For once, I”m not reading the article, so I can ask:
Is this guy really saying no one uses batteries to store the excess wind/solar power??? Jeez, I just have tiny bits of each, and I store the energy in batteries.
This should not be a surprise to anybody. Obummer was very (VERY) clear when he declared that the rise of electricity prices was going to be the price for the energy agenda that he and his fellow commies had envisioned for the world. Never mind that this cost is regressive as hell; that’s what government subsidies are for - yet another chain to fetter the poor voting bloc who are already in government yokes.
I’m just getting my electric bill down to $132 from a high of $300 per month. Different plans from SCE dropped it to $180/$200 and last month I disconnected an old computer that ran 24/7 and my bill went down to $132 Pretty happy.
That’s because politicians have created ridiculous laws mandating utilities produce a certain percentage of their power from “renewable” sources.
Given that the physics of wind and solar power make those targets unachievable, the utilities are required to ALLOCATE fossil fuel power to the “renewable” column.
The financial losses are actually much greater than recorded here, because they fail to include the cost of taxpayer subsidies to homeowners installing “renewable” energy sources.
Serious question for everyone, and I’m not trying to start a flame war. I’m genuinely curious:
If a homeowner decides to have solar panels installed on their home (a popular option for some Floridians), they often realize a significant cost savings in their utility bills due to local power generation vs. pulling from utility. Obviously utility use would go up in the evenings, as solar isn’t generating.
Wouldn’t this example be one reason for an increase in the cost of utilities if the utility companies have to increase rates in order to maintain their revenues? If everyone had some means of local power generation, the utility companies would have to provide less power over time except to those who aren’t on their own local power, but I think we all know that, like a bad law *coughObamaCarecough* being difficult to rescind, the power companies are loathe to lower rates lest their execs get less in their checks.
The Sun and Wind are unreliable?
Can't be.
The Climate Change models show they are much more reliable than fossil based fuels.
Its sunny and windy 24-7.
To deny it is to deny science.
bfl
I wonder why so few folks are considering geothermal power as a renewable energy source. Because underground temperatures are constant, geothermal energy should be more reliable than the sun or wind, so anyone who can do the math will be able to figure out how much geothermal is needed. And though we have no volcanoes in Kentucky, I hear that heating water by geothermal wells is feasible even here.
Solar & Wind: The two most expensive forms of electricity on the planet.
Duh!
Never take economic advice from a liberal.
Figures environuts and leftist never get anything correct.
The problem with this piece is that electricity prices have NOT been going up. In the cheap-gas era following the election of Ronald Reagan, the average residential KWh was 7.2 cents, or about 12.5 cents after adjusting for inflation.
Today, after getting as cheap as 9.2 cents in 2002, it’s still only 10.4 cents
The true price differential was masked by taxpayer subsidies.