Comment by phil21

When you are being spammed with grifters who are basically using system inefficiencies, subsidy, and dumping externalities onto the public grid there is very little way to keep up.

If all the actors here were acting in good faith, I would agree. This is not a problem of well-sited and competently researched energy generation plans simply being held up by nothing but red tape and a rubber stamp.

There is certainly some of that, but it’s not the whole story. Operating the grid has historically taken a lot of “gentleman’s agreements” and inertia from the proper overengineering of overbuilding from generation’s past to function. Those social constructs have largely broken down by now.

When you don’t build stuff for a generation (no pun intended) you lose the ability to.

Interesting times ahead indeed.