“Demand-side management is authoritarian, tyrannical, and has no place in a free society. It’s time we stopped the trend of having more and more of our lives coming under the control of politicians….”
“The original notion behind DSM was that it is cheaper to save energy than to produce it. That’s true if consumers take their own actions, but not with high-overhead, high-profit utility-run plans.”
“The right thing to do is to make all Demand Side Management programs completely voluntary or abolish them outright.”
BEFORE THE GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
In the Matter of: Georgia Power Company’s Request for Approval (Docket Nos. 40161 & 40162 of its 2016 IRP and Decertification of Certain Generating Units)
Brief of Resource Supply Management
Georgia Power’s Demand-side Management [DSM] for commercial customers is a huge rip-off, accomplishing little or nothing beyond energy efficiency improvements that happen anyway.…
Continue Reading“With each oversized, out-of-scale, in-your-face wind project presented, scores of people join the not-so-quiet ‘war on wind’ raging nationwide…. While Big Media and Big Wind are busy forcing the vision they want, communities are taking aggressive action to limit wind’s negative impacts and will ultimately lead to far fewer projects being built.”
A journalist recently contacted windaction.org with questions about Colorado’s latest wind project sponsored by utility giant, Xcel Energy. The 600 MW, 300 turbine, $1.04 billion ‘farm’, if built, will span 150 square miles of Colorado’s sensitive eastern grasslands. To deliver the energy to market, Xcel must also construct a 90-mile 345 kv transmission line along a 150-foot wide right-of-way. The project is massive by any measure and the largest considered by the state.
Yet, according to the reporter, no one local has raised any concerns which explains the call.…
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JL: What are the primary obstacles to industrial progress?
AE: There are two key obstacles to industrial progress: one is a lack of a positive and the other is a negative, in large part made possible by the lack of the positive.
The lack of a positive is the lack of a clearly fleshed-out pro-industrial philosophy that embraces the progressive transformation of nature through energy and technology. Such a philosophy, among other things, would define the proper political policies under which that transformation should take place—namely policies based on individual rights—and it would morally embrace industrialization.
Without the right industrial philosophy, people don’t value industrial progress sufficiently, and don’t know what policies will nourish that value.
Being clear on the positive is indispensable. For instance in oil, you can see throughout history that it is really important that property rights should be based on the principle that the creator of the value in the resource should own it.…
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