Energy Grid Changes Leave California And The Midwest Vulnerable To Blackouts

California and parts of the Midwest are at a high risk of electricity shortages in the coming years amid the transformation of their grid from one reliant on fossil fuels to one reliant on other sources of energy such as wind and solar. The warning comes from the latest annual assessment of the grid by the North American Reliability Corporation, as cited by CNBC. According to the assessment, the Midwest and Ontario in Canada risk power shortages because they are retiring more generation capacity than they are adding. At the same time, California’s…