California Once Pioneered the Way in Renewable Energy. Now It’s Turning To Fossil Fuel To Beat a Heatwave
A sweeping energy proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Thursday puts the state in the business of buying power to ensure there’s enough to go around during heat waves that strain the grid. But some critics say the method of getting there is at odds with the state’s broader climate goals, because it paves the way for the state to tap aging gas-fired power plants and add backup generators fueled by diesel.
Democratic state Sen. Dave Min noted the tricky position the state is in by potentially needing to rely on fossil fuels and their planet-warming emissions to deal with the heat waves driven by climate change. State energy officials warned earlier this year that the state risks an energy shortfall equivalent to what it takes to power 1.3 million homes on the summer’s hottest days. Newsom and lawmakers are desperate to avoid a scenario like August 2020, when hundreds of thousands of people temporarily lost power because there wasn’t enough supply to go around.
Newsom said in a signing statement that he would direct state agencies to “ensure clean energy resources are prioritized over fossil fuels.” Environmental groups, meanwhile, said the state wouldn’t need to rely on fossil fuels as a backup if it had moved faster to build up renewable resources and expressed concern that the bill doesn’t put enough guardrails on the water department’s power. The department would not have to comply with California’s landmark environmental law to move forward with new projects.No Oil Producer Wants to Be the First to Give Up the Fuel.
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Waste To Energy..... Incinerate Plastic and garbage fuel unlimited, cheap, replace coal plants, close landfills cities clean and green.
Why aren’t we using more geothermal and nuclear along with renewables?! SMH sad
We need that good CO2 to feed the plants so we can feed the population so it's a good thing, climate change is all about creating scarcity of food and destroying the supply chain so people can starve, so they can present the solution which would be agenda 21 and satanic NWO
lol.. renewables in other states
Lmao, yet so sad.
So the renewable energy thing isn’t working?
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Good for them👍🏻
If CA just included solarenergy in their infrastructure updates, they wouldn't be in this mess. But no, that's time and $ they 'don't have.' Poor planning on their parts, they should have started doing that years ago. EndFossilFules ClimateActionNow
Reality sets in. We can’t live without it.
I love it when charging stations run off diesel.
Small nuclear power plants along with renewable at every home both mini wind turbines and solar can give full power independence. Bill gates is working on NP.
People are slowly getting wise to the false-promises of renewables, it’s just too bad that they have to go through this phase first.
The do what they have to do!
What a BS, everybody knows we all, including CA, are still not able to use only sustainable energy. At least CA is trying, instead sending men underground to dick for coal.
Ironic
Gets my dick on hard just to hear it.
It's almost as though this magical Green Energy isn't as perfect as the sales brochure indicated
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