IVB
Senior Member
Not to nitpick, but technically 36 new plants and 13K Megawatts were added, sure, but 6K megawatts in old and dirty power plants were retired.dublin00 said:They built 47 new power plants in the last 5 years! The problem is that we built millions of new homes over the same period so increasing demand is far out-stripping capacity.upstatemike said:Getting California to build enough power plants to match the demand would go a long way towards helping things in your area too.
Personally I think that this shows that the current system/model is starting to fail. Many of my friends/co-workers are from over-seas and all of the asian contries are modernizing rapidly. Soon they will want a big slice of the available oil pie too and then no number of new power plants will help us.
net increase wasn't as big as some would think, but yes, lots of new ones were added. And yes, the problem is getting worse, not better.
It's the same as it ever was - we need more power every day, and our current power supplies cannot keep up, and the natural resources are smaller than they have ever been.