Thursday - March 08, 2012

Oh for the love of …

Just in case you weren’t 110% certain that the Obama Regime not only has its head up its ass when it comes to a national energy policy, but is actively working against our better interests ...

Wind farms in the Pacific Northwest—built with government subsidies and maintained with tax credits for every megawatt produced—are now getting paid to shut down as the federal agency charged with managing the region’s electricity grid says there’s an oversupply of renewable power at certain times of the year.

The problem arose during the late spring and early summer last year. Rapid snow melt filled the Columbia River Basin. The water rushed through the 31 dams run by the Bonneville Power Administration, a federal agency based in Portland, Ore., allowing for peak hydropower generation. At the very same time, the wind howled, leading to maximum wind power production.

Demand could not keep up with supply, so BPA shut down the wind farms for nearly 200 hours over 38 days.

“It’s the one system in the world where in real time, moment to moment, you have to produce as much energy as is being consumed,” BPA spokesman Doug Johnson said of the renewable energy.

Now, Bonneville is offering to compensate wind companies for half their lost revenue. The bill could reach up to $50 million a year.

The extra payout means energy users will eventually have to pay more.

“We require taxpayers to subsidize the production of renewable energy, and now we want ratepayers to pay renewable energy companies when they lose money?” asked Todd Myers, director of the Center for the Environment of the Washington Policy Center and author of “Eco-Fads: How the Rise of Trendy Environmentalism is Harming the Environment.”

“That’s a ridiculous system that keeps piling more and more money into a system that’s unsustainable,” Myers said.

Green energy advocates also oppose BPA’s oversupply solution.

If even the greenies agree that this plan is asinine, it has to be stupid beyond imagination. Hey Obama, I don’t have oil beneath my house, so how about sending me a couple of million bucks for not drilling for what isn’t there? What the hell, it’s only somebody else’s money anyway!

Of course, the ultimate in Stoopid Policy was to build the windmills in the first place, without massive capacity increases to the power grid and a battery farm the size of Delaware. So now the power companies, which couldn’t afford to build the things in the first place and got huge bucks to do so, are being paid to not use them when they actually can work. Naturally the windmill geniuses blame the evil hydro-power folks, all of whom probably work for Halliburton and are out to Kill All The Fish™, for maliciously continuing to generate electricity when water is flowing in the rivers. The audacity of that defies belief! Why, with that kind of attitude, you’d expect the windmill folks to generate electricity with their Whack-a-Bird™ toys when the wind blows. The nerve!

Posted by Drew458     on 03/08/2012 at 12:39 PM   
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