Sunday, October 27, 2019

US Electricity Costs Will Double


US Manufacturing companies are slow to return operations back to the US. Part of this may be fears that US electric power companies are abandoning Coal and not adding Hydro or Nuclear.

Our electric bills are quietly planned to double unnecessarily. Power companies are implementing expensive fixes to address the global warming hoax. They are ignoring consumer demands to hold down the cost of electricity. Power companies have no business installing solar and wind when Solar costs 13 cents per kwh and Wind costs 14 cents per kwh.  Residential customers are already subsidizing commercial and industrial. 

The average Retail customer cost per kwh for electricity is:
Residential is 13.00 cents per kwh.
Commercial is 10.62 cents per kwh
Industrial is 6.80 cents per kwh

Hydro costs 0.77 cents per kwh and coal costs 2.07 cents per kwh.

One of the United States’ largest utilities, Xcel Energy Inc., announced it will close its remaining coal-fired power plants in the Upper Midwest a decade ahead of schedule and add 3,000 megawatts of new solar capacity by 2030, E&E News reported

Xcel Energy is a major U.S. electric and natural gas company, providing energy to customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin.

Fifty coal-fired power plants have shut in the United States since President Donald Trump came to office two years ago, an environmental organization said Thursday. The Sierra Club counted 50 closures, along with 51 announcements of closure, since Trump was sworn into office in January 2017.- May 9, 2019

86 coal powered plants have a capacity of 107.1 GW, or 9.9% of total U.S. electric capacity,

And Now the Really Big Coal Plants Begin to Close
Old, small plants were the early retirees, but several of the biggest U.S. coal burners—and CO2 emitters—will be shuttered by year’s end, By Benjamin Storrow, 8/16/19,  E&E News.


Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader

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