All Solar, Et Al, In 12 Years?

[Elliott]

"Harry Reid’s home state dealt a lethal blow Tuesday to rooftop solar power — the latest skirmish of a nationwide green energy battle that has pitted the Senate Democratic leader against his favorite target, the Koch brothers.

The move by Nevada’s utility regulator, which voted to slash the economic incentives for homeowners to install solar panels, was most immediately a showdown between billionaires Warren Buffett, owner of the state’s largest power company, and Elon Musk, whose SolarCity is the nation’s largest installer of panels that create electricity from the sun. But it also served as a proxy fight in a national struggle about states’ green energy programs, in which free-market groups backed by industrialists Charles and David Koch have fought to roll back incentives that they argue distort the marketplace and force some customers to subsidize other people’s power choices.

The company, which has lodged a lawsuit against Sandoval to obtain records about his interactions with NV Energy, said its industry group The Alliance for Solar Choice planned to file a lawsuit challenging Tuesday's PUC action.

The Nevada utility commission's decision does not affect large-scale solar power plants that supply electricity to utilities, like the $1 billion Crescent Dunes solar project partly financed by President Barack Obama's stimulus program, and NV Energy is a major purchaser from them."

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/solar-blowback-hits-reids-home-state-217084

Let's see, $1,000,000,000 / 75,000 watts = $13,333 per watt. Eeek !!

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Crony capitalism at its finest. It pays to have friends in political office.

Of course all those who bought rooftop solar did it for the right reason: to save the planet.

 

[Elliott]

Q: Did the Energy Department give a loan to an energy company connected to Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law?
A: Yes. The loan was awarded to Tonopah Solar Energy for a project in Nevada. Ron Pelosi was then a board member with a subsidiary of Pacific Corporate Group, an investment partner in Tonopah’s parent company.


FULL QUESTION

This came from a typically unreliable source, any truth to it?

The Solar thing just got a little more interesting…….REALLY!

The Tonopah Solar company in Harry Reid’s Nevada is getting a $737 million loan from Obama’s DOE.

The project will produce a 110 megawatt power system and employ 45 permanent workers.

That’s costing us just $16 million per job.

One of the investment partners in this endeavor is Pacific Corporate Group (PCG).

The PCG executive director is Ron Pelosi who is the brother to Nancy’s husband.

Just move along folks…..nuthin goin on here.

FULL ANSWER

Shortly after the solar energy company Solyndra filed for bankruptcy — after receiving a $535 million loan from the Department of Energy — we received several emails from readers asking us to look into the claims made in the chain email above. It gets some of the basic facts correct.

• It’s true that Tonopah Solar Energy, a subsidiary of SolarReserve, received a $737 million loan from the government to build a new solar facility in Nevada.
• It’s also true that the project is expected to create 45 permanent jobs. However, many construction jobs also would be supported. Furthermore, there’s no indication at present that the loan won’t be repaid. So it’s misleading to claim it is costing taxpayers $16 million per job.
• And Ron Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law, had been the executive director with PCG Asset Management, a subsidiary of PCG, until April 2009. But he was only an “independent director” on the company’s board in September 2011 when the loan guarantee for Tonopah was finalized. As an independent director, Pelosi sat on the board of directors, but did not oversee day-to-day management of the company.

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/12/ron-pelosis-connection-to-tonopah-solar-energy/

This was a 2012 story. Of course Ron is gone from the project. I wonder where most of the money stuck to.

 

[Meandering]

New & Proposed Generation Plants in Nevada

That's a mighty long list of plants due to come on line next year.

Meanwhile;



Wow.

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[Randolph Kinney]

All of those new sources of energy coming online are with long term energy contracts that will now show up in the utility's rate base. That means anyone connected to the grid gets to pay more.

Also note, there is no real demand for additional energy; this is green energy demand mandated by law. It will now replace fossil fuel energy, a cheap source, with very expensive source.

Just like conserving water, less demand, causes a rate increase. For additional water? No, because the utility can't cover its cost.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

How green crony capitalism operates

Can't do it without the support of and involvement of politicians in office.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

* Important note: This list was changed in July 2015 to reflect the use of ERSSTv4 by CPC in the calculation of Sea Surface Temperatures (SST). Consequently the events (below) marked with an asterisk were shifted down one category.

El Niño and La Niña Years and Intensities



http://ggweather.com/enso/oni.htm

Line these El Nino / La Nina events up with the satellite global temperature graph below.

It is obvious that ENSO events controls the climate, not human CO2 emissions.

 

[Randolph Kinney]

The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever

New data shows that the “vanishing” of polar ice is not the result of runaway global warming

Homewood’s interest in the Arctic is partly because the “vanishing” of its polar ice (and the polar bears) has become such a poster-child for those trying to persuade us that we are threatened by runaway warming. But he chose that particular stretch of the Arctic because it is where ice is affected by warmer water brought in by cyclical shifts in a major Atlantic current – this last peaked at just the time 75 years ago when Arctic ice retreated even further than it has done recently. The ice-melt is not caused by rising global temperatures at all.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ear...data-is-the-biggest-science-scandal-ever.html

Now we know how increased CO2 emissions are changing the climate: It is man-made by changing the temperature data to fit the scenario.

Shifting ocean currents are driving warming and cooling trends.

 

[Meandering]

Kind of like the government measuring sea level rise from the seaside garbage dump land fill at the end of the granite peninsula. (Battery Park in NYC).

But this is interesting,

2,793 MW of green energy generated,
12.5 MW storage capacity,

2.780.5 MW created that can't be stored, and must be ??????????????? dissipated into the air if not used?????

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[Meandering]

Another reason why you should not trust government math.

Hillary Clinton: If Elected President, I’ll Shut Down 50,000 Public Schools
"I wouldn't keep any school open that wasn't doing a better than average job."

Uhm,

it's impossible for "all" to be "better than average" because what is average moves up with greater accomplishment.

So just say you're going to close the bottom performers, which would then additionally move "average" higher.

Oh screw it, just say anything that sounds good to sheeple.

Awe, here we go.........

Air pollution linked to children's low academic achievement
Date:
August 27, 2015
Source:
The University of Texas at El Paso
Summary:
A new study on children's health has found that fourth and fifth graders who are exposed to toxic air pollutants at home are more likely to have lower GPAs.

It's not really the schools fault, there are just too many stupid children, because their parents drive cars.

Now that's plausible, right?


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