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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