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by onpensionsterm 1355 days ago
>we haven’t had to increase the capacity of our electric grid in decades

Who's we? In China, generation has doubled in a decade. What a sad time to be alive if even existential failure isn't a strong enough motivator to get a developed country to pay for some infrastructure.

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The US. Since I was posting statistics for CA, I had hoped that was clear. Sorry if it wasn't.

Here's CA, a state well known for its rolling brownouts throughout summer, as an example:

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...