New York’s state legislature has just directed the state’s public power provider to build renewable energy projects. The law instructing the New York Power Authority includes language about “environmental justice” and labor that socialists would love—in fact, socialists do love it. The Democratic Socialists of America lobbied for the law and the group is gearing…
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Something Is “Dreadfully Wrong” with the Electricity Grid
“The near failure of the Texas power grid, coming just 4 minutes and 37 seconds from a complete collapse on February 14, 2021, was the first alarm bell that something was dreadfully wrong with US power grids,” writes Ed Ireland on Master Resource. Another alarm bell has rung in the form of a new report…
Tuesday Links
- Whew! Grid reliability is “job number one,” says acting chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Transmission expansion and environmental justice are next.)
- Meet the “foot-soldiers of leftist orthodoxy enforcement.” You’ll be surprised at who they are.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has certified the first small modular reactor (SMR) design, raising hopes for reasonably-priced nuclear power.
- It’s called thermal storage, but it’s just ice, as in ice boxes. Read Canary Media’s enthusiastic endorsement as a way to save energy and money in air conditioning.
- World Trade Organization wants “a global carbon pricing scheme. . . to mitigate concerns about competition.” (Is that price-fixing?)
No. The Climate Act (“IRA”) Does Not Invalidate the Supreme Court Decision on West Virginia vs. EPA
“Sponsors of the Democrats’ massive, inflation-enhancing, anti-growth, tax-and-spending bill, deceptively titled the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ (IRA), are trying to fabricate legislative history,” writes Marlo Lewis in RealClearEnergy. “According to them, certain IRA provisions were crafted to counteract the Supreme Court’s landmark deregulatory ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 597 U.S. (2022). The cleverly inserted…
Germany to Ramp Up Coal Production
From Tsvetana Paraskov of OilPrice.com. “Germany will rely more on electricity generation from coal in order to conserve gas and fill its gas storage by winter, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Sunday, outlining measures to save gas after Russia last week reduced supply to some of its biggest customers in Europe. “As a first…
Plea: Don’t Force the Post Office into an Electric-Vehicle Boondoggle
“The Postal Service should not be a test dummy for the administration’s speculative goals and it is an insult to taxpayers to treat it this way.” So writes Guy Caruso on RealClearEnergy. Here’s what’s happening: The Biden administration is trying to persuade the Postal Service (USPS) to invest in more electric vehicles. In March the…