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Energy & Environmental Review: October 13, 2025

By -- October 13, 2025

This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.

Greed Energy Economics:
Why Mid-Atlantic electricity prices are rising so fast

Unreliables (General):
*** Epstein: The “Levelized Cost of Energy” scam
*** Big Tech’s ‘Misleading’ Green Energy Claims May Plunge Nation into Blackouts, AGs Warn
*** The Pros and Cons of Utility Scale Battery Storage
Wind, Solar, Trade, Sanctions, H-1B

Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** Revolution Wind Is Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Japan’s Green Energy Failures Serve as a Warning to the US: Don’t Fall for the Climate Agenda
Strange We Haven’t Heard About These Offshore Wind Farm Accidents Before

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Feds deaf to eagle-kill warning

Solar Energy:
Taxpayer-Backed Solar Facility in Mojave Desert Will Shut Down Next Year
Obama-Era Mojave Desert Solar Plant Once Hailed As A Marvel Will Close As a Glowing Relic

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** Lomborg: Green hype vs reality in China
*** How our “knowledge system” ignores the benefits of fossil fuels
*** How our “knowledge system” catastrophizes the side-effects of fossil fuels

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
Nearly one-third of EV charging attempts fail, report finds

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** China Inc.

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Utility-scale Solar: The Grim News Begins (Blue Ridge “wind-down’)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 9, 2025

“… this was one of the hottest and most promising job sectors in the country at the end of 2024. Now, clean energy job growth is at serious risk – and with it, our overall economy.” (-Bob Keefe, below)

Solar construction firm Blue Ridge Power issues mass worker layoff in North Carolina,” read the article in pv magazine. “The utility-scale solar engineering, procurement and construction firm filed a WARN act with the state, cutting over 500 jobs.”

Much of the rooftop solar industry is in liquidation mode, and now the central station “utility scale” solar industry is in trouble. Expect more of the same in the next months as solar subsidies and local opposition grows (the environmental grassroots). The delayed end of the Investment Tax Credit (30 percent credit) and the Production Tax Credit (2.8 cents/kWh) will cause a rush to the exits before the credits expire at the end of 2027 (with credits at risk for projects not started by July 4, 2026).…

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Federal EV Credit Out, Leaving Blue State Subsidies

By Kennedy Maize -- October 8, 2025

“A few states are bucking the national trend to prop up, temporarily, EV production. Domestic output is falling, which leaves foreign EV makers. The states do not have the federal “buy American” limit that applies to the batteries and internals of qualified EVs, however, which means that Japan’s Toyota bZ4x and Belgium’s Volvo’s EX30 could be the subsidized winners in an overall declining market.”

Biden administration $7,500 tax subsidy for purchasing electric vehicles, which helped propel a boom in battery electric vehicles (EVs), expired effective October 1st pursuant to the Big Beautiful Bill. Trump has long professed a distaste for this automotive technology, except for his EV photo-op in July when he turned the White House south lawn into a new car lot for Tesla cars to promote Elon and DOGE.…

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Solar, Wind ESG/ETC Closures Accelerate

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 7, 2025
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Net Zero Banking Alliance Terminated

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 6, 2025
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Thatcher & UK Politics: Up from Alarmism

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 3, 2025
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NRDC in Climate Denial (forced smiles at ‘Climate Week’)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 2, 2025
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Finance vs. “Climate Finance” (Lisa Sachs’s Problem)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- October 1, 2025
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When the NYT Fairly Reported on Global Warming (December 13, 1989)

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- September 30, 2025
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Energy & Environmental Review: September 29, 2025

By -- September 29, 2025
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