Electric Grid Dependance

[TJC44]

As you know, I am on the east coast. The new England grid is monitored by ISO New England, Which monitors usage and purchases of elctricity with surrounding grids. All of you have similiar organizations, I suggest you keep a closer eye on them in the coming months. My electricity provider, Central Maine Power was just approved a rate increase of almost 50%. Think about that, folks. Along with the price of gas, heating fuel, and groceries, the electric bill is also going up. Where I am is a user, not a supplier. In other words, the state uses more than it generates, which means it has to buy electricity. Despite it being a rural area, I have seen more and more heat pumps being installed, which use electric rather than oil heat. I have also seen alot of solar farms being built, which, honestly, do not belong in a northern state. Hello, Snow?!?

This does not bode well for the coming winter months. I hope in the best case it will send the warm blooded imports out and my state will return to it's conservative base. At worst, I see the low income & elderly being frozen out, in more ways than one.

To be continued....

[MountainGirl]

As you know, I am on the east coast. The new England grid is monitored by ISO New England, Which monitors usage and purchases of elctricity with surrounding grids. All of you have similiar organizations, I suggest you keep a closer eye on them in the coming months. My electricity provider, Central Maine Power was just approved a rate increase of almost 50%. Think about that, folks. Along with the price of gas, heating fuel, and groceries, the electric bill is also going up. Where I am is a user, not a supplier. In other words, the state uses more than it generates, which means it has to buy electricity. Despite it being a rural area, I have seen more and more heat pumps being installed, which use electric rather than oil heat. I have also seen alot of solar farms being built, which, honestly, do not belong in a northern state. Hello, Snow?!?

This does not bode well for the coming winter months. I hope in the best case it will send the warm blooded imports out and my state will return to it's conservative base. At worst, I see the low income & elderly being frozen out, in more ways than one.

To be continued....

Thanks for this.
Are you prepped and ready on a personal level to be without electricity completely, if need arises, short or long term?
Here at TenOaks - PO has all the electrical system backups ready to go if/when grid power goes out. MG has all the systems in place to function comfortably without needing power at all; if/when PO's backups are no longer feasible.

[Chiefster23]

Rate increases are bad, but maybe not what you think. Here we just had a 25% increase. But that was only on the kwhr part of the bill. NOT THE WHOLE BILL. We went from about 8 cents to 10 cents. So the whole bill did not increase 25%. Just the generation part.

[Box of frogs]

Rate increases are bad, but maybe not what you think. Here we just had a 25% increase. But that was only on the kwhr part of the bill. NOT THE WHOLE BILL. We went from about 8 cents to 10 cents. So the whole bill did not increase 25%. Just the generation part.

Same here.
Our local EMC went up 10% back in the summer.
BoF

[Slippy]

Hmmm...

Commies Against Coal started many years ago.

From Dick Nixon, Father of The EPA (EVIL PEOPLE AGAINST everything) to Jimmah Carter, Penis Farmer From GA thru EVERY STINKING ADMINISTRATION SINCE, the US has done something that defies ALL LOGIC....

Taken inexpensive, reliable, efficient methods of creating Energy/Power/Electricity and made it Expensive, Unreliable & Inefficient.

Definition of RETARDED.

[BucketBack]

We get our power from Croton and Hardy dams, both of which are being studied for removal, like the Newaygo dam in the 70's

Consumers doesn't want to pay from repairs

Hardy almost failed in spring '86 , then was repaired for the summer of rain in'86, was repaired again last winter, when the pond was at the lowest pool since '68

[T-Man 1066]

I am about 25 miles from the Byron IL nuke plant, close enough I can see the clouds from the 2 cooling towers from my house. Libtards wanted to permanently close that plant because "It's old" earlier this year, but I guess they blessed it for another 10 years.

Friggin dumbasses want to kill our power while adding to the demand with EV's and shit.

FUBAR!

And FJB!!!!

[TJC44]

Thanks for this.
Are you prepped and ready on a personal level to be without electricity completely, if need arises, short or long term?
Here at TenOaks - PO has all the electrical system backups ready to go if/when grid power goes out. MG has all the systems in place to function comfortably without needing power at all; if/when PO's backups are no longer feasible.

I finished stacking the second cord of wood today. It is now covered from the weather. I can order more from my source at anytime. I have a generator and batteries for short term backup. My very small solar setup is still in CT. Some systems still need tweaking, but I won't starve or freeze right away.

[Inor]

It looks like the folks in North Carolina are going to be finding out how well their electricity failure preps are going to work over the next couple days.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/north-car...county-sheriff

Apparently the transformers (human transformers not electrical) were doing some kind children's drag queen pervert thing tonight that had to be cancelled because of the lack of power. So the pervert transformers are blaming conservatives for the power outage. No right thinking conservative would shut down the power to stop the pervert transformers since we all know that we need electricity to give them electroshock therapy.

Personally, I think it was either Ivans, zipperheads or Muslims. Out of an abundance of caution, it seems like it would be a good idea to lock up all Russians, Chinks and Muslims until we get this figured out.