[ajross]

I'm not sure I see the evidence you're invoking? "Grid meltdowns" are quite rare, actually, and on the whole electrical infrastructure has been getting more reliable over time, not less.

And in any case the two biggest "meltdown" events in recent history in the USA were in... Texas, and had to do with weather effects on fossil fuel generators.

[infamia]

California has had rolling outages for years and in 2020 they had a blackout that impacted hundreds of thousands of residents during a heatwave. The failure occurred a bit after dusk when solar stopped producing and other states didn't have as much power to send to California to make up he difference. All the information is in the link below. California's energy policy looks a lot like Germany's which is to heavily weight your grid towards renewables, call yourself green, and then prey your neighbors produce enough energy to keep your grid stable. All the information is in the link below. The governor of California enacted a state of emergency concerning power shortages and narrowly averted another grid failure last month, so I wouldn't say that their reliability is anywhere close to acceptable.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/story/2020-10-...

[pfdietz]

Also weather effects on a nuclear plant there.