NE Renewables Complain to FERC About Grid Auctions Favoring NatGas
The left always fights dirty. One of their favorite tactics is to demand a change in the rules of the game when they are losing. Free enterprise, allowing the best companies and best solutions to win based on economics, doesn’t work in the world of leftwing radicals. They seek to skew things–change the rules–tie a 50-pound weight on the back of the runner next to them in order to give themselves an advantage in a race. Which is exactly what’s happening in New England, where UNRELIABLE renewables (solar and wind) are complaining to FERC and FERC’s Chairman, Richard “Dick” Glick, a former wind lobbyist, that electricity auctions are awarded to natgas-fired power plants instead of so-called renewables because natgas is 100% reliable and renewables are not. Time to change the rules.
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MDN friend Mark Caskey, president and founder of Steel Nation, a company that builds steel buildings used for natural gas compressor and transmission stations, penned an op-ed for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review to respond to lies being published by the leftist group Earthworks. On March 8 a paid anti-fossil fuel “petrochemicals campaigner” published a column in the Tribune-Review regurgitating Big Green lies that fossil fuels are evil and that calls by PA shale drillers to increase domestic energy output is somehow bad. The answer for lefties is always the same–renewable nirvana will ride in to save the day. (See our post today about fossil energy providing 4X more of our energy than renewables from now until 2050 and beyond–according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.)
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