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Illinois Electricity: Subsidies, Mandates, Inflation

By -- January 7, 2025

“If Illinois wants an affordable and reliable grid, the answer is to end subsidies and mandates for all forms of generation. And to eliminate regulations that are taking the most affordable and reliable fuels out of the generation mix. Nothing else will work.”

Electricity prices are climbing in Illinois. As is the public’s concern about them. To address this, Governor JB Pritzker and governors from four other states recently asked the PJM Interconnection to do something about the escalating rates.

While the concern is widespread, there is little consensus over the cause of the higher prices. Some blame fossil fuels. Others the PJM capacity market. And others a lack of investment in battery storage. Most agree, though, that government intervention is needed to fix the problem.

However, a closer look shows that government intervention is the source of the problem.…

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Energy & Environmental Review: January 6, 2025

By -- January 6, 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. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.

Unreliables (General):
*** Wind & Solar: You Can’t Subsidize Them Enough
*** Here’s Proof That Environmentalism Doesn’t Motivate the ‘Green Energy’ Industry
*** Sweden Issues CHILLING Alert on Renewables

Wind Energy — Other:
Wind Turbines Set To Come Down, Threatening Hawaii Renewable Energy Goals
Lawsuit Against Arkwright Wind Turbines Adds Plaintiffs
Discarded wind energy increases by 91% in 2024

Solar Energy:
*** Appeals Court upholds NC County’s rejection of 2,300-acre solar facility

Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Waste could be the game-changer to Unlimited Electricity

Fossil Fuel Energy:
*** New NYS bill that will charge oil and gas firms $75B, but critics say customers will really foot the tab
America’s Big Natural-Gas Footprint is About to Get Even Bigger
German Greens advocate for coal

Miscellaneous Energy News:
*** New: Alex Epstein’s Energy AI
Trump’s Going Places With Energy, but Biden’s the Backseat Driver
$10 billion reasons New Mexico can’t afford to abandon oil and gas
U.S.

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HEATED/Atkin: Retrenchment, Burnout, Questioning

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- January 2, 2025

“Will HEATED end its bias and vehemence against critics of climate exaggeration and forced energy transformation? Will Emily Atkin consider the welfare of energy consumers and taxpayers? The harms of wind, solar, and batteries? The Big Money and Big Power agenda of the Climate Industrial Complex?”

The announcement came the week before Christmas. In “A Note on the Future: Taking a Short Break, and Changing Course,” Emily Atkin of HEATED (“A newsletter for people who are pissed off about the climate crisis”) announced:

In 2024, the fifth year of HEATED, we continued our mission of producing original, impactful, reader-powered journalism that holds polluters to account…. But our paid subscriber community did not grow in tandem with our free community this year. In fact, we have fewer paying subscribers now than we did at this time last year….

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Happy New Year from MasterResource

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 31, 2024
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Stop Out-the-Door Grants and Loans, DOE!

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 30, 2024
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MasterResource Turns 17

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 26, 2024
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Holiday Lighting: More the Better

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 25, 2024
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Two Different Holiday Wishes

By Robert Bradley Jr. -- December 24, 2024
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Energy & Environmental Review: December 23, 2024

By -- December 23, 2024
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Jigar Shah: End DOE’s Loans/Grants Now!

By David Bergeron -- December 20, 2024
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