Grid Warning Proves the Forced Green Energy Push Is Putting Americans at Risk
The country’s largest grid operator just issued a stark warning: extreme heat this summer could push the electric grid into dangerous territory potentially triggering power shortages for the first time.
According to PJM Interconnection, the organization that manages the electricity grid for a large part of the eastern United States, covering 13 states and Washington, D.C., projects record-breaking demand could overwhelm available power supply. The forced transition to so-called “renewable” energy and the political war on baseload power provided by organic energy sources like coal and natural gas is to blame for this potential catastrophe. Bloomberg reported:
“PJM continues to voice concerns about the supply and demand imbalance driven by generator retirements and the slow build of new resources in the face of accelerating demand growth,” the grid operator stated.
Translation: We’ve closed too many reliable power plants, and the solar panels and wind turbines being built to replace them can’t keep up.
This isn’t a fluke. It’s the result of years of policymakers forcing the grid to go “green” before it’s ready. PJM has warned for years that its coal plants are retiring faster than new power can be added, and now it’s coming to a head just as demand spikes from AI, as Power The Future has written, and temperatures rise.
The grid was never meant to operate on weather-dependent power alone. It needs dispatchable, always-available generation, something renewables can’t provide at scale. Instead of letting the energy transition happen organically with market demand and technological readiness, the government picked winners and losers, and now Americans are left paying the price: less reliability, higher costs, and looming blackouts.
You can’t electrify everything, shut down half the grid, and expect the lights to stay on. The warning is clear, and it’s time for leaders to wake up.
May 12, 2025