme winter storm, fail to carry the grid, resulting in blackouts for the US South, just before holidays

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Quoting Bloomberg

Duke Energy Corp. and the Tennessee Valley Authority cut power to homes and businesses during the holiday season as an extreme winter storm pummeled the region. Duke instituted rotating outages Dec. 24 that interrupted service to about 500,000 customers, while TVA for the first time in its history had rotating blackouts Dec. 23 and Dec. 24.

The disruption was the latest instance of a major failure to generate electricity in the US following a storm or natural disaster, a trend that’s brought attention to the state of the nation’s disassembly of its infrastructure and energy independence, through attacks on fossil fuels and preemptive moves by the Biden administration to forced alternatives that are just wishful thinking at this point.

Further quoting Bloomberg

High winds damaged several of the protective structures at the Cumberland Fossil Plant, the biggest TVA coal plant, as well as multiple gas-fired combustion turbines used during peak power periods, a TVA representative said in an email.

And quoting Bloomberg once again

The weather caused a reduction in Duke’s generation and extra electricity couldn’t be brought in from other power producers or from out of state because those utilities were also facing shortages, a Duke representative said in an email Thursday. And some of Duke’s generation was also offline due to planned or maintenance outages unrelated to the storm.

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Get woke go broke applies in so many ways and in so many places.