The Grid That Democrats Built

Democrats Spent Decades Wrecking the Power Grid and Now 67 Million Americans Are About to Pay for It

PJM Interconnection just dropped a report called "Powering Reliability Through Market Design." The title sounds like a policy seminar. The contents read like a warning flare.

The grid is running short on power, and PJM is proposing what it calls "differential reliability" – a plan to ration electricity by cutting off data centers and large new businesses first while residential customers keep the lights on.

The math behind the crisis is damning. Construction timelines for new power plants have doubled. A natural gas turbine now takes at least four years from approval to operation, and environmental reviews routinely drag on longer than that.

The moment PJM reopened its interconnection queue after a years-long backlog, over 800 applications flooded in totaling 220 gigawatts of potential capacity.

The supply exists. Democrats spent decades making sure it couldn't be built.

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PJM Interconnection is a Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity for 67 million people across 13 states and the District of Columbia. As the largest power grid in North America, it operates competitive electricity markets, ensures reliability, and manages over 88,000 miles of transmission lines.

Iran given a 2 day ultimatum

Trump Threatens to ‘Obliterate’ Iranian Power Plants if Strait of Hormuz Is Not Reopened Within 48 Hours

President Trump issued a 48-hour ultimatum to Iran on Saturday, warning that the United States would strike Iranian power plants if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened.

The threat marked a major escalation as tensions rose around the vital waterway that carries roughly one-fifth of the world’s crude oil.

President Trump delivered the warning in a Truth Social post on Saturday.

He wrote, “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!”

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Chinese rogue communication devices found in Solar Panels

Undocumented Chinese devices found in solar panels

Capable of damaging our Power Grids

Officials are reportedly reassessing the risk posed by Chinese-made devices found in solar panels that are capable of damaging the energy infrastructure, destabilizing the power grid and triggering widespread blackouts.

Over the past nine months, “rogue communication devices” not listed in product documents were found in solar power inverters and batteries from several Chinese suppliers, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with Reuters.

The undocumented devices were found after U.S. experts disassembled the renewable energy equipment to check for security issues, prompting officials to review the potential dangers of the Chinese-made devices, according to the publication.

“We know that China believes there is value in placing at least some elements of our core infrastructure at risk of destruction or disruption,” Mike Rogers, a former director of the U.S. National Security Agency, told Reuters. “I think that the Chinese are, in part, hoping that the widespread use of inverters limits the options that the West has to deal with the security issue.”

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Terrorist threatened to carry out hate-fueled mass violence in our country

Jordanian man accused of attacking Fla. power facility over support for Israel

A Jordanian citizen residing in Orlando, Florida, has been charged for allegedly destroying solar panels at an energy facility and making threats against businesses in the state because he believed they supported Israel.

Hashem Younis Hashem Hnaihen has been charged with four counts of threatening to use explosives and one count of destruction of an energy facility, and is being held behind bars pending a resolution in the case.

According to court records, Hnaihen began smashing the windows of several businesses in the Orlando area and leaving "warning letters" threatening to "destroy or explode everything here in whole America. Especially the companies and factories that support the racist state of Israel."

CNN has reached out to a defense lawyer for Hnaihen.

Hnaihen also attempted to purchase a firearm and lied about his lack of US citizenship, prosecutors say. During a background check, however, prosecutors say the issue was discovered and Hnaihen was not able to purchase the weapon.

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I would like to know if he is one of the terrorists who has crossed our border under the watch of our border czar.

EPA Toughest Rules Ever

Biden EPA Announces Toughest-Ever Rules for Power Plant Emissions

After weeks of buildup, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled its strictest-ever rules for power produced using natural gas, coal, and oil that could spur the use of carbon capture technologies.

The standards released on May 11 would impact new and old power infrastructure, including new natural gas turbines and the country’s existing coal fleet. Though the United States still has hundreds of coal plants, the number of such installations has fallen sharply during the past decade.

