Susan Shelley: The False State Market of Renewable Sources – Long Beach Press Telegram

Do you want to see a magic trick? Watch this:

“In 40 of the last 48 days, clean energy exceeds the demand for the network consumed at the time during the day; Compared to only seven days throughout the past year. “

Did you see it? The reality disappeared before your eyes. Look again.

The statement appeared in a message about the news sent by the office of governor Gavin News last May. Thanks to some verbal weak hand, your eye sees what seems to be a big progress to the “ambitious goal of the state from 100% pure electricity to 2045” from seven days to 40 out of 48!

Here’s how the trick is done. It only happened “at one point during the day”.

To illustrate: On Thursday at 1:35 in the afternoon, data from the GRID operator in California (Caiso.com) show that renewable energy provides 57% of the electricity needed by the state. Are we more than half our goal of 100% “clean” electricity?

Only if you live in a place where it is never summer and is never night. Eight hours later, at 9:35 pm, renewable energy sources produce less than 19% of the needs of the state’s electricity. Natural gas, hydro and nuclear energy represent about 37%, 10%and 9%respectively. Another 15% of the electricity used in California are imported to transmission lines from other states. The batteries were good for 10%, but only until midnight when they expired.

So it doesn’t matter how many days the state reaches 100% “pure” electricity “at the time during the day”, because for the rest of the day and night we need natural gas, hydro, nuclear and imported electricity or otherwise the power supply will come out.

Believers will say things like “We have made great progress with renewable energy sources,” but it’s just a magical thinking. Let’s bring out the lights of the house and see reality.

The first sign that you have been lured is the false renewable energy market. California imposed mandates on utility services for the purchase of electricity generated by sunny, wind, geothermal, biomass and biogas. Abracadabra! Search is created.

Now, to create delivery, government subsidies and tax benefits are materialized by the money in your portfolio. This magic has created the system for generating the solar electrical electrical electrical system of Ivanpa five square miles from the Mojave Desert near the Nevada border.

After the financial breakdown in 2008, the Obama administration was looking for “ready -to -shovel” projects to bathe with federal incentives. Obviously someone looked at a drawer and found the abandoned plans for Ivanpa.

Olded from the moment it opened, the facility consisted of hundreds of thousands of giant mirrors, mounted in circles about three spiked towers garnished with capsules. The mirrors reflected the sun in the capsules, causing fluid inside and sending steam that rotates the turbines, generating electricity. To keep the liquid warm at night, Ivanpa burns natural gas.

In 2015, the solar factory was quoted by the California Air Resources Council to radiate greenhouse gases without permission.

Ivanpa was the creation of government forces. It was supported by your tax dollars – $ 1.6 billion for federal loan guarantees and $ 600 million in federal tax loans. And since California forced utility services to buy renewable sources, Pacific Gas & Electric and South California Edison signed expensive contracts for the power of Ivanpa and submitted the costs of its customers.

Now, however, like the unhappy birds that flew in the air over the mirrors, Ivanpa is toast.

PG & E recently announced that it has achieved a deal with the owners of Ivanpa to get out of their contract. Sce says there are similar discussions. The $ 1.6 billion federal loan has not yet been repaid, so we can assume that your tax dollars have disappeared in thin air.

But you also pay for subsidized energy projects as a utility client. Do you want to see another trick? The degree of electricity must be levitated!

The average housing tariffs accrued by San Diego Gas & Electric increased by 83% in 10 years from January 2014 to October 2024. Edison prices in southern California increased by 86%. PG & E percentages rose to the ear 118%. The increases are far above the degree of inflation, which is 34% for the same period.

These figures come from the Public Lawyer Office of the Commission for Utilities in California, which also reports that nearly 20% of customers of these three utilities, more than 2.2 million households, are lagging behind their electricity bills on average $ 821 S

Magical thinking is not free.

The use of state subsidies and government forces to create a false “market” leads to terrible results. In the real market, intelligent investors who compete for opportunities will gladly fund promising technology. If investors are not interested, this should be considered as a sign that the government should not spend your money on it.

But in California, the rejection of investors was taken as a sign of creating a “central order” for offshore wind energy. The Assembly Bill 1373 allows the State Agency to buy electricity from offshore wind projects and sell it for utility services, which can pass the price directly to customers.

Here is a trick you have seen before: a new study in the magazine renewable energy found that last year, in the end of winter and early spring, renewable energy sources have met 100% of the demand for electricity of the state for “to” to “to” 10 hours on 98 days.

What is the plan for the other hours and months? Many industrial -sized facilities are thought to be filled with tidy batteries.

On January 16, the battery storage facility in Moss Landing, near Monterey, had its third fire, bursting into flames, which burned four days under a cloud of toxic gases. Now there are high levels of heavy metals in the soil and water, threatening sensitive ecosystem and anxious inhabitants.

A similar facility is planned for San Juan Capitra, and governor Newsom has already signed a law (AB 205 in 2022) to cancel the local opposition.

The batteries only last four hours. The truth is that California relies on oil and gas for heat, electricity and transport.

Magic is an illusion, not an energy policy.

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