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Petitions to suspend, review, and revoke federal authorizations and ongoing permitting for Alle Catt wind project
Author: Abraham, Gary
PETITION TO IMMEDIATELY SUSPEND, REVIEW AND REVOKE FEDERAL AUTHORIZATIONS AND ONGOING PERMITTING PROCESSES IN CONNECTION WITH THE ALLE-CATT WIND PROJECT IN WESTERN NEW YORK AND TO ADDRESS CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES Dear Attorney General Bondi, Secretaries Wright and Burgum, Administrators Zeldin and Rocheleau, and Biologist Leput and Physical Scientist Rowley: On behalf of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens, an active party in the state siting proceeding reviewing this wind farm proposal, we hereby submit this letter Petition requesting that your respective agencies . . .
More »Well Hidden and Distorted Costs of Renewables: A Comprehensive Comparison of Wind Power and Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Plant
Author: Ciccone, Terigi
I. Introduction: The Critical Need for Reliable Power in an Electrified World Wind power looks cheap on paper thanks to metrics like LCOE, but making it as reliable and robust as a natural gas plant requires massive overbuilds, backups, and infrastructure—ballooning actual total system costs by 5-40 times higher. Here’s the full breakdown. Consider the following scenarios: A hospital operating room loses power during a complex surgery, causing monitors to fail and life-support systems to shut down, endangering patients in . . .
More »Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
Author: Hilton, Zoe; Wu, Michael; and Morrison, Aidan
Executive Summary The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the sun rests on a misplaced conviction about what the renewables rollout will entail. The idea that our previous accomplishments should encourage further persistence depends on the presupposition that the transition to renewables benefits from gathering momentum. Advocates point to the increase in wind and solar from 1.5% of our electricity share in 2010 to around 33% today as a success, and evidence that . . .
More »Energies renouvelables : entre pression fiscale et précarité
Author: Riou, Jean-Pierre
[Renewable energies: between tax pressure and precariousness] La fiscalité énergétique Dans les pays de l’OCDE, le ratio impôts/PIB s’échelonnait en 2023 de 17.7 % au Mexique à 43.8 % en France. La répartition sociale permet cependant à 54,1% (en 2022) des foyers fiscaux français d’être dispensés du prélèvement obligatoire de l’impôt sur le revenu. Mais pour autant, le financement du gouffre sans fond de la transition énergétique fait injustement porter le plus gros effort sur les plus pauvres, et tout particulièrement sur . . .
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