1.) Do not weep for me. At least I don't live in California.
2.) More solar, wind, and storage Munchkins increases unreliable supply, but does not lower cost per killowatt hour.
3.) The guv'nuh only wants to buy more of the gourmet Munchkins that cost too much.
When I saw them closing the coal, nuclear, and LNG power plants without additional generation and transmission capacity to make up for the loss, I took Solar City on their offer for solar leaseback to avoid some of the utility increases that would be coming my way.
For the last 2 Winters, natural gas customers have been getting hosed because supply can't meet demand. Utility companies wanted to increase supply, but the Global Climate Change dweebs wouldn't allow it. Also, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has been warning for years that Massachusetts was headed towards a natural gas squeeze during Winters.
Let our pain and suffering be a warning to the rest of the country. Build more generation capacity of all kinds. Build more transmission capacity. Increase pipeline capacity. Build more LNG terminals. Bring back coal and nuclear (Thorium maybe?).
The Guv'nah's demonstration to the unwashed masses only demonstrated that Dems don't understand free market economics. Liberals want Government to limit which Munchkin varieties are available to the public. Sure, she'll let me have more coconut Munchkins, but chocolate glazed Munchkins will be verboten.
The liberal "solutions" will be government subsidies, bankrupting utilities by making them eat costs, rationing, less affordable energy, and more expensive energy. Think California around 2000 when Enron was rigging the California electrity market by monopolizing the one transmission line that connected the southern California grid with the northern California grid. California regulators were bankrupting the utlity companies by not allowing them to pass on higher costs to consumers.
