The New York State Energy Research Development Authority really doesn’t want you to know how much you’ll have to pay for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s offshore-wind boondoggles.
Our recent editorial on this waste cited the Empire Center’s Ken Girardin, who’d found used the agency’s own public filings to deduce a cost to electric ratepayers statewide of some $6 billion for just the first wave of wind farms NYSERDA is subsidizing off the Long Island coast, vs. the agency’s claimed $1 billion.
That prompted NYSERDA to point out a mistaken assumption by Girardin: He had treated one bit of NYSERDA “info” as less deceptive than it turns out to be.
Basically, the agency used arcane accounting tricks to report a low value for the state’s guaranteed wind subsidies.
Alerted to the maneuver, Girardin now finds that the final price tag could climb even higher.
Offshore wind power is the most expensive alternative-energy source, and Cuomo has boosted these projects’ costs by requiring union labor.
To hide the bad news, NYSERDA has to play games. Maybe that’s why, as the Empire Center also reports, its officials have the highest average pay of any state authority.
Read more at NY Post
I like the RUTHLESS quality of energy imperatives. No matter how much you “shake, wiggle & dance,” sooner or later, PHYSICS always dictates the outcome. So in New York, we have short sighted, misinformed POLITICAL decisions to block critical gas pipeline infrastructure, closing a nuclear plant prematurely and promoting unreliable electricity sources (primarily wind). Now, it looks like a COLD winter is potentially settling in over New England. NOTHING better than PHYSICAL laws to straighten out policy makers as to both the inapplicability & error of their judgments. Widespread cold, dark luxury apartments later this winter season may provide the “magic elixir” for the average citizenry to start thinking about WHY they (really) have power shortages & gas curtailments that were avoidable & may prove to be quite the inconvenience. I’d suggest in that case we view that unfortunate outcome as a “teachable moment” and direct evidence that reliable & affordable energy is a privilege, not a birthright. I’m thinking a large slice of HUMBLE PIE might be a timely instructional lesson to our nation. The discussion on energy transition is in DRASTIC need of change. Out here in the energy sector, there is no “EASY BUTTON”…
Now this is the type of investigative reporting and editorials we need more of.
Out the Green Boondoggles.
And so you Eco-Freaks wanted to ban of shore drilling and now you panoramic view of the Ocean is spoiled by Wind Turbines well then you asked for it and you got it happy now?
It is very typical of liberals to lie about the cost of their projects. The light rail project in the Seattle area is a recent example. It was sold to voters at a price tag of $84 billion, and it is always obvious that it will cost a lot more than that.
The ultimate goals of the Eco-Freaks is to drive Farmers and Ranchers off the land turn vast areas into Wilderness Playgrounds for them and their wealthy supporters to go hiking,horseback riding and camping force us all into big cities and live in Bee Hive Apartment complexes and get all our food for other nations Earth First,Earth Liberation Front and the Sierra Club and the other Eco-Nazis/Watermelons
Winter is coming soon you’ll pay the price for being arrogant idiots by electing communists to run your city.