Posted on 01/16/2021 6:33:46 PM PST by george76
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I really wish they’d put nuke plants here in Colorado.
Thanks, Xcel. How much will the increase in rates be this year?
Lefties dream about intermittent, not reliable electrical production that does not work when the wind does not blow ( or blows too hard ) and when the sun is not shining..
Solar cells are 18% efficient in using photons to drive electrons through a wire.
Breakeven point is 11 years.
The things are virtually dead after 20 years.
Sounds like a great Gumm’nt project to me.
There is limited benefit of solar power. You could install solar panels on your roof and over 20 years it would save you costs on your electric bill. That’s about it, from what I understand? Industrial stage, our technology is not there yet.
Then why do they keep running TV ads bragging about how they’re going to go full-solar and carbon free?
Another monopoly running a government protected racketeering scheme to fleece the masses.
Where is Solyndra when they are needed!
Having lived off grid on solar,... it’s the batteries. Great technology for remote locations. But truthfully, it is both expensive and dirty. Nobody in their right mind would use it for large scale power generation. Not even close to as clean as modern coal power generation.
> The power contract with Kepco would cost Xcel and its customers $121.4 million through the remainder of its term, Xcel says. Paying the termination fee and buying replacement solar energy from other projects would save Xcel customers $38 million, the utility argues.
In other words, the power costs about 3x as much as from some other source. Who wouldn’t want that?
It didn’t take long for these obscene wind and solar farms to be a regurgitated liberal utopia and scam to come to an end.
Exactly!
Flipping Solyndra didn’t work when oil was an obamian $110 a barrel, so it, the technology, is going to fare better when oil is 50 bucks???
Getting out of the power-purchase agreement, which runs through 2022, will save Xcel Energy customers millions over the next 11 years, the company says.
Promising?
It doesn't work. It's never worked. And now, under the Kamala admin, we'll be pumping billions of more dollars into this black hole.
In PA they have replaced most of the coal fired plants with gas. TMI nuke plant shut down. There is now little redundancy or diversity of energy source. With coal fired at least there was reserve coal supply stored on site in hopper cars or piles. If a gas source is lost due to catastrophic pipe line failure etc the plant will be down immediately. Gas energy supply is just in time.
And now the gov of New Mexico is saying she will increase our dependency on solar power.
She and the ‘greenies’ in the state house!
Dare say our electric bills will increase.
They are paying 41 mil to save 38 mil?
Am I missing something?
Cogentrix (original builder) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Goldman Sachs group whose PAC was a top donator to Obama in 2008 and 2009. Hmm....
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