PA Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Wrong Approach to Electric Grid Reliability

Let's face it: Josh Shapiro has been a major disappointment as Governor of Pennsylvania. He promised the moon to voters--that he would be both pro-gas and anti-gas at the same time. Some believed him, but we didn't. Each week, new information comes along that reveals Shapiro's true nature as a radical leftist Democrat. Shapiro said during the campaign he didn't like the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) carbon tax that forces coal- and gas-fired power plants to close (see PA’s Shapiro Outright Lies About Position on RGGI Carbon Tax). In his very first budget, Shapiro included $600 million from RGGI carbon tax sales (see Coming Soon to PA – Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Energy Tax, aka RGGI). How's that for a flip-flop? Now we learn that Shapiro has been writing love letters to the PJM grid operator, lecturing the grid to get more unreliable renewables going fast.

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