The News and Record reports that Governor Stein has taken a stand on the matter of data centers causing electric rates to increase. He says that the data center companies need to foot the bill for creating the new capacity their facilities require.
What does the “journalist” fail to report? That Stein has been in favor of the green agenda that tends to drive up electric rates. He might try to affect a heroic stand that he is protecting the public from rate increases, but the overall direction of his work as a public official has been to increase electric rate costs for homeowners.
This is a deceptive politician. But it is also incompetent journalism.
Green is dead. And Stein knows it. I hope most folks can see him for the hypocrite he most definitely is.
Yes, he IS a hypocrite, Fred. Few members of the general public will connect the dots, unfortunately. He is getting a pass, just as Roy Cooper did, because the regional mainstream media is on his side.
Well said on both points. “Journalists” (historically, but even more so today) seem to be people who enjoy lying…but are too lazy or too stupid to get into law school.
The Dem’s mandates requiring a large portion of Duke’s electricity be produced by unreliable “renewables”, which still require nat gas capacity as constant back up and are much more expensive than nat gas alone would be, make our electricity more expensive than it should be. Furthermore, it is questionable that land-scaring windmills/solar are a net environmental benefit.
While the Raleigh Republicans have corrected these mandates after having imposed them in concert with the socialists, J. Sobran, it is clear that Stein was a cheerleader. He still appoints some of the members of the state Utilities Commission.
Triad, they didn’t correct the mandates. Republicans were bought off. They did stop the escalation planned by the Dems for the percentage of wasteful renewables required. The Republicans froze the % at 12.5%
So rather than generating electricity the most efficient way, Duke is forced to generate 12.5% of its electricity with unreliable wind/solar (for which it must have nat gas back-up, an expensive redundancy). Nat gas and nuclear are both probably better for the environment than wind/solar–both scars on large quantites of land.
{I earlier submitted a similar post that never appeared}
Sorry, I never received that post, J. Sobran.
Yes, the mandates remain but my understanding of the new law is that the mandates can’t decrease reliability or increase costs. I don’t know how that works in real life. Duke has been eager unfortunately to participate in this junk. Perhaps it is the spirit of the age; perhaps it is a perception that they have no choice.