If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. PGE closed its last Oregon-based coal-fired power plant in October 2020, 20 years ahead of schedule, as part of an agreement with stakeholders, customer groups, and regulators to significantly reduce air emissions from power production in Oregon. PGE still receives a small amount of coal-fired power from the Colstrip plant, which is located near Billings, Montana. The company has an ownership stake in the facility, but it plans to exit its ownership in Colstrip no later than 2029.The sheer folly of this is infuriating. There is NO NEED to "decarbonize." They chirpily say "we have to decarbonize without making power unaffordable and unreliable" but there are NO TECHNOLOGIES EXTANT that can do that. They 20 year prematurely shut down a perfectly good, reliable, clean, and low-cost coal plant with no replacement available. Finally, that paragraph immediately above drops the bombshell that PGE, a vertically integrated utility, can no longer produce the power it needs to sell. It has to "procure" from other sources and I expect many of those sources will be from outside Oregon.Up to this point in time, decarbonization has primarily been done with wind, solar, and batteries, and it’s not a new thing for PGE. The company’s first wind farm—the Biglow Canyon site—began operation in 2007. Meanwhile, in 2012, PGE opened the Camino del Sol Solar Station, an interstate highway solar project. Since then, the company has partnered with schools, government agencies, and corporations to grow solar energy throughout Oregon. In partnership with NextEra Energy Resources, it also opened North America’s first major renewable energy facility to combine wind, solar, and battery storage in one location—the Wheatridge Renewable Energy Facility in Morrow County. Today, PGE boasts having more than 1 GW of wind power capacity in service in the Northwest, and it aims to procure between 3.5 GW and 4.5 GW of new non-emitting resources and storage between now and 2030.
Lastly, Oregon is losing population. I'm seeing a strong correlation between states pursuing their Green Wet Dreams and population loss.
Oregon population decline is cause for concern, say economists
By Allison Frost, Oregon Public Broadcasting
Jan. 5, 2023
Why would population decline concern economists? They want to decarbonize...why not depopulationize? That's what the greeniacs really want.
Oregon has it easy. There get most of their energy from hydroelectric power what with the Columbia River being right there. They can close down any gas or coal plant, build a bunch of windmills and claim to be green but they are standing on the shoulders of people much greater than themselves who built the dams that could never be built today. It’s the dams that are already there that they will rely on. Hopefully they won’t decide to knock down their dams because that is a possibility.
Environmentalists are like a screaming baby who demands that you give him your phone or he won’t stop crying and will scream louder and louder until you just give it to him to shut him up. You get a child who is quiet until he demands your car keys or some toy. People will give up pretty much anything to shut up the environmentalists.
If you would like more information about what’s happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me. Please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list. OR has become a commie perv hellhole since all mail in voting started in 1995.
This is all pure bullshit. The “elites” know there is no “climate change” and that myth is what so much bullshit tyranny is based on.
Antifafa riots in the dark?