North America’s electricity grid faces “critical reliability challenges” as power generation fails to keep pace with surging demand from artificial intelligence, the industry watchdog has warned.
Soaring electricity consumption in the next decade, coupled with the closure of coal-fired plants, will place huge strain on US and Canadian grids, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation has found.
The shortfall could cause blackouts during peak demand periods in both countries, and will be worsened by delays in adding solar generation capacity, batteries and hybrid resources to the grid, according to NERC.
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