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If your idea of progress means never having power when you need it most, and never being able to afford it when you do get it, then the grand wind and solar transition is for you.

Guaranteed to deliver a power pricing and supply calamity, every time, heavily subsidised wind and solar are said to be the “future”.

Vanessa Mendoza and Troy Senik take a look at what that wind and sun ‘powered’ future means for you.

When the Lights Go Out: The Destabilization of America’s Electricity Supply
Kite and Key Media
Vanessa Mendoza and Troy Senik
14 June 2023

In the year 2000, there were fewer than two dozen major power disruptions in the United States. In 2020, there were 180. How did our electricity get so much less reliable?

A number of factors are at work in the growing instability of the grid. For one thing, much of…