If Biden Can Support Keeping Nuclear Power Operating, Can Cooper?
Gov. Roy Cooper’s “Clean Energy Plan” includes what Donald van der Vaart called “a straightforward, categorical rejection of nuclear power.” It reads: Going forward, new generating resources should be...
View Article“What was the issue with the wind?”“It didn’t blow.”
“Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?” “To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time.” “The dog did nothing in the night-time.” “That was the curious incident,”...
View ArticleCalifornia begs feds to pollute more in electricity provision. Wonder why?
ZeroHedge noticed something: A stunning new revelation in the state’s top grid operator, California Independent System Operator, filing to US Department of Energy (DoE), titled “Request for Emergency...
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Energy Crossroads, Part 1: Cooper’s Plan Is Unnecessary and Fraught with...
Cooper’s “Clean Energy Plan” has a very definite preference for extremely expensive, intermittent, and unreliable electricity resources, to the exclusion of viable, dependable resources A report for...
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Energy Crossroads, Part 2: Reliable, Cost-Effective Alternatives to Cooper’s...
By favoring wind and solar generation with battery storage to the exclusion of viable, dependable sources, Gov. Cooper’s “Clean Energy Plan” would be extremely expensive, costing consumers an average...
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A New Law Means Higher Electricity Costs Are Coming, But Does It Stop Even...
Signed by Gov. Cooper, HB 951 puts his policy goal of 70% reduction of CO2 emissions into law, allows multiyear rate plans for utilities, and lets small solar facilities amend and extend their...
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How Much Damage to Our Coastal Communities and Ecology For a Biden/Cooper...
In 2020, citing risks to the state’s coastal economy and ecology, Gov. Cooper got Pres. Trump to add North Carolina to his offshore energy leasing moratorium, finding out later it meant not only no...
View ArticleWind Energy Falls Flat Again
Andrew Stuttaford of National Review Online highlights the latest evidence that wind energy fails to meet its advocates’ promises. One of mankind’s great achievements has been the way that, across an...
View ArticleCooper Tries to Change the Entire North Carolina Economy with an Order
On Jan. 7, Gov. Cooper issued an executive order demanding that everyone — from government officials to businesses to people in general — “take significant action to achieve” his goals to “decarbonize...
View ArticleCooper Tries to Order North Carolinians to Change How They Go Places
Gov. Cooper ordered 1.25 million electric vehicles (EVs) to be registered and for EVs to account for half of all sales in North Carolina by 2030Cooper directed state agencies to figure out how to...
View ArticleNew Study: Cooper’s Offshore Wind Order Could Cost up to 67K Jobs
In 2021 Gov. Cooper ordered the state to develop 2.8 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind energy resources by 2030 and a whopping 8 GW by 2040Though Cooper stated his order would create jobs, a new study...
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Electricity Prices Would Skyrocket Under Cooper’s Offshore Wind Goals
Gov. Cooper’s desire for building 8 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind in North Carolina would have severe impacts on our electricity billsThe cost of building 8 GW of offshore wind capacity in North...
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Visualizing the Costs and Impacts of Offshore Wind Facilities
Below is the presentation I gave the North Carolina Energy Policy Council on May 18, 2022. It visualizes the executive summary of my report, “Big Blow: Offshore Wind Power’s Devastating Costs and...
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Energy Poverty in North Carolina Would Be Even Worse Under Cooper’s Offshore...
Energy poverty is already a problem in North CarolinaThe poorest families expend over 20% of their household income just for electricityGov. Cooper’s desire for building 8 gigawatts of offshore wind in...
View ArticleHow Gov. Roy Cooper’s Plan for Offshore Wind Turbines Could Destroy North...
Wind turbines have been highlighted as the future of green energy by Gov. Roy Cooper, but could these monolith windmills destroy North Carolina’s coasts? Have you been to the North Carolina beaches...
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Bad State Energy Policies Can’t Save the World, But They Can Harm North...
One of Gov. Cooper’s reasons for seeking to build 8 GW of offshore wind near our beaches is to fight climate change by reducing North Carolina’s energy emissionsLet alone making a marginal change, even...
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Bad State Energy Policies Can’t Save the World, But They Can Harm North...
North Carolina has been cutting CO2 emissions this whole century without costly offshore wind energy being forced on electricity consumersMeanwhile, China has added 38.4 GW of new coal-fired...
View ArticleDutch Farmers Protesting Damaging Climate Change Policies
Tractors across the Netherlands have been mobilized, as Dutch farmers take to the streets, the airports and the highways to protest against a nitrogen pollution policy that will destroy their...
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Offshore Wind Development Threatens Marine Wildlife, Including Endangered...
There has been little examination of the extent of the impacts of “environmentally friendly” offshore wind development on affected marine ecologies, habitats, fisheries, and wildlifeA few studies...
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Offshore Wind Facilities Would Wreck N.C.’s Coastal Fishing Industry and...
Fishing communities in every coastal state have tried to alert the Biden administration to offshore wind energy’s threat to their industry and marine habitats, biodiversity, and oceanographyThe oceanic...
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