So ridiculous: “But while closing coal plants early could save money, it would result in capacity shortfalls. Pacificorp sees addressing that challenge as a next step in the process and industry analysts have a number of ideas on how to do so, such as securitization.” And of course, closing coal plants doesn’t save money. Existing coal is always cheaper than any other new generation.
Apparently, it’s only okay to say nice things about needlessly expensive and hopelessly unreliable generation sources like wind and solar.
Source: UtilityDive.com
Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) on a utility scale is physically, financially and politically impossible. CCS is just another way of saying, “no coal.” Federal money spent on CCS is a fraud on taxpayers.
Source: UtilityDive.com
Fourteen power plants in Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia will have to convert to other fuel sources, introduce carbon capture technology (which doesn’t exist at utility scale) or close before the end of 2029 — even though Canadian PM Trudeau admitted that Canada’s CO2 emissions are trivial.
Source: SaultOnline.com Web
“A federal judge in Great Falls Thursday heard arguments over whether the Trump administration lawfully lifted a ban on coal leasing federal lands. The Department of the Interior lifted the Obama-era moratorium on federal coal leasing in early 2017, fulfilling Trump’s campaign promise to end the so-called war on coal.”
The 2017 order by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke that lifted the Obama-era moratorium on federal coal leasing.
Source: Montana Public Radio
“According to the most recent results from EIA’s Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), about one in five households reported reducing or forgoing necessities such as food and medicine to pay an energy bill, and 14% reported receiving a disconnection notice for energy service. Households may also use less energy than they would prefer; 11% of households surveyed reported keeping their home at an unhealthy or unsafe temperature.” The problem will be getting worse. One reason why we formed BURN MORE COAL.
Source: Townhall.com Web
Each of Xcel’s 10 Colorado coal plants generates less expensive electricity than any of its six Colorado gas plants. Despite the glut of natural gas, fuel costs are generally lower at the coal plants. You can ignore the green line supposedly showing that wind is cheaper than all since subsidized and unreliable wind needs to be backed up by the coal and gas plants. Amazingly, Xcel has announced it plans to shutter its coal plants! The chart below is from an article written by Ron Lehr, former chairman of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission.
Al Gore says he endorses the Green New Deal. When asked why, he responded: “I don’t know the details.”
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