Florence crippled electricity and coal -- solar and wind were back the next day

[G_j]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hurricane-florence-crippled-electricity-and-coal-solar-and-wind-were-back-the-next-day/

Nearly two weeks after Hurricane Florence swamped orth and South Carolina, thousands of residents who get power from coal-fired utilities remain without electricity.

Yet solar installations, which provide less than 5 percent of North Carolina's energy, were up and running the day after the storm, according to electricity news outlet GTM. And while half of Duke Energy's customers were without power at some point, according to CleanTechnica, the utility's solar farms sustained no damage.


Traditional energy providers have fared less well. A dam breach at the L.V. Sutton Power Station, a retired coal-fired power plant near Wilmington, North Carolina, has sent coal ash flowing into a nearby river. Another plant near Goldsboro has three flooded ash basins, according to the Associated Press, while in South Carolina, floodwaters are reportedly threatening pits that contain ash, an industrial waste from burning coal.

The lesson, according to environmentalists: Utilities' vulnerability to major storms underscores the urgency of shifting to energy that it is not only clean and renewable, but also more resilient.

[AllaN01Bear]

1. i would love to have a grid tied solar or wind setup but i live in an apartment.

if tesla( the scientist , not the car company) had his way, there would be domes with equipment to relay electricity rather than wires.

[Freethinker65]

2. Someone get that info to Hannity so Trump will hear it

[riversedge]

3. k for visibility

[gratuitous]

4. Gee, this seems significant

You'd think the media would want to tout how quickly power was restored in some areas. Well, unless reporting that made some of their sponsors mad. Then they'd probably want to let this information slip down the memory hole as quickly as possible.

[malaise]

5. K & R

This is good news