Welp, just like that, the tropics have started to heat up. Climate alarm propagandists will no doubt say it’s all a part of climate change, but the truth is this is literally clockwork: Hurricane season - which the government says starts on June 1 - always tends to crank up in earnest along about mid-August. This is normal. Period.
Here’s the thing about this: The United States power industry currently has a looming crisis in the supply of power transformers. In a transmission line, these transformers serve the function of stepping up voltage to higher levels. That serves to minimize power loss as the electricity travels long distances through power lines. Simply put, you cannot build or repair power lines without a ready supply of transformers.
So, why am I writing this here today? Because I remember Hurricane Harvey and the devastation it caused to the transmission systems across wide swaths of Texas and Louisiana. And because I’ve interviewed several senior executives in the power industry in recent months, all of whom tell me that we currently would have great difficulty recovering in any timely way from another Harvey-type event.