by Samantha Foster | 24News
Just days after passing a law to ban all non-electric cars and trucks by 2035, California has made another move that shows the catastrophic effect of their “green” hysteria.
The operator of the state’s entire power grid has just warned citizens of an energy shortage, and begged owners of electric vehicles NOT to charge them while it is ongoing.
The details:
California will suffer an energy shortage and “Flex Alerts” through Labor Day due to high temperatures, and residents will be asked to conserve electricity during afternoons and evenings, which means refraining from charging electric vehicles, among other uses.
The Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday (emphasis added):
Hoping to avoid blackouts, the California Independent System Operator, which manages the state’s power grid, warned Tuesday that it probably will issue a series of Flex Alerts over the next several days. Flex Alerts are voluntary calls for conservation during the afternoon and evening hours, when energy use tends to soar. Residents will be asked to turn up their thermostats to 78 degrees or higher, avoid using dishwashers or other large appliances, and hold off on charging their electric vehicles, all during the 4-9 p.m. time frame.
Already, the grid manager has issues a “restricted maintenance operations” notice starting Wednesday — a directive telling power generators and transmission line operators to delay routine maintenance that would take generating or transmission equipment offline.
The San Francisco Chronicle explained further:
The grid is expected to be under the most strain on Monday, with a projected peak load of 48,225 megawatts, [Anne Gonzales of the the California Independent System Operator] said. Peak loads on Sunday, when temperatures in parts of the Bay Area are most likely to reach triple digits, are also expected to reach more than 48,000 megawatts, according to Gonzales.
Because the weekend’s heat wave will align with high temperatures throughout the West, California’s ability to import power from neighboring states may be limited, according to the grid operator.
You read that right. You must use electric….but please stop using it. Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.
The warnings come just days after the state finalized regulations to ban gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035, as part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s effort to shift the entire passenger fleet to electric vehicles, ostensibly to help fight climate change. Already, Newsom and state legislators are scrambling
Two years ago, Newsom urged Californians to “sober up” about the limitations of solar and wind power, during another late summer energy shortage that resulted in rolling blackouts across much of the state. The state has not expanded its energy sources since then, though it has improved plans for energy shortages and expanded battery capacity.
But one environmental critic has exposed the sheer impossibility of meeting California’s electric car goals, in 10 years (as they claim), or ever:
Of California’s 30,398,249 motor vehicles, just 1.9% (563,070) are electric.
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) August 31, 2022
Using the state’s own estimates, California will need 17 GW of additional electricity to power all those electric cars
Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which the state has tried to shut down, is 2.3 GW pic.twitter.com/g2Wap7tbom
Dr. Michael Shellenberger points out that California would require 20 new nuclear power plants…while it now has ONE that it is trying to shut down!
And it cannot be done with “wind and solar” only, as Gavin Newsom insists:
To produce the same amount of electricity from solar and wind as from nuclear would require 379x and 421x more land, respectively.
— Michael Shellenberger (@ShellenbergerMD) August 31, 2022
That’s simply not going to happen because the projects would kill so many threatened birds and desert tortoises that they’d risk extinction. pic.twitter.com/sbZjN1BVVH
The inmates are running the asylum in California.
How are people going to visit California when ban all other cars? what about when the batteries are ruined and ruin the land fill? Seeping into it.
It’s about taking people off the road and mass transit, always was