Energy Archives - Page 20 of 26

All Aboard the Unicorn Express

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 Steve MacDonald

So, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez finally unveiled the plan she’s been working on since the 5th grade. Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders couldn’t get it done, so the Leftists are using their new ace-in-the-hole to ride it. Oh, and with some help from old uncle-knucklehead, Senator Ed Markey from Massachusetts. The Green New Deal is the … Read more

Seacoast Luddites Consider Blocking Powerline Project – Must Like it Cold and Dark

February 2, 2019 Steve MacDonald

When Granite State Enviro-wackos are not blocking paths to more affordable energy they are taxing the crap out of it. Making us pay more for it. Or, in the case of a powerline project in the seacoast, considering if and how best to block it.

Without Fossil Fuels Millions of Americans Could Freeze to Death

November 26, 2021January 31, 2019 Steve MacDonald

It’s weeks like this when you learn what ‘cold’ really means. The midwest has seen new record lows all across the region. The kind of cold that only fossil fuels can hold at bay. Assuming you’ve got them in adequate quantities. Which it appears they do not.

NH Democrats Propose New Carbon Tax on Gasoline, Heating Oil, Gas, Coal, and Wood

March 13, 2019January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire Democrats are proposing a tax that would hike the price you pay for gasoline, heating oil, propane, and electricity produced by coal, oil, gas, or wood. All of that. And, everything else. The bill calls for a fee based on the per-ton emission of carbon dioxide, starting at $20 per ton in 2020 … Read more

light-bulb electricity Eversource, power

Eversource Decides The State of NH Can’t Force It To Make You Pay More For Electricity

January 29, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Utilities, like governments, are monolithic edifices upon which waves of populist “outrage” love to crash. These sinister cabals exist to better themselves at our expense. They live to serve only themselves. And while that is always true of governments and perhaps Comcast, Eversource has done something to if not break then at least fissure the perception … Read more

Off-Shore Wind Boondoggles- NH Says Deal Me In

August 16, 2021January 24, 2019 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire has expressed an interest in “milking” the sacred cow of offshore wind. To that end Governor Sununu recently asked the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to establish an intergovernmental offshore renewable energy task force for New Hampshire. The move is the first step in a multiyear process whose goal is to screw taxpayers for … Read more

Greening-Energy Wind power bird choppers

Why Wind Will NEVER be the Answer to Anyone’s Power Needs

January 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

If you look at the complete manifold of global energy needs Wind power’s contribution is too small to measure. In 2014 (the last year for which there is data) the nearest whole number for wind’s contribution is zero percent. From the International Energy Agency’s 2016 Key Renewables Trends, we can see that wind provided 0.46 … Read more

New Hampshire Resident Thinks Raising Electric Rates is the Answer

August 7, 2022January 14, 2019 Steve MacDonald

In a recent Keene Sentinel letter to the editor, a resident suggests the new legislature stop giving any RGGI money back to ratepayers. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is a broad-based tax on electricity consumers. It can rise or fall without any elected official ever casting a vote. And it makes electricity more expensive.

It isn’t often that Government gets rid of a tax – Celebrate it!

January 4, 2019 Skip

Especially when it is on something we use everyday (reformatted, emphasis mine): Consumption tax axed With the new year came a little-noticed state tax repeal. It’s the electricity consumption tax, a charge on everyone’s electricity bill created back in 1978 after construction started on the Seabrook nuclear power plant…Lawmakers decided to make this tax go away … Read more

NH Will Defend the Re-distributive Biomass Bailout Bill from Legal Challenge

December 11, 2018 Steve MacDonald

In the last legisaltive session the New Hampshire (Republican Majority™) legislature overrode Governor Sununu’s veto of the Biomass bailout Bill. SB365 forces electricity providers like Eversource to pay above market rates for power from wood-burning plants. That increase is passed on to consumers.

US Oil Exports Increase 80% in 2018 – “Fuel” Job Growth and Economic Recovery

September 26, 2018September 8, 2018 Steve MacDonald

bakken-oil-rig-north-dakota-continental-resources — Bakken Oil Rig – North Dakota

Mr. Obama did a little dance the other day repeating the Trump Derangement Syndrome Narratives while taking credit for the Republican’s Economic recovery. Does that mean that Barry is laying claim to this economic boon?

U.S. crude oil exports saw an 80 percent increase in the first half of 2018 compared to the same period last year, according to the latest data and analysis issued Thursday by the Energy Information Administration.

That’s an increase of 787,000 barrels per day, to set a new monthly record in June of 2.2 million barrels on average per day.

