The Wall Street Journal Revealed Newsom & California’s High Cost Energy and Reliability Quit – Is It Any Better With That?

Essay by Larry Hamlin

The Wall Street Journal in its main editorial on September 8, 2022 shows California’s longstanding high energy costs and the failure of poor energy reliability created by its government’s leadership under Governor Newsom (a failure not attributable to climate change). post-generated) as described in the article title below.

The article addresses the often inflated and inaccurate reasons for the state’s climate change for the lack of reliable electricity and the failures of high energy costs, noting:

“Democrats blame climate change for the state’s week-long warnings to conserve electricity, but California’s climate hasn’t suddenly changed. Triple-digit temperatures are not unprecedented even in early September, despite Governor Gavin Newsom’s statement. What has changed dramatically in recent years is California’s electric generation.”

The article summarizes the energy and reliability challenges facing the state, noting:

“California’s summer generating capacity grew by about 10,700 megawatts (MW) between 2010 and 2020 — potentially enough to power eight to 10 million homes. The problem is that gas-fired capacity during this time fell by 4,390 MW and nuclear by 2,150 MW. Solar and wind have grown by 17,000 MW, but those sources cannot be ordered to run when people need them.”

“As a result, the state has to rely on imports from other states in the evening, especially during heatwaves. But these imports are becoming less and less reliable as California’s neighbors are also losing base load generators to their own renewable energy supplies. Arizona lost about half of its coal production capacity in the summer between 2015 and 2020.”

The impact that California’s energy breakdown had on the overall price and availability of energy markets in the Western United States as a result of its politically oriented climate alarm plans was documented as:

“Meanwhile, power shortages are causing prices in the Golden State to skyrocket like in Europe. Electricity prices in California’s wholesale market rose Tuesday night to about $1,700 per MWh from the normal $100 and $67 a year ago. All of this explains why the price of residential electricity in California has increased by 50% in the past two years – three times the increase nationally.”

The conclusion of the article causes many difficulties, it should be noted:

“The grid problems that Californians are suffering from will only grow and spread as green energy subsidies and mandates displace their harmful drivers of the U.S. economy. States in the coming years. The culprits are left-wing climate policies, not climate change.”

California began its climate warning campaign in 2006 with the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) which triggered commitments to reduce CO2 emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020. It further escalated the commitments. This reduction in state amendments will be made in the coming decades to mandatory “net zero” by 2045. These plans are extremely expensive, unreliable, and unsuitable for the real world.

In year 2006, total global CO2 emissions were about 29 billion tons of CO2. By 2021, total global CO2 emissions have increased to about 34 billion tons and by 5 billion tons. During this period, the US, UK and EU spent trillions of dollars mandating unreliable renewable energy programs at higher costs while shutting down natural gas plants, Distributed, reliable and lower-cost coal and nuclear power to reduce CO2 emissions by 2.3 billion tons while the world of developing countries has increased CO2 emissions by more than 7 billion tons during this period by increasing the use of all forms of fossil fuels.

The world’s developing countries now account for almost 70% of total global CO2 emissions with these countries committed to continued expansion and reliable use of low-cost fossil fuels. Some of these countries including Russia and China currently control the energy markets that the rest of the world has to access under high-cost and unreliable rationing schemes to try. meet their energy needs because of their undeniably unreliable performance not enough renewable energy “as energy available” schemes these countries have created.

The Wall Street Journal article about a real-world reliability and energy failure in California was a major US event involving a major media publication presenting an honest review and exactly on the failure of the Democrat climate alarmist to push for mandatory use of renewable energy in the US