Starbucks thinks virtue signaling can “save the planet”

Will your Starbucks actually get electricity from wind turbines? Will transmission lines run directly from the turbines to each Starbucks store? If not, how will they separate wind-generated electrons from the renewable-fossil-hydro-nuclear mixture on the regional grid?

By |2018-12-02T22:36:08-05:00December 3rd, 2018|Comments Off on Starbucks thinks virtue signaling can “save the planet”
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CFACT Billboard — “Insane Electricity Prices Ahead!”

California's mistaken new energy law spells trouble for everyone. As business flees, the politicians in Sacramento are going to want to inflict the same burdens on the rest of us to "make things fair." This energy-wound is self inflicted. California should adopt a wiser course and others should avoid repeating their mistake.

By |2018-09-18T14:09:36-04:00September 18th, 2018|Comments Off on CFACT Billboard — “Insane Electricity Prices Ahead!”
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Utility leader: New England headed for an energy ‘tipping point’

"The New England electricity market will rapidly worsen, requiring further out-of-market actions to adequately compensate generators in order to preserve grid reliability... State subsidies will beget reliability subsidies, driving consumer costs ever higher and doing away with future market-based investments for new or existing power generation."

By |2018-09-06T21:03:08-04:00September 6th, 2018|Comments Off on Utility leader: New England headed for an energy ‘tipping point’
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Europe on the verge of ‘severe’ energy crisis

Europe’s pivot away from traditional power sources without a proper contingency plan may be putting the continent at risk of a severe energy crisis, warns an energy executive.

By |2018-05-17T09:55:46-04:00May 17th, 2018|Comments Off on Europe on the verge of ‘severe’ energy crisis
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Powering countries, empowering people

CFACT Senior Policy Analyst Paul Driessen cuts to the point -- that billions of people in Africa, india, and elsewhere are systematically being denied reliable access (or any access) to electricity by cold-hearted bureaucrats and elitist governments who have decided for these people that no electricity is better than fossil fuel electricity (or even hydro). Yet when people do gain access to affordable energy, their productivity can skyrocket.

By |2016-09-22T14:30:59-04:00September 22nd, 2016|Comments Off on Powering countries, empowering people
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