Comments on: Governor Rick Perry (R-TX), T. Boone Pickens, and the Enron Legacy of Windpower

By: What the Wind Industry doesn’t want you to know!!!!………..it’s “Enron Roots”! « The Big Green Lie

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:08:07 +0000

[...] Successfully lobbying Texas politicians to enact the most strict renewable mandate in the country in 1999. [...]

By: Rick Perry’s Energy Plan is Good For Growth | ALL ALTERNATIVE ENERGY

Rick Perry’s Energy Plan is Good For Growth | ALL ALTERNATIVE ENERGY — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:37:07 +0000

[...] The MasterResource blog has documented a purpose of Perry in a (artificial) Texas breeze appetite boom. In Oct 2006, Perry announced $10 billion in commitments from breeze developers to boost commissioned Texas breeze ability by about 7,000 megawatts. And to get it, he committed a state to a $5 billion, and now $7 billion, delivery project. [...]

By: California’s Enron Energy, Climate Policy | Institute for Energy Research

California’s Enron Energy, Climate Policy | Institute for Energy Research — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:45:56 +0000

[...] state produces more non-hydro renewable energy than any state in the union except for Texas (which, per Enron, enacted a strict renewable-energy quota in [...]

By: Who Was Ken Lay? (The Senate should know the industry father of U.S.-side cap-and-trade) — MasterResource

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:48:07 +0000

[...] establishing a statewide renewable-energy mandate. Enron’s lobbyists had the special interest of Enron Wind Company, which is now part of General Electric, in [...]

By: rbradley

rbradley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:54:49 +0000

Jay:

If wind saves electricity users money, then coercion in the form of Texas’ renewable mandate would not be necessary.

The reality is that wind costs more to produce and even more to transmit than conventional energies, and worst of all, it is intermittent. Just as you would not by a cheaper car with a trick motor (an engine that turned off and on by itself), even if the power was cheaper, consumers would still say no.

Recorded wind prices have been low and even negative, but that quirky story has been explained by Mike Giberson at Knowledge Problem. It appears that wind gets so much tax credit that the operators will take any price just to qualify kWh’s for Uncle Sam.

By: Jay Alt

Jay Alt — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 06:14:09 +0000

Wind farms will save Texans money. The billions spent on new transmission lines will be more than offset by recurrent savings. Texas utility customers will not be disappointed (or ‘fooled’) at the prospect of skipping the fuel bill, displacing dirty energy and getting $3 billion annual savings.

http://www.aep.com/newsroom/newsreleases/?id=1360

The Chinese are building wind farms that’ll make the Pikens Project look like a hobby farm. Perhaps some new chinese leader will arise to fund misinformation campaigns, reverse progress and continue choking their population with coal fumes.

By: Texas’s "Solar Session" Fails to Enact Renewable Mandate #3 (a reality check for a federal RES?) — MasterResource

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:02:02 +0000

[...] effort by national environmental pressure groups and the solar industry. Has the decade-old Enron-launched artificial stimulus to uneconomic, unreliable renewables reached its apogee? Might existing and [...]

By: &#8220Repower Texas&#8221: Taxpayers, Ratepayers, Economic Energy Producers Beware! — MasterResource

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:02:41 +0000

[...] In Houston, they have arrived. The “Repower Texas” campaign is being fronted by a group of government-dependent political capitalists that see Big Green (as in money) in Texas’s renewable energy mandates. And how did this business underclass get started? It began with the Ken Lay/Enron renewables mandate for the Lone Star State in 1999, and the policy begun by then-governor George W. Bush is being continued today by governor Rick Perry. [...]

By: A Texas-Sized Energy Problem: Republicans, Democrats, and ‘Baptists & Bootleggers’ Running Wild in the Lone Star State (Obama sends his thanks) — MasterResource

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:01:45 +0000

[...] a statewide renewable-energy mandate. Enron’s lobbyists had the special interest of Enron Wind Company, which is now part of General Electric, in [...]

By: Getting Real: The Oil Majors Move Away from Political Energy (Government-dependent wind, solar are not ready for prime time) — MasterResource

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:14:53 +0000

[...] As Texas proves, mandatory renewable-energy quotas are required. In 1999, that state enacted the Enron provision of an electricity restructuring bill that made Texas the nation’s leader in new windpower [...]