Share 'COST SHIFTING IS THE NAME OF THE GAME REGARDING WIND AND SOLAR'

Regarding wind and solar, cost shifting is rarely mentioned, identified or quantified. Those costs, as c/kWh, could be quantified, but it is politically expedient, using various, often far-fetched reasons, to charge them to:   - Directly to ratepayers, via electric rate schedules, and/or added taxes, fees and surcharges on electric bills - Directly to taxpayers, such as carbon taxes, user fees an…