And when those hurricanes hit each year....no problem...the consumer will foot the bill....
I smell huge subsidies and mandates to buy high priced power. The stench makes me sick.
There is one thing I still don’t understand about the internet: I use google constantly and surf more than most people, especially since I don’t have TV in my home.
But I have NEVER bought anything advertised on the internet. Never. Where is the money being made? I don’t get it.
Google is a company suffering from mission blur. Going in so many directions at once will probably hurt them.
All this to save a few million cubic feet of natural gas from being burned.
In most cases, natural gas is the marginal fuel that utilites will be able to avoid when it is windy. Not that the utilites can avoid have the capacity installed; because they must for when it is not windy.
So since the generating structure has to be sized as if it is not windy, becuase at times it won’t be; and natural gas is the marginal fuel; we get to not burn some natural gas sometimes.
A hefty cost/view/danger penalty to not burn a fuel that is clean and more plentiful than ever.
I’m not going to knock it as long as it’s private corporations. Google’s already put over a hundred million into inexpensive photovoltaics, and they’re eating their own dogfood with solar on their properties.