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By Jim Clarkson -- August 6, 2019 1 Comment“Demands to significantly increase the Company’s renewable procurement ignore this reality [of system instability] largely because Georgia Power, and not the Intervenors, is ultimately responsible for safely and reliably integrating these resources into and operating the system.”
– Georgia Power Company, June 24, 2019
Georgia Power didn’t need any new sources of generation and was, in fact, closing down still-useful plants to make room for the Plant Vogtle #3 and #4 (2,231 MWnuclear capacity). As such, the Company didn’t want nuisance solar. However, to appease the Georgia Public Service Commissioner (GPSC) commissioners, and to engage in greenwashing, the Company proposed in its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) to purchase just enough intermittent solar to be politically acceptable. They were wrong.
Solaring Up … and Up
In the face of opposition, the Company compromised in a proposed settlement to increase future solar purchases.…
Continue ReadingDOE Revisits Forced Electrification (Decarbonization) Rules re Non-condensing Furnaces, Water Heaters
By Mark Krebs -- August 1, 2019 9 Comments“From time to time a statute gets written with a really good intention but reality does not follow that intention. That’s why we’re looking at these rules and regulations from a common-sense approach, we’re looking to get the best result we can.”
– DOE Secretary Rick Perry, quoted in Politico, July 16, 2019.
“According to Consumer Reports, the highest-ranked was an electric heat pump water with an average price of $1,200 (twice that of the runner-up gas water heater) and an average annual operating cost of $240. Second place was an apparently ordinary gas water heater with an average price of $600 and an average annual operating cost of $245.” (below)
On July 11, the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) and request for comments on a petition by the natural gas industry (a.k.a.…
Continue ReadingEnergy & Environmental Newsletter: July 29, 2019
By John Droz, Jr. -- July 29, 2019 3 CommentsThe Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions (AWED) is an informal coalition of individuals and organizations interested in improving national, state, and local energy and environmental policies. Our premise is that technical matters like these should be addressed by using Real Science (please consult WiseEnergy.org for more information).
A key element of AWED’s efforts is public education. Towards that end, every three weeks we put together a newsletter to balance what is found in the mainstream media about energy and the environment. We appreciate MasterResource for their assistance in publishing this information.
Some of the more important articles in this issue are:
- Climate trillions frittered in the wind
- Study: The Social Cost of Carbon and Carbon Taxes
- Wind Farm Back-of-the-Envelope Economic Analysis
- The Confusions of the ‘Conservative’ Carbon Tax
- Inconvenient Energy Realities
- Infrasound noise guidelines: Antiquated and irrelevant for protecting populations
- Archive: Big Wind’s Dirty Little Secret — Radioactive Waste
- Study: The Impact of Wind Energy on Wildlife and the Environment
- Study: Green Killing Machines, the impact of renewable energy on wildlife and nature
- Fact-Check: Fearmongers Over Nevada’s Yucca Mountain
- Tucker Carlson TV segment: the Green New Deal is a Power Play
- 100% Renewable Is 100% Unachievable, Even If You’re An Optimist
- Sustainability and Global Warming Give Birth to Renewable Energy
- Prepare for green blackouts: That’s what’s in store for New York
- Balloon Tests to Simulate Turbine Height
- Battery Storage—An Infinitesimal Part of Electrical Power
- Excellent short video: Climate Apartheid?
Summer Air Conditioning: Stay Comfortable! (conservation calls enable bad policy)
By Robert Bradley Jr. -- July 23, 2019 No Comments“What is needed is universally affordable air conditioning, which means inexpensive power to run the units. The Green New Deal and, specifically, a carbon tax, whether during the summer cooling peak or the winter heating peak, is a death wish for humane, comfortable living.”
Red, white, and blue Americans should stay comfortable this summer and not heed calls for voluntary A/C conservation. Ditching self-interest is a step on the road to energy serfdom where “carbon guilt” is adjunct to mandatory policies. Citizen voters should be clear: affordable, plentiful free-market energy comes before sacrificial political energy.
Media Spin
The mainstream media, pushing climate alarmism doubly as an anti-Trump meme, is focused on heat waves and the irony of increased CO2 emissions from more air conditioning.
“Historic heat wave is double whammy for climate change,” reads The Hill.…
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