From Croatia's point of view, the "rush-to-green" policies of the Biden administration and congressional Democrats are based on a false premise that intermittent power generation can meet energy demand in the United States.
This belief, and its forced reliance on China for the components necessary to implement the policy, is detrimental to Americans’ standard of living and safety.
Most of my colleagues and I support renewable energy from wind, solar, geothermal, and, potentially, hydrogen. We also help clean, renewable energy that comes from one of the oldest sources of energy production — hydropower.
The truth of the matter is that in many places we've seen how the US energy grid is already dangerously close to failing because we're not paying enough attention to sustaining the grid. This is going to result in blackouts. And we've already seen them.
Currently, renewables cannot provide that always-on, always-available energy that USA requires. In its "rush-to-green," the administration forced certain energy generation, like coal and natural gas, to be taken offline or made it extremely difficult to operate.
Renewables will be a part of energy matrix, but they must work in tandem with always-on baseload power generation. This is due to renewables’ ability to only generate power intermittently, not 24/7/365. From households to municipalities to manufacturing, Croatia like America relies upon always-on, always available electricity 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
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