Power PA Jobs

PowerPA Jobs is a coalition of labor, management and consumers opposed to PA carbon taxes on electric generation, manufacturing and motor fuels. #rggi #norggi

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

@GovernorShapiro’s #PACER & #PRESS Energy Taxes may cost PA ratepayers $14.85 BILLION over 5 years. PACER fully adopts Gov. Wolf’s #RGGI Energy Tax regulation w/ a tax of $21.03/CO2 ton or $1.49b/year. PRESS increases the current $528m/yr #AEPS Energy Tax by 2.8x, or $1.5b/yr.

[Alex Epstein @AlexEpstein]

The Northeast built almost no new natural gas pipeline capacity last year because anti-fossil-fuel policies make pipelines so difficult to permit.

Pennsylvania has abundant natural gas that could lower the Northeast's high regional energy prices—but not if there aren't enough pipelines to transport gas to demand centers!

We need to unleash pipeline construction in America.

[John Lee Pettimore @JohnLeePettim13]

Fact Checked True ✅

[Lee Zeldin @epaleezeldin]

The Biden EPA was lighting on fire billions of tax dollars to pay off their friends. Since Day ONE, the Trump EPA has implemented a ZERO TOLERANCE policy for ANY waste and abuse, which has resulted in $30 BILLION in savings.

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

Big win for PA workers and families! The PA Senate just passed SB 1068 with bipartisan support to repeal the harmful RGGI carbon tax-protecting jobs, keeping energy affordable & boosting our energy independence. #PowerPAJobs #EndRGGI @PASenateGOP
https://t.co/NDLid5YNxL

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

PA’s energy future is at stake. RGGI burdens residents while threatening jobs. The court should rule for Pennsylvanians, not failed policies.

[Pittsburgh Works @pgh_works]

What happens if the PA supreme court rules in favor of Pennsylvania joining the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative?

- Removal of reliable sources of generation
- More capacity strain on the PJM electric grid
- Higher electricity rates

https://t.co/qFfgjO29zt

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Battery price has dropped dramatically. That fixes storage for unreliable solar and wind, right?

not really

Cost of battery storage still

100x higher than storage in gas
1000x higher than in storage in oil

Leon Hirth from Hertie School at U of Berlin
https://t.co/KaDQtUEfgy

[Meredith Angwin @MeredithAngwin]

"All of the above" types of energy is not the right answer for the future. It is the feel-good answer, but not an answer that leads to reliability.
(Yeah, I'm quoted here.)
‘All of the above’ is the wrong answer https://t.co/Nhp1paqrZ7

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

Physics: “solar and wind require a duplicate backup energy system, often fossil-fuel driven, for when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.”

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Even a prime minister can’t overcome physics.

Spain’s commitment to solar and wind forces the country onto an unreliable, costly, more black-out-prone system.

Unfortunately, the Spanish energy system “is being managed with an enormous ideological bias.”

https://t.co/Pth0SNMk5z

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

A PA House committee intends to advance #HB501 (#PRESS) to increase #AEPS clean energy mandates from 18 to 50%, & Tier I wind & solar mandates from 8 to 35%. Is it odd that the PA PUC has yet to release its latest AEPS Report BEFORE the Committee meeting? https://t.co/V0KjnSNGR6

[Mark C. Christie @ChristieFERC]

Supreme Court endorses narrow environmental reviews in challenge to Utah railroad project https://t.co/n0xDFLMfcY via @nbcnews

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

Check out this great interview between @AMPotentialPod’s David From & @PACoalAlliance’s Executive Director, Rachel Gleason. A little common sense goes a long way. America can’t have an “all of the above” energy policy without coal & natural gas.

https://t.co/vMpmyYK604

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

All rational humans know that the more our grid relies upon intermittent, weather dependent sources of electricity, the more expensive and unreliable that power will be.

[NERC @NERC_Official]

Jim Robb, NERC president and CEO, warned a grid built on wind and solar, without inertia from traditional generation, is vulnerable to failure—referencing the recent Iberian blackout. Stressing the need for diversity, resilience, and certaintyd: https://t.co/EVjWBADsrs

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

Excellent development!! Great news to power plant workers and communities that would suffer under the Biden Power Plant rule.

[Steve Milloy @JunkScience]

Climate winning: EPA to eliminate CO2 emissions limits on power plants:

"The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the United States, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The New York Times. In its proposed regulation, the agency argued that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from power plants that burn fossil fuels “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” or to climate change because they are a small and declining share of global emissions. Eliminating those emissions would have no meaningful effect on public health and welfare, the agency said."

https://t.co/16qlBC6Ial

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

The expensive green delusion

Despite green energy being promoted as cheap, studies show that the true cost of solar and wind is typically significantly higher than fossil fuels.

From my latest newsletter: https://t.co/6nJ3S1iFzc

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[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

“Shifting blame to a profit-neutral grid operator who cares deeply about its mission to keep the lights on is one way to approach this issue. But consumers deserve better.” 4/4

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

PJM: “New Jersey has been shutting down existing resources to meet decarbonization objectives and it is currently importing more than 35% of its power from its neighbors.” 1/4

https://t.co/Jn7KrYLEDk

[Power PA Jobs @PowerPAJobs]

“The power grid is a machine governed by the principles of engineering, mathematics and economics. Policy, even well intended, has to be grounded in these principles.” 3/4

[Policy Committee @PolicyCmte]

RGGI is undoing the progress we already made on emissions — and no one’s talking about it.
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#LNG | #Energy

[Policy Committee @PolicyCmte]

If we don’t take energy policy seriously, THIS is going to happen… 👀
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#Energy | #RGGI