Ahead of the EPA’s May 11 announcement, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) threw down the gauntlet on the looming proposals.

“I fear that this Administration’s commitment to their extreme ideology overshadows their responsibility to ensure long-lasting energy and economic security and I will oppose all EPA nominees until they halt their government overreach,” the lawmaker, who represents a conservative, fossil-fuel producing state, said in a May 10 statement.

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Did Joe Lie to the Unions to get their Vote?

Top Union Leader Realizes Joe’s Real Agenda

A top union leader has slammed Joe Biden over his executive order cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline, which cost approximately 11,000 construction jobs.

Actually, everyone should be slamming Joe for just about everything.

Nearly 4 million in Texas are without power due to a failed power grid because of frozen wind turbines.

According to reporting by Axios, “Organized labor is crucial to the Biden coalition. But there are significant tensions among environmentalists, the president’s team addressing climate change and some parts of the labor movement. The Laborers’ International Union of North America said the Keystone decision will cost 1,000 existing union jobs and 10,000 projected construction jobs.”

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Securing the U.S. Bulk-Power System suspended by Biden

Biden Rescinds Trump Order Keeping China Out of American Power Grid

“Executive Order 13920 of May 1, 2020 (Securing the United States Bulk-Power System), is hereby suspended for 90 days. The Secretary of Energy and the Director of OMB shall jointly consider whether to recommend that a replacement order be issued,” Biden’s order stated.

The Trump-era order sought to ban, replace, and set new criteria on bulk-power system (BPS) electric equipment coming from a foreign country or national that poses a national security threat.

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Congress needs to get serious - now!

[InfoWars] North Korea had test fired a total of 22 missiles so far this year, but this latest one showed that nobody on the globe is out of their reach. In fact, General Mattis is now admitting that “North Korea can basically threaten everywhere in the world,” and that includes the entire continental United States. In addition to hitting individual cities with nukes, there is also the possibility that someday North Korea could try to take down the entire country with an EMP attack. If the North Koreans detonated a single nuclear warhead several hundred miles above the center of the country, it would destroy the power grid and fry electronics from coast to coast.

William Graham, chairman of the former EMP commission and its former chief of staff, Peter Vincent Pry, warned the hearing that such an attack could “shut down the US electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans.”

And can you believe that On Sept. 30, the Congressional Commission to Assess the Threat of Electromagnetic Pulse to the United States of America shut its doors after a failure to secure funding from Congress?

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U.S. back to the stone age?

Experts recommend preemptive nuclear strike against N. Korea, warn Congress that the very real threat of an EMP attack would kill 90% of Americans

[Powdered Wig] Imagine no electricity, no heat or AC, no running water, no transportation. How long could your family survive?

Two electromagnetic pulse (EMP) experts warned Congress on Thursday that North Korea is capable of executing an EMP attack over the United States which would send the U.S. back to the stone age, reports Daily Wire, and would lead to the deaths of 90% of all Americans within one year.

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Our Electric Power Plant - Billowing Steam

I looked out my window and saw what I assumed to be smoke billowing from the power plant. I drove over there and as soon as I exited my vehicle, the "smoke" ended. Wondering what was going on, I e-mailed the assistant utility director, Walt Gill.

This is his answer:

Hey Lynn It was steam…We are bringing the steam unit online.

Thanks.

Walt Gill
Assistant Director | Electric Department

City of Lake Worth
1900 2nd Ave N
Lake Worth, FL 33461
V: 561-586-1706
wgill@lakeworth.org

Kim Jong un playing Nuclear chicken

While Americans' eyes are focused on Kim Jong Un playing nuclear chicken [and giving us the "bird"] with his missile launches and nuclear tests, they would be wise to look up and realize two of the North Korean dictator's satellites positioned over the U.S. are capable of taking out our power grid.

