SAVE NY ENERGY

Category: Clean Power Projects

  • Green Power Gets Pricier After Years of Declines

    This link and article are from today’s WSJ and discuss the rising price of renewable generation. As long as renewables are used in conjunction with existing generation, their use will result in price decreases (or at least they used to).  However, once they get beyond a critical mass that requires storage installation and large modifications…

  • Wind Farms

    One of my brothers lives in Southwest Virginia and sent me the following article from the Roanoke Times. Another delay for wind farm in Botetourt County This reminds me of the large wind turbines on Route 17 near Binghamton that have been there for about a year and I have yet to see them spinning…

  • NY State’s Energy Policy almost the equivalent of self imposed embargo

    After 33 years of installing wind and solar, Germany is not even close to eliminating its reliance on fossil fuels.  It’s only a question of which country they import the fossil fuels from.  That used to be Russia.  Going forward, that will be Qatar.  They have realized that the policy proposed in 1990 is untenable…

  • Grid Stability with Nuclear

    The following link is an article about the Georgia nuclear plant that went online today, with another one due to go online in March 2024.  There were several cost overruns, as well as delays. What the article gets incredibly wrong is when it says that solar and wind are less expensive.  Viewed myopically, that is…