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#COP28: Electricity: Christmas 2022, Christmas 2023 and the looming threat of a blackout for week, which the WSJ calls "Zombie Apocalypse." SalenaZito,com

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🗓️ 2 December 2023

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#COP28: Electricity: Christmas 2022, Christmas 2023 and the looming threat of a blackout for week, which the WSJ calls "Zombie Apocalypse." SalenaZito,com
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/one-year-after-winter-storm-elliot-our-grid-problem-remains-dire

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0:00.0

This is a

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CBS High on the World. I'm John Batcheler.

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zombie apocalypse says the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal,

0:10.0

a near catastrophe in the winter of 23.

0:13.6

Will it be repeated in the winter of 24?

0:16.7

I welcome Selina Zito of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette,

0:19.7

the Washington Examiner, the New York Post,

0:22.1

writing about this several days before the

0:24.0

zombie apocalypse appeared in the editor page of the Wall Street Journal. I put these

0:28.3

together because Salina observes there was a moment in Christmas of 22 into the winter of 23 when we were very close to losing

0:39.7

the electric grid on the east coast of the United States where it is assumed to be

0:45.4

strongest. Selina, what zombie apocalypse of her refers to of course is a

0:51.2

Hollywood version of what happens when the lights go out.

0:54.4

What is the risk you've learned from this new report from the North American Electric

0:58.8

Reliability Corporation?

1:01.1

Good evening to you.

1:02.1

Good evening and we can call them NERC from now on.

1:05.0

That's how they're referred to.

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So this report was pretty damning and serves as a great warning that we learned nothing from Winter Storm

1:18.6

Elliot last year, I believe that's the name of it, which took out the grid or put us on sort of notice that we have a problem with

1:31.0

rolling blackouts.

1:33.1

The one of the most famous ones happened in the Carolinas

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