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US to Move Away From ‘Parasites’ on the Grid – HotAir

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Holy smokes. This was some refreshing news breaking from our Energy Secretary Chris Wright during his appearance before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce a couple of days ago.





He was using some pretty bald language, too, concerning what were just six months ago sacred cows.

…During the last four years, we’ve spent tens of billions of dollars to do two things. To subsidise the installation of intermittent sources. Um, peak demand…where we are right now, Inauguration Night at 4 am, wind was 2 percent of electricity, solar was zero. Together between the two of them, two percent at peak demand. That’s when it mattered. If you’re not there at peak demand, you’re just a parasite on the grid, because you make the other sources turn up and down as you come and go…

The Green grifting subsidies that have sustained the climate cult fever dreams on the back of the American taxpayer are going the way of the dinosaur, God willing and the Senate grows a pair.

The biggest players in the industry were already crashing and burning because they couldn’t compete in an energy marketplace that was results-driven.

Sunnova, one of the largest solar installers in the country, declared bankruptcy this past Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands of residential customers wondering what they were going to do. 





“Profuse government grants, loans, and tax breaks supported Sunnova from the beginning. The public needs to know where the money went and why founder/CEO John Berger and a few others at the top made out like bandits, while just about everyone else bit the dust.”

Sunnova was all hat, no cattle. All sizzle, no steak. Long on DEI, short on profits. Long on government, short on consumer value.

And a lot of “Net Zero” for investors. And potentially voided contracts for more than 400,000 rooftop customers if tax credits go away under current legislation under debate. [1]

Yesterday, Sunnova International declared bankruptcy, or in their Enronish PR world, “Strategic Action to Facilitate Value-Maximizing Sale Process.”

The company never had a quarterly profit, existing on political fumes and gullible “green” customers.

The company had problems well before Donald Trump was elected, dealing with rising interest rates and the shifting of solar net-metering credit packages in states like California.

…Although the U.S. solar industry continues to grow, several factors are driving this downturn in demand: High interest rates and net metering rollbacks have reduced the financial benefits of going solar for homeowners, while shifting government policies are causing uncertainty for the future of clean energy incentives, putting heavy financial pressure on companies like Sunnova and SunPower that rely on customers taking out loans or leases to pay for the cost of going solar over time. 

High interest rates have negatively impacted the solar industry in recent years. On average, installing solar panels costs around $29,000, leading 39% of homeowners to rely on loans and financing to pay for their installations. While oil- and gas-free solar panel systems are far more cost-effective than utility-generated electricity in the long run, it’s an expensive upfront investment, and the average person may not have the funds to pay for it in cash. 

With this in mind, companies like Sunnova built their business models around the idea that most homeowners would finance their installations, allowing them to pay over time using loans, leases, or power purchase agreements (PPAs).





POTATUS tried to give them even more money to burn before he left office.

The fact that this industry still cannot even begin to stand on its own after twenty years of government handouts being the only thing keeping it alive tells you all you need to know.

…The reconciliation bill passed by the House of Representatives last month and now being considered in the Senate would abruptly end a tax-credit regime that’s supported households and solar installers for the past 20 years.

The bill would terminate the 30% tax credit available to households installing solar panels, batteries, inverters, and associated solar equipment at the end of 2025, essentially making those installations about one-third more expensive than they are today.





Yesterday. Lee Zeldin at the Environmental Protection Agency helped shovel another load of dirt on renewables by announcing that they would propose repealing two Biden-era rules.

Especially egregious are the Clean Power Plans. Those would have shut down existing coal and natural gas-fired power plants in favor of unreliable renewables, even before those were ready to replace them.

…The first Clean Power Plan was struck down by the Supreme Court in 2022. Many have voiced concerns that the last administration’s replacement for that rule is similarly overreaching and an attempt to shut down affordable and reliable electricity generation in the United States, raising prices for American families, and increasing the country’s reliance on foreign-made energy.

In West Virginia v. EPA, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the major questions doctrine barred EPA from misusing the Clean Air Act to manipulate Americans’ energy choices and shift the balance of the nation’s electrical fuel mix. The Biden Administration issued its own rule in 2024, which many critics say is just another attempt to achieve the unlawful fuel-shifting goals of the Clean Power Plan.

…As an alternative, EPA is proposing to repeal the most burdensome set of requirements issued for new and existing fossil fuel-fired steam generating units—specifically, the emission guidelines for existing power plants, and carbon capture and sequestration/storage-based requirements for new combustion turbines and modified coal plants. As part of this alternative proposal, EPA is taking comment on the efficiency-based requirements for new natural gas power plant requirements.





The Biden administration’s gang of underhanded thieves remains unmatched in unconstitutional end-runs.

And in probably the biggest blow to the cult, President Trump signed three Congressional Resolutions into law, which revoked the California vehicle mandate.

Trump signs bill blocking California gas car ban plan

Naturally Newsom spazzed.

President Trump signed legislation on Thursday blocking California’s rules to phase out the sales of gas-powered cars by 2035.

Why it matters: Trump is moving to roll back environmental initiatives that were a top Biden-era priority, and his action against California comes amid an escalating feud with Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) amid fiery LA protests of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

Driving the news: “It’s been a disaster for this country,” Trump said as he signed the measure.

  • “We officially rescue the U.S. auto industry from destruction by terminating the California electric vehicle mandate once and for all.”
  • Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Thursday the state and 10 others will sue the Trump administration for what they called his “illegal resolutions targeting” California’s clean vehicles program.
  • “Trump’s all-out assault on California continues — and this time he’s destroying our clean air and America’s global competitiveness in the process,” Newsom said in a statement. “We are suing to stop this latest illegal action by a President who is a wholly-owned subsidiary of big polluters.”





But Mark Morano from Climate Depot explained why this is such YUGE good news for everyone in the country, even if you don’t live in one of the eleven states that have signed on to the madness, along with California.

In the words of his predecessor, it is a BFD.

There needs to be concerted pressure on the Senate to close the Green New Deal/IRA subsidy window NOW.

These guys need to grow a pair and get this entire parasitic industry off the dole and off our backs.







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