…the scope of offshore wind projects moving forward with accepted bids has decreased by about two-thirds, while the price has just jumped by over 30%.
Tag: New York
Electric bikes start record number of fires in New York
They claimed 18 lives and caused 150 injuries, with fatalities increasing 200 per cent in 2023.
Developers Cancel Huge Offshore Wind Contract In Latest Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda
Equinor and British Petroleum (BP), the firms working in a joint venture to construct the enormous Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farm, canceled a contract with New York state to…
New Year’s Resolution – Methane Response
In the atmosphere where it counts methane is not nearly as potent.
New York City’s Climate Policies Could Make Life Even More ‘Unaffordable’ For the Middle Class
New York City is moving forward with several climate policies which are likely to make everyday life even more costly for the middle class in one of the country’s most…
Ellenbogen: New York State’s Energy Transition
Richard Ellenbogen recently gave an important presentation on New York State’s Energy Transition that details his concerns with the net -zero mandate of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). I…
The Green Energy Wall Gradually Coming Into Focus
The best thing to end the wind/solar craziness will be to have one or two jurisdictions fail spectacularly as a lesson to everyone else. I wouldn’t have wanted my own…
New York City Goes Pedal to the Metal on Electric Vehicles.
…all heavy-duty vehicles purchased after 2028 to be zero emissions
Keeping You Up to Date On New York’s Progress Toward Green Energy Utopia
You’re going to have to hold a new auction. And the prices that will be bid will be as high or higher than those just demanded by these developers.
The Solution to Extreme Weather Issues is not to Reduce GHG Emissions
Ryan Maue checked out the Central Park precipitation data and found that on September 23, 1882 the site measured the highest daily value of 8.28” and that this recent event…
“A Missed Opportunity”: Biden to Skip This Week’s New York UN Climate Summit
In the midst of widespread climate protests, Biden has decided to skip the UN summit and send John Kerry in his place.
New York Urgently Needs To Confront the Contradiction of Trying To Electrify Everything While Also Eliminating Fossil Fuels
dispatchable emissions-free resource
New York Senator Is Taking Legislative Action to Stop The “Transition” Until A Fossil Fuel Replacement Is Identified.
Today, world leaders have NO planned replacement for the supply chain of products that are made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil that did not exist two hundred…
Another Non-reassuring Report On New York’s Energy Future
Hey, these are just “suggestions.” Go ahead and spend twenty years and a few hundred billions of dollars trying to build it out. Maybe it will work, maybe it won’t.…
NY Climate Act Cap and Invest Plan Going Off the Rails
In New York and elsewhere climate justice considerations are making their way into legislation
New York’s Good Environmental Intentions Unsullied by Reality
A zero-risk standard sets a high hurdle for permitting a new facility or keeping an existing source in operation.
On To The Great Future Of Offshore Wind Power
The climate cultists on the Climate Action Council think that they can just order this up, and then it will happen.
New York’s Climate Act Scoping Plan Process Template
I also predict that if the ideologues continue control the implementation process then costs will sky rocket, that there will be a catastrophic blackout that causes death and destruction, and…
New York Zero Emission Vehicle Mandate
The State’s obsession with being a climate leader is pointless. Worse there is no recognition that the pursuit of zero emissions has unintended consequences and will likely cause more harm…
California And New York: Do Not Back Off Your World-Beating Green Energy Schemes!
Today the Manhattan Contrarian formally calls upon the states of California and New York: Whatever you do, do not back down from your crash program of green energy schemes!
New York Legislative Race to the Bottom
One last point. In another outstanding example of cluelessness, the underlying argument that the primary reason fuel prices have gone up is because the evil oil companies are making windfall…
Biden’s climate policies realized: New York’s ‘Home Energy Crisis’ – ‘More than a million households are 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an avg. of $1,427.71 in debt, & shut-offs are increasing’
More than 471,629 disconnection notices were sent out in April 2022 for residential customers across New York State, with Orange and Rockland counties leading the way, with 79 shutoffs that…
Can California Really Achieve 85% Carbon-Free Electricity By 2030?
So the message to Californians is, invest some hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer and ratepayer money over the next eight years in complete blind faith that our models…
My Testimony On New York’s “Scoping Plan” To Achieve Net Zero Carbon Emissions
I’m not fooling myself into thinking that this will have any immediate impact. I will say that among all the other speakers, not a one addressed or attempted to refute…
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