Stories We Might Get To Before The End Of The Day, Part 1 -- August 22, 2021

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One wonders if these "transitory" power states will be like "transitory inflation." 

Record: electricity demand in lower 48 states reaches a high of 720 gigawatthours on August 12, 2021 -- a couple of things

• EVs account for less than 0.001% of US electricity demand; but not to worry, folks re-charge their EVs at night;
• what comes after "giga" -- 720 is coming very close to 1,000. I guess it's "tera." 
• the hottest days of the summer are yet to be recorded
• school hasn't begun
• people have not yet gone back to work due to Covid-19
• people have not yet gone back to work while receiving supplemental unemployment "insurance"
• a lot of the California grid is shut down due to wildfires
  

New England: Clean Energy Connect transmission line -- shut down by judge; absent some late reversal on appeal (highly unlikely), the project faces years' long, DAPL-like, delay and probably cancellation. Update from earlier this spring. Reader's note suggests the project is delayed once again by judge.