I work at a former coal plant now gas plant. I will tell you the issue is real. In the last 10 years we have shutdown over half of our 500 coal plants in the US.

In the last two years we have been very close to rolling brownouts. I have never seen it this bad. We had nearly 30 condition orange situations last year. This year looks to be worse and they have no plan for next year. Couple that with the near state of disrepair of our units. We use to run these plants balls to the wall until outage season. To bring a unit down was the greatest sin. Now they come down all the time for failures and issues. Repair parts are sourced in weeks and months. Even the new units are not maintained with correct manpower or preventive maintenance. We have 1/4 the staff of 10 years ago, and not even less experience. Very few folks between 30 and 60.

I would not rely on the grid in the near future. With the carbon free push from the PUCs, and no solid storage solutions for wind and solar, it doesn't look good. Politicians don't care, they don't feel the pain of blackouts, and most energy companies hands are tied on new generation.

I would be very curious to hear the experiences from other folks in the energy field.

I honestly don't know how class action lawsuits work. Can anyone else join in on them?

God Bless our friends north of the border. You are never alone.

My child was very speech delayed. (before covid) It resulted in her being delayed in everything else as well. We had her on an IEP for about everything. If you don't catch it early and work with them on the development, those neuropathways will never develop. My understanding is you have till about the age of 3 to get things corrected, before you cannot fix some of the developmental issues. My heart goes out to those kids with families unaware of the lifelong consequences of something seemingly so inconsequential as delayed speech.