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How the hell is this gonna work once everybody comes home from work and plugs in their electric cars to charge?
I’ve noticed the TVA isn’t building more power plants, at least not in my area.

...Key Findings

NERC’s annual SRA covers the upcoming four-month (June–September) summer period. This
assessment provides an evaluation of generation resource and transmission system adequacy and
energy sufficiency to meet projected summer peak demands and operating reserves. This assessment
identifies potential reliability issues of interest and regional topics of concern. While the scope of this
seasonal assessment is focused on the upcoming summer, the key findings are consistent with risks
and issues that NERC has highlighted in the 2021 Long-Term Reliability Assessment and other earlier
reliability assessments and reports.

The following findings are NERC and the ERO Enterprise’s independent evaluation of electricity
generation and transmission capacity and potential operational concerns that may need to be
addressed for the 2022 summer:

Summer Resource Adequacy Assessment and Energy Risk Analysis

 Midcontinent ISO (MISO) faces a capacity shortfall in its North and Central areas, resulting
in high risk of energy emergencies during peak summer conditions. Capacity shortfall
projections reported in the 2021 LTRA and as far back as the 2018 LTRA have continued. Load
serving entities in 4 of 11 zones entered the annual planning resource auction (PRA) in April
2022 without enough owned or contracted capacity to cover their requirements. Across
MISO, peak demand projections have increased by 1.7% since last summer due in part to a
return to normal demand patterns that have been altered in prior years by the pandemic.
However, more impactful is the drop in capacity in the most recent PRA: MISO will have 3,200
MW (2.3%) less generation capacity than in the summer of 2021. System operators in MISO
are more likely to need operating mitigations, such as load modifying resources or non-firm
imports, to meet reserve requirements under normal peak summer conditions. More extreme
temperatures, higher generation outages, or low wind conditions expose the MISO North and
Central areas to higher risk of temporary operator-initiated load shedding to maintain system
reliability.

 At the start of the summer, a key transmission line connecting MISO’s northern and
southern areas will be out of service. Restoration continues on a 4-mile section of 500 kV
transmission line that was damaged by a tornado during severe storms on December 10,
2021. The transmission outage affects 1,000 MW of firm transfers between the Midwestern
and Southern MISO system that includes parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The
transmission line is expected to be restored at the end of June 2022. ...

During a dry run BPA asked the region to conserve. We did so well they had to raise prices to cover expenses.

I will stuff a cloth under the front and back doors. We are all in this together.

How the hell is this gonna work once everybody comes home from work and plugs in their electric cars to charge?
I’ve noticed the TVA isn’t building more power plants, at least not in my area.

I see no reason to panic, the government is in charge and headed by the best president money can buy......lol

TVA still runs several Nuke fired plants, right?