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This bill seems to make sense in light of what is happening with the rapid integration of “green energy”. We need to look hard at the coming changes that “possibly” could hold promise, yet there is not enough information available apparently to see how and if the implementation of these energy sources will truly work as desired. Is this a pipe dream? Nobody wants to admit that but the current failure of electric-cars in the cold winter temps is but one example of one failure to meet expectations. I shudder to think that some might perish in the cold due to a lack of foresight and honesty in what these changes are bringing. Lastly, I had to laugh when reading about Cummins wanting to put pressure on energy providers to “ramp up capacity so they can reduce their carbon footprint.” These are the same people who were fined $2 billion recently for cheating on emission standards for Ram trucks. Yup, they really care about the environment.
Indiana should be striving towards more reliable energy, not more unreliable energy. Kudos to Ledbetter for seeing the light.
I believe going green quickly harms low income citizens keeping cost high replacing assets. These energy companies also make money building these new plants. I have my doubts about climate change given the way these studies are conducted. Have you ever noticed they conclude with more study is needed? “Please send me grants.” I like this bill.
When I read the headline, I thought the only way to slow the move away from coal is to force people to use it. After I read the article, that’s exactly what lawmakers want utilities to do!
Coal is dead in the industrialized world. No multinational bank will loan money for a coal project. The only reason it’s expanding in India and China is from government intervention.
Most utilities, (including AES Indiana) have sensible plans for going green that don’t seem to endanger the stability of the grid.
As for going green hurting poor people, it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a house with a coal furnace. Additionally, in a free market, as the demand drops for fossil fuels, the price drops.
You can’t deny $/kw is way higher than a few years back. Why?
You say China and India are using more coal because of government intervention, but the US is using less coal because of market forces? That’s unbelievable it’s proven that through the EPA and other federal mechanisms, that coal is intentionally being priced upwards to minimize its use.
A totally bourgeois take. Sure, almost nobody uses coal furnaces, but most homes are powered by coal-fueled electricity., even if they’re heated by natural gas. Fundamentally, Teslas are coal-fueled cars–more of a status symbol than a genuine effort to lower carbon footprints.
Every attempt to replace coal with boutique green energy sources ends up costing more, especially for the lower-income people who can least afford these idealistic forays into alternative energy. Meanwhile, the cleanest, most reliable clean energy source–nuclear–is plunging in popularity due to scares that evoke the Cold War (particularly in Europe but also here), leaving a number of wealthy Western countries more dependent on fossil fuels (oil and natural gas mostly) than ever before. And it sure didn’t help the Germans last winter, when the US bombed the Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipelines to Russia.
At the very least Pepperidge Farm remembers the good old days, way back in 2019 when the United States was energy independent. Now, rather than using domestic sources (natural gas, coal, and oil are all abundant here), we’re simply purchasing high-polluting fossil fuels from friendly nations like Venezuela, a failed state that is just waiting to invade Guyana for no other reason to expand its own already vast oil reserves.
Most utilities do not have sensible plans for retiring coal and gas fired plants.
The push to green up our electric production has led to some terrible decisions.
MISO is sitting on 6 gigawatts of solar fields and there is no timeline for their approval.
We are consuming more electricity than we have in history and we are in danger of having rolling brownouts and blackouts in Indiana because on top of horrible production planning, the grid is not being managed well.
Should be an interesting next few years.