He's been prepping for a showdown, and this energy expert says you had better start prepping for it, too

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Now you can track your power outage in Lake Worth

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The City has announced the launch of a new web-based application that will allow customers to track any lateral or higher power outages that may take place in the Lake Worth electric service area.*  The beauty of the application – the Lake Worth Power Outage Tracker - is that consumers may access information via their phone, laptop or tablet.

Bringing this new application to Lake Worth was tasked to Walt Gill, Assistant Director of Electric Utilities who the city just put on administrative leave.  They aren't telling us why. Great going city for the Lake Worth Power Outage Tracker but what about Walt Gill?

Lake Worth has been able to build this application within the utilities department’s operational budget.  Gill has been working KBS Technologies to develop the application based Lake Worth’s individual needs, says the city.

Click here... for the next time you have an outage.  Of course you won't have any power but perhaps someone can explain that one.  With most of us using wireless network connections to connect our devices to the Internet, our connection is still reliant on power because the modem and router that enables our home network requires electricity.  But, I'm not tech savvy.

Survivng an EMP Attack

Smart Meters, Smart Grid Solutions and the $23 million dollar price tag

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Slick Salesman

First introduced to us on February 10, 2015, Hector Samario told us that he wants a lot of money from the City of Lake Worth. Everyone heads to Lake Worth when they want to save us from ourselves.  Is there some list being passed around directing people to come here?

The city manager has been working with Siemens behind the scenes like they are the 2nd coming of Christ, no kidding, and now has them on tonight's agenda under New Business J.  City Manager Bornstein has a dream to take Lake Worth into the 21st Century.

The total cost of the project to the City is projected to be $32.5M and the city has to get the approval and closing of a Bank of America equipment lease loan to pay for the equipment and installation costs of $23M. Once funded, the monies will be deposited into an escrow account from which the City will make draws to pay Siemens and make the direct equipment purchases. It seems that the city will be spending nearly $3 million on over 4,000 LED streetlights, $5.5 million on solar panels at our landfill, close to a million on new a/c units, etc. and hold on to your chair, they will be spending right under $13 million for advanced metering infrastructure that includes new smart meters, meters they say aren't really smart meters (that was for the Mayor's benefit) but they are. We just replaced meters.

Siemens wants us to know that the contract does not constitute a debt, liability or obligation?? With Siemens' implementations, such as vending machine sensors at 3 buildings, no kidding, they say we will save money. If the agreed upon energy goals are not met, Siemens pays the shortfall that now will be a 15 year contract. We will have an annual cash flow of $210,666 a year for 15 years on a debt that isn't a debt of $23 million depending on the street light contingency. Wow!

*The City must reasonably permit SIEMENS to control and/or operate all building controls, systems, apparatus, equipment and machinery necessary to perform the Work, subject to CITY operational requirements. In other words, Bornstein wants to turn over the whole enchilada.

This city administration, once again, is going around the people. This time it is $23 million dollars. Have you ever heard of anything quite like it? The city commission can vote you, the taxpayer, into 15 years of commitment by simply voting yea and something that the city manager wants them to do. If they can't get it from a referendum, they will get some of it by at least a 3/2 vote  perhaps more. Think about all  that power they have over your money on improvements that will be outdated in five years and need constant care and maintenance.  We have a big problem just thinking about the word "maintenance."

We have attorneys who really should be advising the city commission on things that could go wrong but the city attorney who is appointed by the commission does what the city manager wants him to do. Do we really need all these "improvements" and spending millions? If anyone on the dais has the slightest doubt tonight, please vote it down. If not, should they all be recalled?

Quote of the Day - Peter Pry

“Thanks to RF Weapons, we have arrived at a place where the technological pillars of civilization for a major metropolitan area could be toppled by a single individual.”

~ Peter Pry

 Executive Director of the congressional advisory Task Force on National and Homeland Security

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Our Electric Power Grid

The lack of a will among politicians in Washington to protect America’s future, and potentially the lives of millions of Americans, is the reason why there is no plan to secure America’s national grid system from an electromagnetic pulse attack, according to testimony delivered to Congress today.

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