I’m all for good stewardship of God’s creation, but the green energy movement seems to attract con artists like no tomorrow.
The Green Agenda only destroys the Green plants
Higher than Commiefornia?
In the 2010s NY Liberals, Andrew Cuomo and the NGO Riverkeeper (headed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr) lobbied to shut down NY’s Indian Point nuclear plant.
Indian Point supplied 2 GW, or about 1/3 of NY City’s baseload power. It was built in the 1960s, never had any accidents, was fully depreciated, and supplied power for about 2.8 cents per KWH! (NY City residential power bills are about 31 cents/KWH)
It finally closed in April 2021, just a few months before sex-pest Governor Andrew Cuomo was deposed by fellow leftists in New York
“....while families were left to pay the tab....”
The same dumshits who keep electing their tormenters.
The cascade of medicare costs started in 2022 too. Look at us now.
I sometimes feel bad for the middle class in those insane liberal democommie states. The poor always vote for the democrats to get free stuff so they don’t care that their energy costs are high. Some chump taxpayers covers their bills. The rich don’t care because the cost of energy doesn’t matter to them and vote for democrats to assuage their guilt for being wealthy. The middle class. They get to pay for it all. To paraphrase WIllie Sutton, “That’s where the money is.”
Green energy is all about that extra green you have to spend in order to get it.
Keep voting Democrat. FAFO. The residents of the Northeast are now finding out.
I expect sooner or later an extended arctic blast will overwhelm the windmills and solar farms and leave residents of large areas of the country freezing in the dark, EVs stranded and even essential services like water and sewer unavailable for long periods of time. It happened in Texas several years ago and will happen again.
If all had gone according to plan, the Constitution pipeline would be carrying fracked gas 124 miles from the shale gas fields of Pennsylvania through streams, wetlands, and backyards across the Southern Tier of New York until west of Albany. There it would join two existing pipelines, one that extends into New England and the other to the Ontario border as part of a vast network that moves fracked gas throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. For a while, everything unfolded as expected. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project in 2014, the U.S. was in the midst of a fracking boom that would make it the world’s largest producer of natural gas and crude oil... Yet the developers did not anticipate landowners, neighborhood residents, community leaders, and anti-fracking activists statewide forging a coalition to kill the pipeline. In a landmark defeat, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation denied the project’s water-quality certificate in 2016, leading Williams to abandon it in early 2020.
The defeat of the Constitution pipeline marked the start of an uncertain era for interstate pipelines in New York and beyond. The company behind the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, which would have carried shale gas through New York into New England, abandoned the project just days before the state rejected the Constitution pipeline. In 2017, developers walked away from the Pilgrim pipelines, which would have funneled fracked oil from New York to New Jersey. In May, state officials denied a key permit for the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, commonly referred to as the Williams pipeline, between New Jersey and New York City. - https://grist.org/fix/advocacy/how-activists-shut-down-key-pipeline-projects-new-york/Simply put, natural gas pipelines that could bring abundant gas supplies from Appalachia’s Marcellus shale region have been blocked at every turn over many years. ..All six New England states rank among the top ten highest electricity rates in the continental U.S...It’s also worth noting that a ban on LNG exports wouldn’t increase the amount of U.S. LNG available to the Northeast. That’s because the century-old Jones Act—which limits trade between U.S. ports to American-flagged ships only—effectively prohibits LNG imports from the Gulf Coast. Instead, New England pays top dollar for cargoes from Trinidad, Nigeria, and occasionally even Russia.-https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/02/18/northeast_pipeline_blockade_delivers_trifecta_of_bad_outcomes_dependence_on_fuel_oil_higher_prices_and_more_foreign_energy_imports_817354.html
Right now this second power is being sold for $16.65 per megawatt hours in Texas. That’s 1.6 cents per kilowatt hour. Natural gas turbines at $4MMBTU industrial wholesale gas prices break even at 7.5-9 cents per kilowatt hour. You do the math. It’s not emotions, feelings or hunches this is real data, and real prices from ERCOT the wholesale market for all power inside the Texas grid.
Left is actually being produced , right is firm monthly capacity. The market is being set by wind right now this second.
Wind18,550 MW(35.8%) 40,183 MW
Hydro18 MW(0.0%) 573 MW
Power Storage1 MW(0.0%) 13,861 MW
Other50 MW(0.1%) 142 MW
Natural Gas22,001 MW(42.4%) 66,438 MW
Coal and Lignite6,253 MW(12.1%)12,812 MW
Nuclear4,985 MW(9.6%) 5,268 MW