Posted on 09/07/2014 2:53:08 AM PDT by bestintxas
According to the Energy Information Administration (EIA), residential electricity prices have risen by 3.2 percent during the first 6 months of this year compared to the first 6 months of last year—the highest year-over-year growth in 5 years. But, the real story is that New England’s residential electricity prices have risen 11.8 percent over that period—the highest increase anywhere in the nation. That is because New England is shuttering low-cost coal and nuclear plants and replacing them with new natural gas plants and mandated renewable energy sources. Worse, New England has done this against a backdrop of in-sufficient pipeline capacity to feed all the demands on natural gas for heating, cooking, and electricity generation in the region as we saw during the Polar Vortex last year.
The increase in electricity prices in New England and across the nation will only get worse as onerous regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will shutter more and more of the nation’s coal plants in favor of high cost renewable technologies and natural gas plants with insufficient pipeline infrastructure to reach consumers in times of high demand. Unless New England starts building pipelines posthaste, or EPA’s anti-coal policies and other anti-nuclear policies are reversed, the region may soon be in serious jeopardy of having adequate power.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Really stupid
Democrats in coal mine belts take heed.
so long as those people up there don’t start moving down mass like they have before and bring their socialist ignorant voting ways with them
Even after Odumbo told them that electricity costs would sky rocket because of his policies, they still bow down.
Maybe of interest to you
Does anyone have a breakdown of the problem on a state by state basis? I figure Mass. New York and Vermont might be in the worst shape, but I don’t know.
Where is your Obama now???
On the first tee. Geez, What a question.
They closed 2 coal plants in the county this year. Our electricity rates went up by 51% last month.
“Under my plan ... electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket ...”
We are told manufacturing will be returning to the US thanks to new technologies (robotics, 3D printing, etc). All of these technologies require electricity and huge amounts of it. If you were a nation determined to lead the world in high tech manufacturing government policy would facilitate and encourage the widespread availability of low cost electricity.
Our government policy is encouraging high cost electric power generation (solar & wind) while discouraging low cost power generation (coal, nuclear). Twenty years from now the nations dominating technologically enabled manufacturing will be those with low electricity costs and a well educated population. Not the USA.
CT leads the pack: http://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state.php
Obama did promise electricity prices would go up, which is part and parcel of his promise to fundamentally destroy America.
Goood! the chickens come home to rooste.
Democrats in coal mine belts take heed.
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This article paints a grim picture but from my sources in the industry it is going to be even grimmer. Find other sources of heat, you will need them. There will be a glut of large houses next year if what I am hearing comes to pass.
Or how about we end all immigration because we're overpopulated and haven't enough electricity to go around?
Does anyone have a breakdown of the problem on a state by state basis?
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The largest electric generator in our state says and has already raised our rates by 30%. Ky.
bring back the coal fired power plants - reduce costs
So is it really true that are some municipalities in the US (and HOA’s) where you can’t hang your clothes out to dry the old-fashioned way on a clothesline?
‘Cause I haven’t owned a tumble dryer in 13 years, since I first moved here to Europe. I have an indoor drying rack for when the weather sucks, but on a day like today - 72 degrees with a light breeze - I just hang ‘em out on the balcony.
It’s also how I know it’s the weekend....everyone’s clothes are hanging out and drying on the balconies.
You can certainly buy a tumble dryer here, but most folks eschew them for line drying. The general notion being why pay for something when you can do it for free?
This is why our local NH electric company is pushing to build a $1 billion power line from the NH/Quebec border going south known as the Northern Pass. Quebec makes more electricity from its hydro electric dams than it can use. CT and Mass need the juice. However they need a new right of way in northern NH to build the line. It will travel on existing ROWs the rest of the way south. The people up there do not want it because: it will ruin their VIEW.
They may end up burying a portion of it. Also, we do not need the juice here in our state because we have Seabrook nuclear power plant built in the 1980s.
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