Ideology Meets Reality -- And Reality Sucks For Some -- June 26, 2018

I think we are going to see more of this. Reality. From EnergyNews.

As long as there is not a nationwide standard, states that "market" themselves as "clean energy states" are going to find themselves drawing the "short end of the industrial/manufacturing" straw, as they say.

Wind / solar is much more expensive than coal or natural gas.

Wind / solar is not dependable. It certainly is not dispatchable.

States with mandated high renewable energy requirements will lose out to states with lower (or no) mandated renewable energy requirements.

States that want to "normalize" the cost of renewable energy to fossil fuel energy will require wealth redistribution -- the state will need other people's money to subsidize the cost of renewable energy.

That's reality.

Ohio apparently is getting a dose of reality.

These articles are hard to read quickly (much obfuscation) but if spelled out, this is what I take away from the article:

• Ohio wants to back away from "required/mandated" standards to "targets"
• Ohio wants to lower the standards/targets 
• the top renewable energy standard/target would decrease from 12.5 percent to 8.5 percent
• the top energy efficiency target would fall from 22.2 percent to 17.2 percent

And a target is just that. A target.

Oh, by the way, Ohio sits on one of the world's largest supplies of natural gas. Just saying.

Reality.