Why haven't summer's extreme heat waves caused any blackouts? Renewable energy is helping.
Florida is set to experience this week. covered much of the Southwest, expanding into the Midwest and Northeast in July. was broken.
And yes so far, the nation's electric grid has held firm. No , as happened in California in 2022. No brownouts as the warned could happen this summer. No rolling power outages as the (NERC) alerted might be an issue in the hottest summer months.
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Over the past 70 years, the United States' energy mix , shifting from coal, natural gas and hydroelectric power from dams in 1950 to greater reliance on natural gas and nuclear in 2000. But in the last 20 years, an increasing part of the mix has been made up of
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Having multiple different sources of energy has allowed the Texas grid to keep up with demand. It's not an either/or situation as some critics try to make it, Webber said.