WTF is wrong with congress and some of the states (particularly California) with regards to energy?
Seriously have they forgotten simple math? Did their solar calculator die?
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from COAL in 2016 is $78.
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from ONSHORE WIND in 2016 is $149.
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from OFFSHORE WIND in 2016 is $191.
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from THERMAL SOLAR in 2016 is $256.
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from PHOTO-VOLTAIC SOLAR in 2016 is $396.
States are now considering mandates to push (read that as force) utilities into various "green" energies. California just increased its mandate from 20% to 33%. Heaven help them because their economy will falter if their energy prices clime as expected.
Heaven help the rest of us if our states follow suit.
In my state we have some of the largest wind farms in the country but our governor is not mandating it. Apparently the wind farm operators plan to sell a bunch of our wind generated electricity to Illinois. So they will be screwed. But what is the point of harvesting the wind and the sun if it destroys the economy, eliminates jobs and lowers our standard of living?
Seriously have they forgotten simple math? Did their solar calculator die?
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from COAL in 2016 is $78.
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from ONSHORE WIND in 2016 is $149.
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from OFFSHORE WIND in 2016 is $191.
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from THERMAL SOLAR in 2016 is $256.
PROJECTED COST per KW of electricity from PHOTO-VOLTAIC SOLAR in 2016 is $396.
States are now considering mandates to push (read that as force) utilities into various "green" energies. California just increased its mandate from 20% to 33%. Heaven help them because their economy will falter if their energy prices clime as expected.
Heaven help the rest of us if our states follow suit.
Government subsidies for solar power are nearly 100 times greater than subsidies for natural gas and petroleum. Subsidies and support per unit of production, according to the Energy Information Administration, were 25 cents for natural gas compared to $24.34 for solar in 2008. How about wind, you say? That's $23.37 per unit. Without massive subsidies from your taxes, wind and solar power generation simply wouldn't happen.
. . . Great Britain has gone down this renewable road already. How did that work out? For every green job "created in the renewable-energy sector (mainly solar and wind), another 3.7 jobs are being lost in the real economy, says the independent study by Verso Economics," James Delingpole wrote in the UK Telegraph.
In my state we have some of the largest wind farms in the country but our governor is not mandating it. Apparently the wind farm operators plan to sell a bunch of our wind generated electricity to Illinois. So they will be screwed. But what is the point of harvesting the wind and the sun if it destroys the economy, eliminates jobs and lowers our standard of living?