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The conclusion talks about trade-offs and consequences but does not acknowledge that there may not be an “affordable, reliable, competitive path to net zero” using VRE.   Given the vulnerability risk, I remain convinced...

he reason is that the intermittency of wind and solar generators means that they require full back-up from some other source. But the back-up source will by hypothesis be woefully underused and idle most of the time so long...

If the Comptroller or others in state government wonder why the Climate Action Council never did a financial analysis of the Climate Act that they forced upon the state, with the assistance of unknowing legislators, it is...

The question is whether those people can be awakened before the blackouts hit.

So what will be the event that causes the project to crater?

...If demand on the grid grows at a rate greater than the buildout of new generation and transmission, reliability deficiencies could arise…

Given the entrenched crony capitalists and special interests supporting wind and solar any shift in direction, even if necessary to protect health and safety, will be a tremendous lift.

My impression of the speakers at this meeting is that they were desperately trying to make the point that the transmission challenges for the Climate Act mandates and schedule were impossible goals without actually saying...

This situation is a major blow to the offshore wind industry and to New York's renewable energy aspirations. It also highlights the challenges faced by large-scale renewable energy projects in the United States, including...

...to date, relative to this project there exists no environmental impact statement, no feasibility study, no prototype, and no demonstration project to show how this can be done, let alone any detailed cost analysis to show...

 At some point, New York State is going to have to confront the fact that the naïve implementation plan based on rhetoric and not facts must be changed.  Hopefully, the confrontation will occur before there is a catastrophic...

The entire Climate Act legislation and narrative is characterized by black and white cartoon descriptions. 

New Yorkers will in short order face higher fuel costs, higher property taxes, higher compliance costs and higher electricity rates, interspersed with news about businesses either leaving or cancelling investments because...

The development of Micron within the Climate Act framework will be a good test of pragmatic environmentalism. 

it is completely clear that the people running New York’s supposed energy transition do not have the slightest hint of competence.