By Paul Homewood
From ZeroHedge:
Energy Secretary Chris Wright warns that the U.S. power grid is nearing its capacity limit, as his department urgently works to avert a potential crisis.
This week, the Energy Department issued an emergency order to counter a Southeast heatwave threatening grid stability and blackouts, authorizing full operation of specific electric generating units.
"In my department, we’ve issued four emergency orders just in the last few weeks to stop the closure of reliable plants, so we can keep the lights on and stop pushing up electricity prices,” Wright said in an interview Thursday with Fox News.
"We were on a course that was a train wreck,” the Trump official warned. "We’re doing everything possible now to sweep out the nonsense.”
Wright blamed Biden-era regulations, specifically emission regulation, for that power grid being on the brink of failure.
"We had to issue an emergency order a few days ago just to let utilities in the Southeast run their plants at full capacity so they could keep the lights on. Under the Biden laws, that’s illegal," Wright said. "Emissions rules would have prevented them from producing all the electricity they could, and they would have had rolling brownouts. That’s just total nonsense.”
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