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Propel NY Energy – New York Transco

  FERC doc attached. Why does Western NY get OVERHEAD TRANSMISSION instead of underground!! Propel NY Energy – New York Transco nytransco.com/propelnyenergy Provide a cleaner, healthier New York by enabling greater transmission of clean energy, including offshore wind, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Have minimal impact with careful routing that optimizes public rights-of-way with underground lines. Help New York State achieve nation-leading climate change goals by bringing clean energy to ... Overview — Propel NY Energy www.propelnyenergy.com/overview We are New York-based and New York-focused — developing and implementing energy solutions that benefit all New Yorkers in ways that respect and reflect local voices and local values. We pride ourselves on working closely with all stakeholders to ensure our project prioritizes the wellbeing of communities and protects the surrounding ... Neighbor Outreach — Propel NY Energy www.propelnyenergy.com/neighbors Neighbor Communications.
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The Green Energy Wall Can't Arrive Quickly Enough

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  We are fast approaching something I have called the “Green Energy Wall.” The “Wall” consists of some combination of real-world obstacles, partly cost and partly physics, that will inevitably end the quest for emissions-free “net zero” electricity generation well before the goal of zero emissions is reached. I first identified the approaching Wall in   this post in December 2021 ,   and remarked that it was “gradually coming into focus” in   this follow-up post in November 2023 . Everyone who pays attention and is capable of doing basic arithmetic knows that we are approaching this Wall, some jurisdictions much faster than others. (New York has voluntarily put itself in the front ranks.). What we don’t know is how the hitting of the Wall will manifest itself: Widespread and frequent blackouts? Regular, enforced load-shedding brown-outs? Tripling or quadrupling of electricity prices? A political uprising as people realize that they have been duped by scammers claiming that an energy tr
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What’s Keeping the Lights On?

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  New York-ISO May 7 – May 14 Natural gas, hydro, and nuclear served the majority of the Empire State’s demand. Wind had one day where it made a modest contribution. Solar flatlined at near zero.  
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Wind turbines keep getting bigger

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  May 8th 2024 I n recent years  the manufacture of blades for wind turbines has undergone a revolution, as it were. Two decades ago lengths of 40 metres or so were an achievement. Thanks largely to lighter and stronger carbon-fibre composites, the state of the art is now triple that. As turbine output is proportional to the square of blade length, this has also increased how much power can be produced. The biggest turbines in 2004 could generate about two megawatts. Today’s giants can exceed 15. But there’s a hitch. Today’s longest blades have become too big to be delivered to inland wind farms. They can be taken only by ship to offshore sites, where building costs are far higher. chart: the economist Logistics specialists have consequently been raising their game. Lorries with “blade-lifter” hydraulics can rotate their cargo to reduce lateral displacement on turns, a useful trick in hilly terrain without overhead obstacles. The past decade has also seen the development of highly accu
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When the Only Problem Was Climate Change

  Rich countries, global institutions and the private-jet set haven’t always been obsessed with climate change. Their preoccupation began in the early 1990s, at the end of the Cold War. That wasn’t a coincidence. The Soviet Union fell, communism was vanquished, and peace prevailed among major powers. As Francis Fukuyama brashly claimed, history had ended. All that remained was fixing climate change. Proponents of climate action advocated ending reliance on the fossil fuels that had powered two centuries of astonishing growth. These activists conceded that this would cost hundreds of trillions of dollars but insisted that massive renewable-energy growth was in the pipeline. This would be the last great push to a glorious future. How naive. Time hasn’t been kind to the idea that climate change was humanity’s last problem or that the planet would unite to solve it. A rapid global transition from fossil fuels is, and always has been, impossible. There are several reasons that make it so. M
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Commentary: How much, exactly, is the energy transition going to cost us?

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  Honesty was so important to Ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes that it is said he would weep at its absence. In this spirit, let me begin by stating categorically that human-caused global climate change is real. It places humanity in peril, and in order to stop this cataclysm from occurring, dramatic changes must occur in virtually every aspect of modern life.   New York has joined many national, state and local governments in adopting legislation to combat climate change. The 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act set a mandate of reducing the state’s total greenhouse gas emissions by 85% by 2050 compared to 1990 levels and requires that electricity used in the state be 70% zero emission by 2030 and 100% by 2040.    This work will profoundly affect all aspects of our state ’ s economy, including our transportation systems, agriculture, manufacturing and all sectors of real estate. While I believe these mandates are technically feasible, I have grave concerns about our
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What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Energy Transition

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  What The Media Won’t Tell You About The Energy Transition The hype, and the reality, about the energy transition in 10 charts   MAY 07, 2024   Cooling towers at India’s Mahatma Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project, a 1,320 MW coal-fired power plant in Haryana . Over the past few days, I’ve searched the NewsBank archive for uses of “energy transition.” One of the earliest uses of that now-ubiquitous phrase occurred in the  Christian Science Monitor  in 1981. In a dispatch from Nairobi, a reporter named Richard Critchfield explained that some “4,000 delegates from 154 countries” were gathering in the Kenyan capital for a two-week United Nations conference on new and renewable sources of energy. “The purpose of the conference,” Critchfield explained, was to “promote better understanding of the global energy transition from oil to such new sources as geothermal, solar, wind, ocean, and hydropower or energy from biomass, fuelwood, charcoal, peat, draught animals, oil shale, and tar sands.”
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