It’s not only Texas. In the country, power grids are straining to maintain air conditioners during this brutal heat.
- MISO MISO, the operator of the grid for 15 states and a portion of Canada, issued a warning this week concerning high power usage, high temperatures, and “additional resource uncertainty.”
- Additionally, PJM Interconnection LLC, the largest electricity grid provider in the United States that supplies wholesale electricity across all or portions of 13 states, declared the emergency a ” level one emergency.”
The power grid’s problems aren’t an accident. They’re a wake-up alarm to be aware that our power grids are being sabotaged by increasingly extreme weather.
Freedom Solar’s roots are in Texas, so we’ve got early access to some of these challenges. Of course, we’re in the center of a scorching and unending heatwave with a seemingly never-ending series of days with triple-digit temperatures. However, we’ve also had many brutal winters in which power plants were frozen, and pipelines for gas ( in 2021) and falling, icy branches of trees ( in 2023) made people feel cold in darkness.
BOTH SUMMER AND WINTER OFFER POWERFUL REMINDERS THAT THE ENERGY WORLD IS CHANGING, AND WE HAVE THE POWER TO CHANGE WITH IT.
Freedom Solar is growing fast in Texas and markets like Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. No matter where we go, there is the same problem both businesses and homeowners are vulnerable to in the face of a strained power grid and the vast bills resulting from that stress.
Through solar energy, these consumers can produce their power during the hottest times in the afternoon, when electricity is the most expensive. If they purchase large batteries, like Tesla Powerwall or Tesla Powerwall, they can store power when it’s affordable and plentiful. They can then use it to cool or heat their homes and charge their devices to maintain control and keep the refrigerator running when electricity becomes too expensive or ceases to exist altogether. This is how many of our customers survived the winter storm of ice in Austin in the winter months and are protecting themselves from power blackouts for the year ahead…
IT’S TIME FOR AMERICANS TO LIVE MORE POWERFULLY BY TAPPING INTO THE SUN’S ABUNDANT ENERGY AND CREATING A MORE RESILIENT, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY FUTURE.
Repetition of conservation calls could seem like broken records; however, they’re also a call to action. The power grids could become more fragile, and the weather will surely increase in intensity, but the sun will not disappear.