From New Mexico to Washington, power grids are being strained by forces years in the making — some of them fueled by climate change, others by the fight against it.
Cal-ISO warns summer supply shortage risks remain in extreme heat conditions
http://www.chemnet.com May 13,2021 S&P Global
The California Independent System Operator warned May 12 that its power grid is still susceptible to stress during extreme heatwaves, but summer supply conditions are expected to be better than to a year ago when rotating outages were needed to prevent a grid collapse.
Improvements are mostly driven by new capacity added since summer 2020, while forecasted load remains nearly unchanged under normal conditions, according to Cal-ISO s 2021 Summer Loads and Resources Assessment. However, back-to-back low hydro years and increased extreme weather possibilities mean the ISO could still face challenges in meeting summer load. Such scenarios that affect a substantial portion of the Western Interconnection and cause simultaneously high loads across the West would reduce the availability of imports into the ISO balancing authority area, according to
Thursday, May 13. I’m Kimi Yoshino, and I’m writing from Los Angeles.
We’ve seen video after video of unprovoked attacks on Asian Americans and reports that show an alarming uptick in anti-Asian violence. One set of data, from the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino, found a 164% increase in Asian-related hate crimes in the first quarter of 2021 compared with the same period last year.
As Times reporter Anh Do wrote:
The attacks took place in schools, restaurants, stores, subways, sidewalks, fitness classes and Zoom meetings. Some involved allegations about the coronavirus, while other perpetrators used age-old racial slurs like “ching chong.”
Los Angeles Times – May 7
Southern California air quality officials have adopted controversial new rules on warehouse distribution centers in an effort to cut truck pollution, increase electrification, and reduce health risks in communities hit hardest by lung-damaging diesel exhaust. The South Coast Air Quality Management District’s governing board approved the rules Friday on a 9-4 vote after a lengthy public hearing featuring sharply contrasting viewpoints. Under the rules, facilities must choose from a menu of pollution reduction and mitigation options, such as using electric or natural-gas-fueled trucks, installing charging stations, erecting rooftop solar panels, putting air filters in neighboring schools and child-care centers, or paying for mitigation the latter payment being a measure that some critics maintain is an unconstitutional tax.
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