Posted on 04/12/2023 4:39:21 PM PDT by Libloather
Michigan Senate Democrats on Wednesday announced a sweeping bill package that aims to put legal teeth behind efforts to wean Michigan off fossil fuels.
The package, which Democratic leaders said would be filed by Thursday, would require state-regulated utilities to stop burning coal by 2030, and would require them to deliver 100 percent clean energy by 2035.
Senate Democrats spokesperson Rosie Jones initially said Wednesday that would be a renewable energy requirement but later clarified the bill would require “carbon-free” energy. She did not specify whether that leaves the door open to utilities continuing to use fossil fuels while deploying carbon capture technology or other means of offsetting emissions.
The bill package would also require utilities to prioritize energy efficiency by strengthening the state’s so-called energy waste reduction standard and applying it to more utilities.
Senate Majority Floor Leader Sam Singh, D-East Lansing, hailed the pending package as long overdue and said legislative Democrats “really wanted to focus on climate” as they enter their second quarter in power.
Singh said the package amounts to the largest rewrite of Michigan energy law since the sweeping 2016 reforms that, among other things, required utilities to get 15 percent of their energy from renewables by 2021.
“It allows protection of our residents, it protects our (electricity) rates, and then it allows for us to be able to tackle a very difficult issue of climate,” Singh said.
He added that “it's time for us to be moving beyond just goals,” instead setting new, enforceable green energy targets that utilities must meet.
Jeff Wiggins, press secretary for Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt, R-Lawton, decried the bills as “another energy plan from the ‘lost decade,’ the first decade of the 2000s when Michigan struggled against slow economic growth and low employment rates.
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Is this the same as outlawing all natural gas furnaces and stoves? In Michigan? Sounds like a great idea.
Are there any FReepers who will remain in Michigan? If so, why?
Science illiteracy abounds in MI.
YUP
Actually pumping water uphill is done.
Coal fired and nuclear power plants do not shut down and run 24/7. So, hydro dams produce water to be used during peak times. Peak rates are charged, during off peak when rates are lower, power generated but not sold to customers is used to pump the water back uphill. There is no perpetual energy just a use of excess capacity.
“They expect to have a country in 2035?”
We’ll have a civil war long before that.
Impossible to achieve without going back to 18th century standard of living. Bake in the summer and worse freeze in the winter. Of course that’s the goal. Democrats don’t understand physics or economics nor do they want to. It’s all about the latest fad from the chicken littles.
I did, in 2009 when I retired.
But now I fear inundation by frozen, destitute migrants from Michigan when the MI economy implodes and even food becomes scarce up there.
But we ARE a Constitutional Carry state, so that's a plus.
Glad I moved from there when it was still a thriving, relatively safe area. My wife went back there to see her dad and she said it’s changed drastically.
It’s sad really, these kids are indoctrinated in school, it’s takes an almost near death experience before they open their eyes
Biden’s America - A Society That Has Given Up on Itself
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4144891/posts
Author’s observation while traveling cross country:
“It was a country I didn’t know from my apartment in the city and a life spent online.”
We are going to need that generator
I was born in Ohio so technically I would be going back home. 😉
Yep. At this point only solar would be safe from the energy grabbers.
Heritage property going back 150 years. Also, some of my ancestors go back to when Michigan was Quebec. Tearing up those roots would be painful.
How do you power an auto manufacturing plant with wind and sun?
Flip the swith to “off” now, and let them see what they want. (Pun imtended).
Glad I left there almost 20 years ago.
Let them freeze in the dark.
I have a bag of those, sh×t ain’t cheap.
Does this mean Patagonia clothing, you know, the clothing loved by the left, will no longer be made from oil?
Asking for a friend.
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