Posted on 04/26/2025 1:22:59 AM PDT by Libloather
Gov. Kathy Hochul’s green-energy lunacy keeps socking New Yorkers, with the latest blow coming from the Empire Wind One offshore turbine project.
Team Trump has blocked it for now, and that’s great news (despite Eric Adams’ pleading that it should go forward): If it went into operation, New Yorkers would be forced to pay a brain-busting 2.5 times the market rate for energy, an independent analysis found.
The project won a sweetheart contract to provide energy at $155 per megawatt hour, as opposed to the wholesale-market rate of around $50, an effective subsidy on the order of $9 billion over the life of the facility.
Taxpayers will see their bills soar.
Why on earth, you might ask, is that jacked-up rate even on the table?
Because of state mandates pushing “green” energy over cheaper and more reliable gas or nuclear.
Under Andrew Cuomo’s insane Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, New York has to move to 70% renewable energy by 2030, and 100% zero-emissions energy by 2040.
Neither of those goals will be met, of course.
And even if they were, it would make virtually no difference in mitigating climate change, as greenhouse-gas output continues to rise unhindered elsewhere in America and from China, the world’s biggest emitter.
All the law and related policies will do is put ever-tighter squeezes on New Yorkers in pursuit of solar and wind energy and severely limit the available supply of power, boosting the risk of blackouts.
Lose-lose-lose, in other words.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Meanwhile NYSEG is sending humans around to read smart meters.
Why is that...
“Meanwhile NYSEG is sending humans around to read smart meters. Why is that...”
Union boys.
Yes, but think about how many whales are saved
Oh, yeah nevermind
Ummm...155/50 = 3.1.
So, actually more the triple the market rate.
Remember, folks - Gang Green wants you freezing and starving in the dark.
Man made climate change is a lie.
I guess those living in NY and voting for LIB nitwits deserve what they get. As a bonus they have managed to kill many of their beloved whales. LOL! More popcorn!
They are already paying more than 3 times what other states pay per kwh... .22 p/kwh I beleive? I see some states pay around .08 p/kwh
More like “man made energy crisis” - they are turning a perfectly natural cyclical warming trend into an excuse to raise prices for electricity so high that lower middle class folks and the poor who aren’t on welfare yet will be forced onto it IF they want to keep earm, keep cool, drive anywhere, mow their lawns if they have one, etc etc e5c.
I should say “pricing crisis” or “financial crisis”, and not energy crisis as there will still be ample energy. Cheap energy, but folks in blue states will be barred from using it
And whale death count washing up on beach’s increasing too.
Maybe they can go full circle and go back to burning whale oil from all the dead whales washed up on the beaches they killed with their windmills.
Never forget that one of the first things petroleum companies did was to reduce the need to kill whales for their oil.
It’s about the save the whales crew doing a sell off off to the wind power sales crew.
a feel good trade for another feel good deal.
This is happening all over the nation, as costly green power is being used to power new data servers.
Wind and solar are great for power companies - the more they can charge, the higher their profit numbers
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