Brookstone’s Failure Should Send a Message to the NH Legislature About Biomass Bailouts

September 22, 2019September 7, 2018 Steve MacDonald

At the end of August, I shared an email from a reader. They suggested that New Hampshire’s choice of tax policies was somehow tied to a series of business failures (some pending), one of which was Brookstone, a niche specialty items chain that has corporate offices in Merrimack (ack-ack), New Hampshire.

Brookstone is failing, yes. But is it New Hampshire’s fault?

Advocates For Affordable Energy In NH Need To Fight for It

November 30, 2023August 12, 2018 Steve MacDonald

An above-the-fold story on the front of the Sunday Union Leader starts with “New gas pipeline gains support.” The project is an underground pipeline to carry natural gas from Manchester to Stratham. Governor Sununu likes it. The Business and Industry Association likes it. Small and large business owners, as well as ratepayers, might like it.

Where Obama Pretended, Trump Team Supports Real Black ‘Power’

September 26, 2018July 16, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Paul Driessen, writing at Townhall, explains Carbon Colonialism.

Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) use manmade climate change alarmism to justify lending policies that reject funding for fossil fuel electricity generation, promote expensive and unreliable renewable sources, and thereby help keep impoverished nations poor.

But something is changing.

Electricity Supply Rate Costs in New Hampshire to Increase 19%

December 11, 2018June 24, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The State Public Utilities Commission has approved a request by Eversource for a 19.1% hike in energy supply charges, according to the Union Leader.

The Public Utilities Commission approved the supply charge to go up from the current 7.903 cents per kilowatt hour to 9.412 cents.

This is a direct pass-through for the price of generated power with no profit going to the utility, Eversource officials said Friday.

And who can we think of that has been at the forefront of ramming expensive uncompetitive energy down our throats?

Gov. Sununu Vetoes “Energy” Bills That Would Drive Up Electric Rates

September 26, 2018June 20, 2018 Steve MacDonald

Last week we shared a rumor that Governor Chris Sununu was prepared to veto SB 365 and SB 466. Both pieces of legislation were bipartisan sops to green energy that would drive up our already unreasonably high electric rates.

That rumor is now a fact.

In his veto statement on Tuesday, Sununu said the two bills would cost Granite State ratepayers approximately $100 million over the next three years in higher electricity costs, placing a strain on the elderly, those on fixed incomes and businesses.

Data Point – Remember that Paris Accord that was never a treaty or an agreement?

September 26, 2018June 17, 2018 Skip

Trump rightfully tossed it onto the ash heap of Obama’s “Arc of History” – it rightfully belongs there because it had no worth. Obama, like many other actions he took during his Presidency, only wanted to be seen as doing something rather than actually doing something and the Paris Accord belongs in it. What worth is there when only a President signs an “agreement”? Nothing – the next President can do exactly what Trump did. Obama was lazy – relying on Executive Orders and bureaucratic rulemaking which meant it could be done away with a flourish of a pen.

Sununu May Veto Net Metering Expansion and Fuel Diversity Bill

September 26, 2018June 14, 2018 Steve MacDonald

veto There’s a rumor goin’ round that Gov Sununu is planning to veto two pieces of legislation. The first, SB446, would drive up electric rates by forcing companies like EverSource to buy more green energy at retail rates (instead of wholesale) for qualified “green energy” from anyone who generates it in the State.

The second, SB365, would also drive up rates by mandating that power companies purchase MORE Biomass “green” energy.

Environmental virtue-signaling costs you more. It costs businesses more. It costs jobs, growth, you get the picture.

Could EverSource State Supreme Court Victory Mean Lower Electric Rates in NH?

September 26, 2018May 23, 2018 Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire has a resource problem. We’ve too many ax-grinders protesting energy infrastructure projects but you can’t create electricity with those. Not legally. You need something else. Several somethings. But each and every effort to improve energy infrastructure in the Granite State is protested, blocked, or dragged out in court until the developers give up.

If we don’t replace or update aging infrastructure, many of which the same ax-grinders are working to shutter, we’ll be reduced to wood and solar. By that I mean a world lit only by fire.

Republican Legisalture Gives NH Gov. Another Opportunity to Redistribute Wealth

September 26, 2018May 20, 2018 Steve MacDonald

The NH House and Senate have delivered three ‘energy bills’ to Governor Sununu that favor so-called green generation that drives up electric rates. One (SB446) expands net metering which means more pricey power from a wider range of sources. The second (SB365) prop up wood-burning plants. The third (SB577) subsidizes the Berlin Bio-Mass plant. All three divert money via higher rates to other people’s pockets.

At least one of them claims to save jobs, but as armchair economists know this doesn’t happen in a vacuum. The state through legislative force is taking money from the marketplace (job creators, consumers, and even municipalities) to prop up their mandates. Money that would otherwise find more productive uses.