General Electric to scrap California power plant 20 years early

reuters ^

[Java4Jay]

eneral Electric Co said on Friday it plans to demolish a large power plant it owns in California this year after only one-third of its useful life because the plant is no longer economically viable in a state where wind and solar supply a growing share of inexpensive electricity.

[Bonemaker]

California would be better off being run by French politicians than democrats.

[Bonemaker]

“..the plant is no longer economically viable in a state where wind and solar supply a growing share of inexpensive electricity..”

If those strokes want to run off windmills and monocrystalline silicon let ‘em.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Non-nuke gas plant? You can just lock the gate.

[butlerweave]

There is not enough land in California for all wind and solar they’ll need to keep going

[richardtavor]

That is because wind and solar are highly subsidized.

[Bonemaker]

Only legal "car" in CA if their politicians have their way:

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

“Wind and solar are NOT inexpensive...”
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You said it!

Here in Maine, they are planning to build two giant wind mills off the coast. Price Tag....$200 million dollars.

Thanks to our moonbat governor Janet Mills and the democrat controlled Maine House and Senate.

Central Maine Power customers will get a rate increase as a result.

Maine could get cheap hydro-electric power from Quebec, but no-o-o-o-....it has to be wind or solar.

[vigilence]

Yeh, trouble is I’ve lived here most of my 71 years and it just keeps getting worse. And now if you want to sell your house and move out of state you have to pay a fee! And with power going up rapidly each year I just installed solar on my house because the projected Return On Investment is down to seven years.

[mrsmith]

Without the requirement to buy “green energy credits”, maybe it would still be usable?

[Logical me]

Wind and solar power is not dependable. We will have power shortages like a third world. And California has moved in the third world category a long time ago just a question of time before we see it going to hell.

[Jeff Chandler]

[Scrambler Bob]

And now if you want to sell your house and move out of state you have to pay a fee!
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As I read it, you pay a property transfer tax when you sell your house, whether you leave or stay in the state.

Do you know different?

[DUMBGRUNT]

Unsure about California, Most of Illinois requires a Licensed Stationary Engineer on site with high-pressure steam service.

A building that I worked in retrofitted from HP to low-pressure steam for that reason.

[AFPhys]

I need a California resident to let me know how much he/she is paying for electricity per KW-hr. Include taxes and fees, please. Probably the easiest thing is to give a small table:

KW-hrs
Total Tax
Total Fees
Total cost

I can do the rest.

Thanks.

[butlerweave]

They can give up Air Conditioning ,I here the Sun stopped shining in LA

[GOP Congress]

The brownouts will start occurring this fall. Bank.

[GOP Congress]

Here's a link to a page containing typical bills. Though it's put out by an electric company, it looks somewhat similar to a bill I was paying when I left California five years ago.

[vigilence]

Yes, you’re right. But they are taxing an asset that you want to sell after paying for it with after tax money, money you’ve already been taxed on! How is double taxation legal by one entity?

[marajade]

They are getting sued because CA gov’t officials are tree huggers.

[Glad2bnuts]

It seems to me that the plant is not good because they want something that doesn’t put out power all day, or when the wind is blowing, but snaps to during times when solar and wind are not working. The problem to me seems to be that they should be running it at all times, instead of relying on wind and solar, which take more fossil fuel energy to build and sustain, than simply using coal, NG, or hydro. Stupid people stupid stupid stupid people.