“A 730-mile electricity transmission line connecting a massive Wyoming wind farm to southern California has stalled in a legal battle pitting the progress of one of the West’s largest infrastructure projects against an ecosystem preservation agreement on a large northwest Colorado ranch. The $3 billion transmission line by TransWest Express, a company owned by … [Read more…]
“In order for renewable energy projects to gain traction on a larger scale in the United States, significant investments need to go into building the required underlying infrastructure, including a green sustainable grid across the country. Eminent domain, the government’s right to expropriate private property for public use with just compensation, has historically been … [Read more…]
“Wind and solar energy are both essentially obsolete technologies. There is a reason why only the very rich or the very adventurous sail across oceans: the wind is unreliable, and at best produces relatively little energy. Nevertheless, liberals have concocted fantasies whereby all of our electricity, or perhaps our entire economy, will be powered … [Read more…]
“Democrats on Capitol Hill are fighting to make it more difficult to seize land for natural gas pipelines. But a climate policy-driven buildout of electricity transmission lines in the near future poses similar challenges.” https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/712986/eminent-domain-concerns-loom-over-clean-energy-transition/ National Journal 29 March 2021.
“Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Friday that the state Public Service Commission approved a 93-mile 345-kilovolt transmission line starting in Oneida County and extending to Albany County to enable greater flow of clean energy as part of the 2021 State of the State. The nearly $854 million project, named the Marcy to New Scotland … [Read more…]
“It’s not just your perception, the number of power outages is increasing, as storms wreak havoc on the aging electrical grid. New research conducted by Climate Central backs up what many of us feel we have been experiencing. While New England is dealing with more frequent outages, nationwide they are increasing too. These outages … [Read more…]
“It’s been a tough few years — a tough decade, really — for big U.S. transmission projects seeking to carry wind and solar power from where it’s most cost-effectively generated to where it’s needed the most. Major infrastructure projects are notoriously tough to build in 21st-century America, and that seems especially true for transmission … [Read more…]
“Landowners in Missouri are fighting the use of eminent domain by the developers of the $2.3 billion Grain Belt Express power line to run the high-voltage power line across their property. The future of a proposed 780-mile transmission line that would carry as much as 4,000 megawatts of wind power from southwestern Kansas across … [Read more…]
“There’s an old saw in the trash business that says, “everybody wants their trash picked up but nobody wants it put down.” That’s not a perfect analogy for what’s happening with renewable-energy projects in New York and New England but the sentiment behind it is familiar. A recent Gallup poll found that 73 percent … [Read more…]
“As community members being forced to live within the borders or in close proximity to the Cassadaga Wind Project’s [CW] industrial facility, we are hereby requesting a public hearing in regard to the PSC issuance of a CPCN. As residents who will be directly impacted by this project for generations, we believe we should … [Read more…]