GOLDEN CRESCENT AND 1000 ISLAND NEWS

  It's so frustrating and NYPA's unwillingness to fully identify the projects is suspect, as well.  I spent significant time this morning trying to find information about a company called Forward Power which is supposedly sponsoring project E4, a 180 MW project in Charleston, but they have no web presence.  A little more digging and I found that they are a joint venture between Invenergy and another company associated with Clean Path.   This led me to the following links, which seems to point to NYPA attempting to revive Clean Path as a "Primary Transmission Project."  Forward Power was a rumored bidder on the project according to the 1st article.  On Thursday, the PSC denied the petition, but it seems a clear indication of NYPA's downstate advocacy in this regard.  Apologies if I am covering info that you already are aware of. https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/12/nypa-pitches-transmission-line-revival-00195956   (Sorry, it's be...

  Aug. 20, 2025   Get out your notepads, social scientists. A “preference falsification” bubble is about to go pop in the realm of climate policy. The term comes from Duke University’s Timur Kuran, for when people feel pressured to adopt and exhibit ideas they don’t believe in. One such bubble was born under near-laboratory conditions in December 2008. The incoming Obama administration decided, with Republicans vacating the White House, the “existential” threat of climate change  no longer   merited unpopular energy taxes. Subsidies to its green-energy cronies would suffice. In haste, the climate movement prostrated itself before this idea, as did the mainstream press,  though it was nonsense . This year  Donald Trump  has done the world a favor by defunding the green-energy elite and its policy substrate. In the strange way of events, greens now can free themselves from false fealty to a nonsolution. But  it’s going to take a long ...

  August 26   - U.S. President Donald Trump has used his second term in the White House to stymie development of wind and solar energy facilities that were a cornerstone of former President Joe Biden's climate and energy agendas.   Here is a timeline of actions his administration has taken to unravel federal support for clean energy projects:   January 20 On his first day in office, Trump  paused new leasing and permitting  of wind energy projects on federal lands and waters pending a federal review. This marked a major shift in U.S. energy policy, which under Biden had been focused on decarbonizing the U.S. electricity grid by 2035.   April 17 The Trump administration  ordered construction to stop  on Equinor's offshore wind project off the coast of New York, saying it had been approved without a thorough environmental analysis. A month later, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum  allowed work to resume , in an apparent compromise with the st...

  Aug. 26, 2025 When the Trump administration  ordered that construction stop  last week at Revolution Wind, a giant wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that was nearly finished, it alluded vaguely to national security concerns but did not offer any further explanation. It’s becoming a striking pattern. The order was the third time the Trump administration had revoked permits or halted work on wind farms that had already received federal approval while offering little legal justification for doing so, following actions against wind projects in New York and Idaho. Legal experts say that there is little basis for blocking projects that have already received permits. The Trump administration has  signaled in a court filing  that it next plans to rescind federal approvals for yet another wind farm, the Maryland Offshore Wind Project, which had not yet begun construction but would consist of up to 114 wind turbines off the coast of Ocean City, Md. The filing...

  Key Points ·            President Donald Trump said the U.S. will not approve wind or solar power projects. ·            Trump has tightened federal permitting for renewables with Interior Secretary Doug Burgum now having the final say. ·            Renewable companies fear that projects will no longer receive permits that were once normal course of business.   Wind turbines operate at a wind farm near solar panels near Palm Springs, California, on March 6, 2024. Mario Tama | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Wednesday said his administration will not approve solar or wind power projects, even as electricity demand is outpacing the supply in some parts of the U.S. “We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar,” Trump, who has complained in the past that solar takes up too much land,  posted on Truth Social . “The days of stup...

  The renewable energy industry was reeling Friday over a move by the Trump administration to tighten tax rules for wind and solar projects. New Treasury guidance details how projects can qualify for lucrative federal tax credits, which are set to expire starting next summer. The upshot: It’s harder than expected.   The administration eliminated a key method--spending on things like equipment orders--that developers have long used to lock in eligibility for tax credits.   Now, projects must begin "physical work of a significant nature."   Oliver Kerr, managing director for North America for Aurora Energy Research, said the rules are “worse than many in the industry had expected or hoped for.”   The U.S. is building around 29 gigawatts of wind and solar projects. “ It will be challenging for a material number of additional projects to meet the new Physical Work Test requirements before June 2026,”  Kerr said.   A July executive order said the guidance s...

  The Agriculture Department is curtailing its support for solar and wind energy on farmlands. In a Monday post on  the social media platform X , Agriculture Secretary  Brooke Rollins  said  the department “will no longer deploy programs to fund solar or wind projects on productive farmland, ending massive taxpayer handouts.” The department, on Tuesday, said that  wind and solar projects would no longer be eligible for USDA  business and industry loan guarantees. It also said it would put restrictions on projects that receive funding through the Rural Energy for America Program. Specifically, larger solar projects — those with a capacity of more than 50 kilowatts —  will not be eligible . The moves come on the heels of other administration  efforts to hamper  renewable energy. President Trump’s  big, beautiful bill axed tax credits for wind and solar. The Treasury Department  last week also  issued new guidance...

  It was back in 2021 that I started to ask   which country or U.S. state would be the first to hit the “Green Energy Wall.”   It has long been obvious to anyone who looks at the situation that the fantasy of a fully de-carbonized energy system, with everything run on electricity generated by intermittent wind and sun, could never happen. But what would be the limiting condition that would put a stop to the madness? Would it be confronting the absurd costs of grid-scale battery storage? Or perhaps a string of blackouts caused by insufficient backup of the wind and solar generation? Here  in New York, we are starting to see some push back from politicians  on the fantasy green energy transition, but the source may be the last thing you would have predicted. The immediate issue is the cost of upgrading local delivery infrastructure to transmit sufficient electricity for the imagined future of electrified buildings and vehicles. Supposedly, under a statute known as...

  This morning,  The Hill published my article  on the fierce opposition to Big Solar and Big Wind in the British Isles. I explained: Britain’s plans to achieve  net-zero emissions by 2050  won’t be derailed by high costs, even though Brits are now paying some of the  world’s highest residential electricity prices . Nor will the effort be derailed by lack of support from the Labour Party...Instead, the country’s net-zero scheme will fail because of the fierce opposition from rural landowners throughout the British Isles. They are telling the owners of proposed solar and wind projects to take their oceans of photovoltaic panels and forests of giant turbines and put them somewhere the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow.   I published the piece in  The Hill  to draw more attention to the alt-energy  land-use conflicts that are raging around the world . Those conflicts are particularly obvious in the British Isles. As I explained in...