failed transition to green energy: all these are the reasons that lead us to think that the world electricity grid this summer will not withstand the demand for air conditioners, forcing perhaps 1 billion people to continue blackouts.
The figure was calculated by the American economic newspaper Bloomberg., Which speaks of Asia, Europe and North America as the most affected areas, as they are more equipped with energy-intensive domestic air conditioning systems.
"The heat wave in Asia caused daily blackouts of hours, putting more than 1 billion people at risk in Pakistan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and India, with little relief in sight," Bloomberg writes.
Six Texas power plants failed earlier this month as summer heat just started to arrive, offering a preview of what's to come. At least a dozen states in the United States, from California to the Great Lakes, are at risk of power outages this summer. "
“Energy supplies will be limited in China and Japan. South Africa is poised for a record year of power outages. And Europe is in a precarious position held back by Russia: if Moscow cuts off natural gas in the region, this could trigger continuous outages in some countries ”.
Bloomberg analyst Shantanu Jaiswal says the combination of "war and sanctions" disrupting commodity markets, "extreme weather" and "an economic rebound from COVID that increases energy demand" is a "unique" situation. and he "can't remember" the last time a "confluence of so many factors" happened together.
Basically, a perfect storm.
Henning Gloystein, an analyst at Eurasia Group, warns that if major blackouts spread around the world this summer, "this could trigger some form of humanitarian crisis in terms of food and energy shortages on a scale not seen in decades. ".
As constantly reported by Renovatio 21, between winter 2021 and 2022 blackouts became an imminent threat or reality in various countries of the world: China, Turkey, Japan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Taiwan, Kyrgyzstan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan. Blackouts in the USA were already beginning to be expected two weeks ago.
For fear of blackouts, Indonesia has banned the export of coal.
EU countries such as Austria and Romania started talking politically and on TV about blackouts last autumn. Germany aired apocalyptic commercials to prepare Germans (and immigrants in Germany, judging by the video) for a winter in which heating could fail.
In Germany, a country that risked a gas blackout at the beginning of the year due to privatization, last week the railways stopped all freight trains due to a blackout.
The issue of blackouts had been dealt with by a document of the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic (COPASIR), the body that controls the Italian secret services. The Minister of Economic Development Giancarlo Giorgetti 4 months ago in front of an audience of entrepreneurs spoke apertis verbis of blackout risk.
If we think about it, Blackout is a more advanced form of lockdown: it blocks Civilization quite permanently.
An interruption of basic services would quickly lead to the collapse of the laws of the states, with the consequent establishment of a new order that could be proposed by anyone who said they were ready to give the solution.
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