The U.S. Department of Energy issued an emergency order across 17 states directing the employment of unused backup generation to keep power during summer heat, and an energy industry advocate says the emergency points to the unreliability and failure of wind and solar power.
Founder and director of energy worker advocacy group Power the Future Daniel Turner told The Center Square: “We've been powering this country with electricity for almost 150 years – through World War II, through the Great Depression, through the Dust Bowl – and we've never had electricity problems until the last 20 years.”
“The American people need to ask why,” Turner said. “The American people need to understand where their energy comes from, and why it has been either politicized or weaponized.”
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