Super-Expensive Wind/Solar Agenda of Democrats Gave Northeast Has Highest Electricity Prices in US

1) their ruinous strategy of embracing socialist and communist candidates,

2) doubling down on un-American woke ideology,

3) shielding criminal illegal aliens, and

4) supporting dark-money NGOs that fuel paid insurrectionist riots, violence, etc., like the Los Angeles riots—isn't a comeback plan but just political suicide. 

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The party of leftist social justice warriors is cracking under the weight of its own failures.

Obama's woke culture is finally imploding, "green" energy fantasies are backfiring.

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Nowhere is this more evident than in the Democrat stronghold states of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, where the forced retirement of perfectly operating, affordable, reliable, STEADY, 24/7/365 fossil fuel power to be replaced by  unreliable solar and wind is driving up energy costs to the highest in the nation this summer and breaking the pocketbooks of working-class families they claim to champion. 

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Governments proclaimed: Go Wind and Solar, Go ENERGIEWENDE, go Net zero by 2050, etc., and provided oodles of subsidies, and rules and regulations, and mandates, and prohibitions to make it happen.
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Net-zero by 2050 to-reduce CO2 is a super-expensive suicide pact, to 1) increase command/control by governments, and 2) enable the moneyed elites to become more powerful and richer, at the expense of all others, by using the foghorn of the government-subsidized/controlled Corporate Media to spread scare-mongering slogans and brainwash people, already for at least 40 years.

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CO2, just 0.042% in the atmosphere, is a weak absorber of a small fraction of the absorbable, low-energy IR photons.
CO2 has near-zero influence on world surface temperatures.

CO2 is a life-giving molecule. Greater CO2 ppm in atmosphere is an absolutely essential ingredient for: 1) increased green flora, which increases fauna all over the world, and 2) increased crop yields to better feed 8 billion people.

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At About 30% Annual W/S Electricity on the Grid, Various Costs Increase Exponentially

The W/S subsidies uglify the countryside, kills birds and bats, whales and dolphins, fisheries, tourism, view-sheds, etc.

The weather-dependent, variable/intermittent W/S output, often too-little and often too-much, creates grid-disturbing difficulties that become increasingly more challenging and more costly/kWh to counteract, as proven by the UK and California for the past 5 years, and Germany for the past 10 years, and recently in Spain/Portugal.

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All have “achieved” near-zero, real- growth GDPs, the highest electricity prices/kWh in the EU, and stagnant real wages for almost all people, while further enriching the jet-setting elites who live in the poshest places.

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Their angry, over-taxed, over-regulated native populations are further burdened by the elites bringing in tens of millions of uninvited, unvetted, uneducated, inexperienced, ghetto-area, crime-prone, poor folks from all over, who are sucking from the multiple, government-program tits, while making minimal efforts to produce goods and services; a chaotic, culture-destroying burden the native populations never voted for.

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Energy policies should balance three key objectives: affordability, reliability, and environmental sustainability — often referred to as the "energy trilemma."

Yet Democrats rammed through climate policies that torched two objectives, affordability and reliability for the environment.

According to the latest EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook for July, the average summer wholesale power prices across the PJM, NYISO, and ISO-NE grids are the highest in the nation. 

These prices now far exceed those in Texas' ERCOT, the U.S. average, and even the traditionally high-cost West Coast markets.

The blame is squarely focused on the Democrats' initiative to decarbonize power grids. 

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The PJM grid, the operator of the largest U.S. power grid serving 65 million people across 13 states and D.C., has been transformed into an unstable mess:

• America's Largest Grid Operator Warns Of Summer Power Shortages

• "Maximum Generation Alert" Issued for Nation's Largest Power Grid

• "Maximum Generation Alert" Declared On America's Largest Power Grid

In Maryland:

• "Another Reason To Leave": Top Maryland Power Official Warns Of Reg...

We've warned over the last year about the power crisis unfolding across the Mid-Atlantic:

• Goldman Says Mid-Atlantic Power Prices "Finally Caught Up To AI Dat...

•  Maryland "Can't Import Itself Out Of Energy Crisis" Amid Urgent Nee...

Last month, Pennsylvania boasted about saving Maryland's power grid from near collapse:

• "You're Welcome": Pennsylvania Boasts About Saving 'Green' Maryland...

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The result of failed green policies and surging power demand is a crisis that's hitting working-poor households the hardest.

Democrats are now scrambling—especially in Maryland—to regain narrative control of mounting dissent among voters (read here) over skyrocketing electricity bills. 

The green agenda is backfiring, and the optics are brutal for crazed progressives. 

One alarming estimate suggests that nearly 20% of households in central Maryland are behind on their utility payments.

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Voters should demand accountability for failed green energy policies that undermine grid reliability.

It's as if the whole climate agenda appears to be sabotaging the nation's energy stability through unrealistic targets and premature fossil fuel phaseouts. 

Meanwhile, in the global superpower race, China is rapidly expanding coal-fired power generation to ensure base-load reliability. 

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Coal electricity less costly, available NOW, not pie in the sky, like expensive Fusion and Small Modular Nuclear

Assume mine-mouth coal plant in Wyoming; 1800 MW (three x 600 MW); turnkey-cost $10 b; life 50 y; CF 0.9; no subsidies.
Payments to bank, $5 b at 6% for 50 y; $316 m/y x 50 = $15.8 b
Payments to Owner, $5 b at 10% for 50 y; $504 m/y x 50 = $21.2 b
Lifetime production, base-loaded, 1800 x 8766 x 0.9 x 50 = 710,046,000 MWh
Ignored cost; O&M escalates at 4%; insurance escalates at 4%; periodic overhauls.
For lower electricity cost/kWh, borrow more money, say 70%
Nuclear has similar economics
Wyoming coal, at mine-mouth $15/US ton, 8600 Btu/lb, plant efficiency 40%, Btu/ton = 2000 x 8600 = 17.2 million
Lifetime coal use = 710,046,000,000 kWh/y x (3412 Btu/kWh/0.4)/17,200,000 Btu/US ton = 353 million US ton 
Lifetime coal cost = $5.3 billion
Electricity cost = (15.8 + 21.2 + 5.3) x 1,000,000,000/710,046,000,000 = 6 c/kWh

For perspective, China used 2204.62/2000 x 4300 = 4740 million US ton in 2024