From the December 22, 2025 edition of The Bottom Line.
Tag: New York
Our Final Objection To Our Local Utility’s Rate Increase
The problem for the supporters of the settlement, principally Con Edison and the Public Service Department Staff, was that they had admitted in the documentation that the JP contained “funding”…
New York At The Green Energy Wall — What Is The Exit Strategy?
Our legislators, innumerate to a person, had bought into the fantasy — peddled by lightweight academics like Mark Jacobson and Robert Howarth, and by grifting promoters like the American Wind…
Bad News Getting Worse For New York’s Struggling Grid With Looming Green Buildings Mandate
New York will soon force developers to build new buildings that can only use electricity for temperature control and appliances, which will further strain the state’s electric grid if it’s…
Energy Innovation Policy & Technology on “Big, Beautiful Bill”
I conclude that the claims of added energy costs due to the BBB are based on selected metrics and biased interpretations of energy systems. I have no doubts that the…
Can Anyone Save New York From Its Coming Self-Inflicted Climate and Energy Disaster?
New York State has officially ordained the destruction of its electricity system and its economy with a mad dash to energy utopia, as prescribed by a 2019 statute called the…
Nonprofit Funded by Chinese Gov’t-Linked Entities Backs Blue State’s ‘Unconstitutional’ Climate Law
A nonprofit organization bankrolled by numerous Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked entities advocated for a New York law that authorizes the state to charge energy companies billions for their roles in…
Trump Administration Lifts Stop-Work Order on $5 Billion New York Offshore Wind Project
For now, the lifting of the stop-work order represents a significant step toward the project’s completion and a continuation of New York’s attempt at an energy transition, though broader debates…
Trump Administration Targets State Climate Laws
The Constitution explicitly states that neither the Congress nor any state may pass an “ex post facto Law,” which imposes criminal liability for past actions that weren’t restricted at the…
Liability for Climate Change: An Inequitable Economic Disaster
What is already clear are the serious and senseless economic consequences that will follow if states are allowed to punish fossil fuel companies for their lawful past production.
New York Climate Act Reckoning is Inevitable
Inevitably people will figure out that there is a law in place that is causing much of the observed increase in energy costs. I also believe that the Hochul Administration…
Markers On the Road to The Green Energy Wall — Electric Trucks Edition
Does anybody really think that this battery charging issue is going to be solved within a couple of years? People have only been working on batteries that are suitable for…
Blue States Discover That “Green” Energy Storage is Playing with Fire—Literally
For years, environmentalists have insisted that wind and solar—propped up by giant lithium-ion batteries—are the only way forward. Now, as these battery facilities start going up in smoke (literally), even…
Three Strikes and You’re Out! New York Swings And Misses Again with Climate Litigation
So, to summarize: it turns out that the “deceivers” were never the energy companies to begin with. Rather, New York City attempted to deceive the legal system by taking information…
New York’s anti-fossil fuel shakedown could spread to other states
A decision from the Supreme Court on whether to hear the case is expected in early 2025. In the meantime, blue states – anticipating that the incoming Trump administration will…
New York On the March to Climate Utopia
So here we are, suspended up in the air, and nobody seems to realize that we will shortly crash to earth. Everybody involved is trying to milk the last dollars…
The Math Behind New York City’s Local Law 97 Does Not Add Up
Basically, whoever wrote this document is just pulling numbers out of thin air. It is a total fabrication. When you can easily find such flagrant errors in major parts of…
The DEFR Follies — Cost Of Hydrogen Storage
I understand that there are people moving forward on setting up some of this hydrogen infrastructure, funded with government subsidies. It’s almost impossible to imagine how much subsidies it would…
Offshore Trojan Horses
Over 25 years, New York ratepayers will be paying about $13 billion for alleged benefits of $6 billion.
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