https://energytransition.org/2017/02/wyoming-bill-would-all-but-outlaw-clean-energy-by-preventing-utilities-from-using-it/ The Global Energiewende Thu, 16 Feb 2017 18:27:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 https://energytransition.org/2017/02/wyoming-bill-would-all-but-outlaw-clean-energy-by-preventing-utilities-from-using-it/#comment-5186 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:51:01 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=14408#comment-5186 Intensly entertaining. Having looked at the most recent Lazard’s data on cost of energy – what the Re-pube-icans are saying is that they want Wyoming residents to pay more for their electricity – because using coal or nat gas (rather than wind) means they will pay more because new build wind is cheaper than new build gas or coal (not of course that anybody in their right mind is going to build coal stations….. oh hang on a sec…)

]]> https://energytransition.org/2017/02/wyoming-bill-would-all-but-outlaw-clean-energy-by-preventing-utilities-from-using-it/#comment-5175 Mon, 06 Feb 2017 09:10:17 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=14408#comment-5175 It nicely illustrates that all this free-market talk by Republicans is just a thin layer of paint over their true intentions: defending vested interests.

]]> https://energytransition.org/2017/02/wyoming-bill-would-all-but-outlaw-clean-energy-by-preventing-utilities-from-using-it/#comment-5174 Sun, 05 Feb 2017 18:34:37 +0000 https://energytransition.org/?p=14408#comment-5174 Even in Wyoming, this is not very likely to pass. Philip Anschutz, the billionaire promoter of gigawatts of wind in Wyoming, will be marshalling his own troops. Even if the measure passes, it won’t spread. Tiny Wyoming’s neighbours (the population is under 600,000) don’t have its coal mines, and the coal lobby is therefore much weaker.

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