Posted on 06/01/2022 8:30:45 AM PDT by rktman
The Biden administration unveiled a policy Tuesday evening making it cheaper for green energy developers to build and maintain projects on federal lands.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the federal government would reduce rents and fees charged for wind and solar projects on public lands during a roundtable Tuesday with U.S. and state officials in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) expects the policy to reduce rents and fees by more than 50% when implemented.
“Clean energy projects on public lands have an important role to play in reducing our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions and lowering costs for families,” Haaland said in a statement.
“The Bureau of Land Management continues to take bold steps to attract renewable energy investments on public lands in a way that is environmentally sound,” BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning added. “This will help support our clean energy economy by creating good paying jobs, increasing our energy security, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.”
Meanwhile, the Department of the Interior (DOI) reduced land available for oil and gas leasing by 80% and increased royalty rates for leases by 50% in April. The average price of gasoline nationwide surged to $4.67 a gallon Wednesday, an all-time record, AAA data showed.
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The bipartisan Energy Act of 2020 authorized the BLM to alter rents and fees for green energy to promote solar and wind development, the DOI said. The legislation also required the DOI to permit at least 25 gigawatts (GW) of wind, solar and geothermal project capacity by 2025.
“The new rate reduction policy for solar and wind, as well as the BLM’s prioritization of applications, will incentivize industry to partner in responsible solar and wind development,” the DOI said.
The federal government approved 12 renewable energy projects on federal lands with a total capacity of 2.9 GW in 2021, Reuters reported. The DOI projected it would collect more than $4.6 billion in rents and royalty fees from renewable energy projects in 2022, according to its proposed fiscal year 2023 budget.
In addition, Haaland said the BLM would establish five Renewable Energy Coordination Offices throughout the west to handle the increased number of applications for solar and wind projects on federal lands.
“Nevada’s public lands contain some of our nation’s best wind, geothermal, and solar opportunities and by carefully locating these developments, we can invest in local economies by creating new jobs and infrastructure while combating the climate crisis,” Paul Selberg, the executive director of the Nevada Conservation League, said in a statement applauding DOI’s policy change Wednesday.
Lucky us in nevaDUH huh. Without govt handouts the wind and solar would be DOA. Our tax dollars at, well let's just say fraud, waste and abuse. Anyone remember the Crescent Dunes failed solar project outside of Tonopah NV? IIRC it is now finally producing power. Billion or so wasted.
FanFreakinTabulous
Invest in the blight of the earth
You destroy the energy sector and then you wonder why the economy contracts and you have inflation? Delusional people should not make policy.
Obambi did the same thing ...
Renewable are about saving the planet the same way CoupFlu policy is about protecting the public health.
Oh?
But you can’t have fossil fuel projects on public lands.
Watch for big profits for the Pelosis and the Bidens like Solyndra Version 2.0.
If anyone thinks solar is a good idea they should put their money where their mouth is and put it onto their own house, not force the rest of us to subsidize BLM and DOE bureaucrats to mismanage energy with their regulations and cronies.
It’s not brandon people....he’s just the useful idiot that can green light it.
Just thinking, if these policies make the whole world a third world hell hole, will we all be equal?
In our area, it means using farmland....just plain stupid.
How many wind turbines/solar panels will each car get ?
A lot of folks do their own house but as the main means of supplying power for a large number............. IIRC there is a plan to use 30 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico for wind generation. To supply 11 million homes. Uh, WTAF? Just wait until a Cat 5 meanders by. Pretty sure that new Ford EV F-150 aint’t gonna power your house for 3 or 4 weeks while they try to get the power back on. 😵💫🤬
I would like a pink windmill for the roof of my car -
it would look so pretty on a blue car...BTW, how many windmills will I need to drive from New England to Tennessee...
Anybody want to do the math? Anyone? anyone?
That 30 million boils down to 2.7 acres per house. Not sure if they are including businesses with the 30 million. Insanity reigns bigly.
I'm assuming that solar farm is meant to supply power to a larger area, not just the farmer and his equipment?
If it's just for the farmer I'm 100% for it. I have a solar system on my house and I love it so much I'm upgrading it and getting an electric car. But I'm in a good situation for it (in the south, own my home, plan to live there the rest of my life, metal roof, large portion of my roof facing south, no shade) and I manage it myself -- making it much more efficient than bureaucrats do things. I produced 59% of all the power I consumed last year, pulling 41% from the grid. After the upgrade I'll produce about 90% of all the power I need, even with charging the EV.
Even with all of that working in my favor, I'll still be 10% dependent on the grid. All the Dims' talk about getting completely off fossil fuels is bull crap.
Great idea, you twit. You learned nothing from the problems experienced in TX with respect to solar and wind?
When the power goes out for weeks after a hurricane you'll produce your own power. But that's only if you don't sell power back to the grid.
Yep.
They want to move the world from Oil, Coal and Gas which provides about 84% of the world’s energy to wind/solar , we are in deep trouble ,LOL
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