Commentary
California’s unreal vision of an ecotopian future finally may catch up with it this summer. That’s according to numbers in the new “2022 Summer Reliability Assessment” from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. It covers the four months of June-September 2022 for the six Regional Entities, with California in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council, which covers the Western states. The WECC is further broken down into four sub-entities, of which California and parts of Nevada and Baja California, Mexico belong to WECC-CA/MX. According to the SRA, “Localized short-term operational issues may occur due to wildfires, droughts, and/or supply chain issues. As cooling degree days continue to rise across the Western Interconnection, there is a risk that is higher than the historical average of prolonged heatwave events.”…