Posted on 12/23/2021 6:36:59 AM PST by artichokegrower
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), at the behest of the Biden Administration, approved two major solar projects at a Riverside County site on Tuesday, with a third likely to be approved soon.
Both California and the federal government have pushed for more renewable and carbon-free energy sources in California in recent years. President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order earlier this year pushing for 25 gigawatts of onshore renewable energy by 2025, setting a goal of creating a carbon pollution free energy sector by 2035. California has also set lofty renewable energy goals, such as having a 100% carbon-free public utility deadline for 2045.
Many renewable projects to meet these goals have been tied in with President Biden’s $2 trillion Build Back Better plan being passed. However, due to Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) refusal to back the plan in recent days, funding for many renewable energy plants across the country have been put on hold.
(Excerpt) Read more at californiaglobe.com ...
That is just what California needs... more undependable government funded power projects that will have to be backed up with conventional power plants.
No problem decimating BLM land for a “feel good” solar project, but don’t try to drill for hydrocarbons. One covers thousands of acres and will be “abandoned in place” another covers ten acres and will leave barely a trace after they’re gone.
Extra points for guessing which is which and their respective contributions to our total energy demands.
Ask Joe who manufactured the panels. Then ask how Hunter is connected to the panel business.
This is a payoff to some utility monopoly and to some friend who gets a no-bid contract (or “show-bid” contract).
You will soon know where the money went. Into RAT pockets. This is how they hide the theft.
Can you say Solyndra?
Another Solyndra fiasco in the making, but you can bet that Joe and friends will make a bazillion dollars on the deal.
More dead birds.
If these projects made any real economic sense, private capital would fund, build and run them. Government subsidies are worse than useless if a project is inherently unprofitable. Elon Musk has done his best to make solar projects profitable in Australia. He tried to create a massive battery storage facility adjacent to a huge solar farm to creat a reliable, constant flow of electricity. It essentially failed and capital was squandered. Build Back Better clean energy projects will squander capital on a massive basis.
“Ivanpah was advertised as designed to produce 940,000 MWh of electricity per year, based on its nameplate capacity and assumed capacity factor. In its second year of operation, Ivanpah’s production of 653,122 MWh of net electricity was 69.5 percent of this value, ramping up from 44.6 percent in the first year. In its seventh year (2020), the annual production was 91.1% of its advertised value.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
“In November 2011, Google announced that it would no longer invest in the facility due to the rapid decline of the price of photovoltaic systems.”
Clearway has a lot of lobbyists who used to work for members of Congress...
A lot.
Note to any journos worthy of the description: Hint, hint...
Now that the eagles have been thoroughly mix mastered by wind power….let’s cook em with solar
“Can you say Solyndra?”
I’m sure it was a total success.
At stuffing donor pockets with taxpayer’s cash.
Slush fund for parasites........the Biden Crime Family.
It is astonishing how they will keep banging their heads (and our wallets) against the wall trying to get solar to work. It’s a real sign of mental illness.
Unfortunately, we all suffer from this idiocy in many ways...higher utility rates, less reliable electricity, eventually intermittent electricity, market distortions, deficit spending, inflation, crowding out alternative beneficial investments, millions of dead birds, bights on the landscape, failed projects that don’t get torn down, highly toxic waste, industry moving to areas with reliable, low-cost power, etc, etc.
Here’s an update on this fiasco:
I see more failures in the future. IIRC I read on of the proposed plants will supply “enough power” for 118,000 homes. Which is a spit in a bucket. Why yes Virginia, people are idiots.
I think the endless miles of windmills and solar project spread all across so cal are a crime against humanity.
Dependable ‘green power’ ... for seven hours a day.
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