Electric rates are going to be going up across the country and the world.
You can’t replace coal plants that were long ago paid for with new ‘Clean’ generation for free.
All of the new generation today also requires new transmission lines because it is located far from existing transmission lines.
Being Green is expensive and your betters are going to make you pay for it.
Jared Schutz Polis’ ( and his husband) goal of 100% renewable energy is to crush working Americans- to freeze in the dark.. with unreliable and expensive energy - that does not work 24-7..
To replace a 100MW coal plant with a Solar Plant that only outputs at 100MW from 10am to 4pm you need:
4 100MW Solar Plants
1800MW of electrical battery storage.
And, then hope it doesn’t rain and pray it doesn’t hail.