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Areas resistant to renewable/solar installations
Princeton did a study that found that areas with geographic features such as lakes, waterfronts, and mountains are more resistant to renewable installations. Unfortunately for NY, that is most of the geography of the state. Notable in the statistics copied below is that of the people that cared enough to vote, 8% more were against…
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Texas: Poor energy planning
This is what poor energy planning leads to and NY State is headed down a similar path. Texas power grid operator pays Bitcoin miner over $30 million to curb energy usage https://www.techspot.com/news/100066-texas-power-grid-operator-pays-bitcoin-miner-over.html ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) has left Texas with an islanded utility system and few interconnections to other states so that they will…
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Clean Path Debate
Regarding yesterday’s Politico, below, discussing Clean Path’s request for additional funding because other projects were also requesting more, Clean Path was already an $11 billion project for 3,400 MW of intermittent solar and wind generation. See the following link: A giant clean-energy transmission line to New York City is now underway However, the article also states that…
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Wind-Farm issues that will not be easily fixed
This article was in the Wall Street Journal last Thursday, America’s Wind Farm Revolution is Broken I have highlighted certain captions in bold font, but the situation is not good and under the best of circumstances, this is going to result in long delays to get these projects operational. These are issues that will not…