Wind Power Off NY Has To Cost More

Few people are as concerned about the weather as commercial fishermen. For them, a day on the ocean is always a life or death situation, in as much as their work is amongst the most dangerous there is. And few people are as concerned about the environment as commercial fishermen, whose very livelihood depends on the health of the biosphere.

Helping keep track of the industry is the venerable and reliable publication, The National Fisherman. An article giving the 411 on wind power and the financing to enable it in the New York City area is here. 

In order for renewable wind power to exist at all in the area, consumers will need to pay between 54% and 27% more than projected when these projects were approved. If the terms aren't modified it seems unlikely that turbines will be spinning kilowatts into the Big Apple. It's a bait and switch, a promise that has to be broken and a normal feature of the renewable industry. 

The Josh Kaplowitz keeping an eye on the Empire/Beacon project for the American Clean Power Association was for 5 years at the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of the Solicitor as attorney-advisor to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s Offshore Renewable Energy Programs, the same bureaucracy tasked with regulating this effort.

According to their website, the American Clean Power Association:  is the leading voice of today’s multi-tech clean energy industry, representing 750 utility-scale solar, wind, energy storage, green hydrogen and transmission companies. ACP is committed to meeting America’s national security, economic and climate goals with fast-growing, low-cost, and reliable domestic power.

   

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One Member, Bison Energy Company, San Francisco, CA, has just completed two solar projects in Japan. Another, Grenergy of Birmingham, AL, boasts 11GW of projects world-wide. Imperial Star Solar is a member based in Cambodia. The ACPA  includes another 747 members dedicated to eliminating "dirty" energy and also making money. 

Update:  On 10/12/2023 the New York State Public Service Commission denied the petitions filed by a group of offshore wind developers and a state renewable energy trade association for modifications to existing contracts that would raise costs to consumers by billions of dollars.