New York forces 37 gas backup plants to close
Tom KirkmanIndependent Project Manager
New York is forcing 37 natural gas backup power plants to close.
This goes hand in hand with New York’s repeated blocking for years of new natural gas pipelines.
● Enjoy your rolling power blackouts for the forseeable summers in New York.
After these natural gas peaker power generation plants close down, it is unlikely they will ever get restarted again in the future.
New York is mandating a slow-moving Energy Darwin Awards.
● It will probably take a few years before the rolling power blackouts in New York become blithely accepted as the New Energy Blackout Normal during the summers, and by then, it will be too late to reverse course.
And I have zero sympathy for those that are pushing this energy de-growth agenda.
If you have been paying attention to New York City and Chicago, they were proudly supportive of illegal aliens flooding in through the Southern border.
Until hundreds of said illegal aliens are suddenly going to be living in their local Chicago and New York City grade school gymnasiums, preventing local kids from using the gym.
But it’s already too late to reverse course.
Woke Bed. You made it. You lay in it. And don’t complain about the bed you made.
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“… In 2019, the state [of New York] adopted the Peaker Rule, named for the fossil-fuel generation plants that kick in during the hottest months of summer when air conditioners run around the clock.
The regulation required peakers to adopt stringent pollution controls by 2023 and 2025.
Those that couldn’t retrofit their plants to comply with lower allowable emissions rates were forced to retire.
To date, the state Department of Environmental Conservation says, some 37 plants have plans to retire, many after 50 years of operation.
● That totals about one gigawatt of fossil fuel generation, enough to power 750,000 homes and the equivalent of 3.1 million solar panels. …”