New York Can’t Buy its Way out of Blackouts

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The Post & Email by David Wojick 12/24/2020

"REALITY IS JUST SITTING THERE, WAITING"

New York City will soon be home to the world’s biggest utility-scale battery system, designed to back up its growing reliance on intermittent renewables. At 400 MWh this batch of batteries will be more than triple the 129 MWh world leader in Australia.

The City of New York’s director of sustainability (I am not making this title up), Mark Chambers, is ecstatic, bragging: “Expanding battery storage is a critical part of how we advance momentum to confront the climate emergency while meeting the energy needs of all New Yorkers. Today’s announcement demonstrates how we can deliver this need at significant scale.” (Emphasis added)

In reality the scale here is incredibly insignificant.

In the same nonsensical way, Tim Cawley, the president of Con Edison, New York’s power utility, gushes thus: “Utility scale battery storage will play a vital role in New York’s clean energy future, especially in New York City where it will help to maximize the benefit of the wind power being developed offshore.”

This puts the Con in Con Edison.

More: https://www.thepostemail.com/2020/12/24/new-york-cant-buy-its-way-out-of-blackouts/

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New York can’t buy its way out of blackouts
By David Wojick |December 24th, 2020|Energy|

New York City will soon be home to the world’s biggest utility-scale battery system, designed to back up its growing reliance on intermittent renewables. At 400 MWh this batch of batteries will be more than triple the 129 MWh world leader in Australia.

The City of New York’s director of sustainability (I am not making this title up), Mark Chambers, is ecstatic, bragging: “Expanding battery storage is a critical part of how we advance momentum to confront the climate emergency while meeting the energy needs of all New Yorkers. Today’s announcement demonstrates how we can deliver this need at significant scale.” (Emphasis added)

In reality the scale here is incredibly insignificant.

https://www.cfact.org/2020/12/24/new-york-cant-buy-its-way-out-of-blackouts/

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Take away the feds' money and this criminal enterprise will stop.

Nothing can replace oil and gas.

Nothing.

Some tidbits can supplement it, with the most steadfast means being nuclear.

Wind power is a dream