Federal solar credit is 30% to buy chicom solar panels. Tough to compete with subsidized chicom manufacturing with no real labor regulation and definitely lax environmental regulation. So the chicoms produce cheap coal powered electricity to manufacture cheap solar panels to sell to the US to reduce CO2 production. Pure genius. Of course, Cho Bai Den is all in on continuing this economic stupidity for unknown reasons.
The green energy industry is scrambling as Congress pushes forward with legislation that would impose costly tariffs on Chinese solar panels, a move that industry leaders say would cripple their business given their overwhelming reliance on cheap Chinese suppliers.
The House on Friday passed a bipartisan bill to restore tariffs on Chinese solar panels sold out of Southeast Asia, tariffs that President Joe Biden suspended last year in an attempt to "satisfy the demand for reliable and clean energy." The legislation has already garnered support among some Senate Democrats, reflecting s significant possibility that the bill will become law.
For the green energy industry, that possibility marks a full-blown disaster.
China controls more than 80 percent of the world's solar panel production, a figure that hasn't waned as Biden spends hundreds of billions of dollars on green energy subsidies intended to give the United States the ability to "compete with China." Instead, U.S. solar companies have been flooded with increased demand and have turned to China to satisfy it. A reimposition of Chinese solar tariffs would cost U.S. developers at least $1 billion in retroactive fees, prompting solar executives and trade groups to publicly stress their need to maintain a free flow of cheap Chinese goods.
The Solar Energy Industries Association, for example, admitted in a Friday statement that the United States "cannot produce enough solar panels and cells to meet demand." The American Council on Renewable Energy similarly said Chinese tariffs "would have a devastating impact on U.S. solar deployment." Solar energy contractor George Hershman, meanwhile, said tariffs would prompt him to lay off "thousands of people," given the hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that his company, SOLV Energy, has fulfilled using Chinese goods. "I don't know why anyone would support this," Hershman told the Washington Post.
But for many congressional Democrats and Republicans, the reasoning for renewed tariffs is clear. China has for years provided illegal subsidies to its solar energy companies, allowing them to undercut U.S. competitors. When the United States imposed tariffs on Chinese solar companies to combat those illegal practices, China got around the tariffs by shipping its products through a handful of nations in Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Tariffs on Chinese goods sold out of those countries, then, allow U.S. solar manufacturers to compete with "cheap, unfairly subsidized imports," an argument that both Missouri Republican congressman Jason Smith and Ohio Democratic senator Sherrod Brown have made in recent days.
For the Biden administration, however, the desire to transition to green energy has outweighed any appetite to combat China. Last summer, as Biden's Commerce Department investigated whether Chinese solar companies dodged U.S. tariffs by routing their operations through Southeast Asia, Biden issued an executive order delaying tariffs on Chinese solar products sold in the region for two years. Biden held firm on that delay even as his Commerce Department determined months later that China's solar industry indeed did dodge U.S. tariffs through its work in Southeast Asia. Ensuring a steady supply of solar panels, the White House said in a June 2022 fact sheet, was simply too important to risk.
Basis physics says that if the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing then you need nuclear, hydro or fossil fuels to supply your base load of electrical demand. So, wind and solar doesn't replace your standard gas or coal plants, just reduce the run rate, but you still need to have and maintain the base load plants. If you are a Cali electric consumer you are well away that cheap green and clean renewable electricity is none of these things. But not a voting issue for dems who care so much about the SCIENCE.
THE DAILY CHART: IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK CURVE. . . The chart below is hard to understand just from a glance, but it is legendary in California energy circles as the “duck curve.” We’ll try to decode what it means. Basically it displays California’s electricity supply and demand minus solar and wind power—that is, it displays demand and supply from conventional sources like natural gas-fired plants, nuclear, hydro, and other sources. In 2015 the shape of the curve looks like a duck’s back. By 2023, the curve looks like a duck with a distended stomach, or perhaps a canyon. As California has been installing more and more utility-scale solar power, we are now to the point where in the middle of an average sunny day California can meet its electricity demands wholly from wind and solar power. In fact we sometimes have surplus power that suppliers actually pay customers (and other states) to take. Great!, say the greenies. The problem is evident from the duck’s neck, as electricity demand typically peaks in the evening when solar power production falls to zero—duh—and wind power is unreliable. That’s when California has to switch on its gas plants and other conventional sources.
Because of the favoritism and mandates in favor of wind and solar power (wind power can sell its output for negative prices and still make a profit because of the production tax credit), conventional suppliers can’t sell their product mid-day but are expected to be ready to bail us all out every night. (Given that California’s one remaining nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, has to run 24/7 and generates nearly 10 percent of California’s total electricity, the solar output mid-day merely displaces Diablo’s output and thus doesn’t actually provide that much reduction in carbon emissions, which is the main point of solar.) And because you can’t switch on a gas plant like a light switch, many of them have to operate all day long anyway, which means the duck belly also isn’t delivering that much reduction in emissions.
Here’s what the natural gas “ramp rate” looks like this:
And they crooks cook the books to push their one world authoritarian state. That is where we are today. They want total control over you and they want to exterminate 85% of the population. They already started that with the vax.
They are indeed trying to kill you one way or another.
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https://freebeacon.com/energy/green-energy-industry-admits-it-needs-cheap-chinese-goods-to-survive/
The green energy industry is scrambling as Congress pushes forward with legislation that would impose costly tariffs on Chinese solar panels, a move that industry leaders say would cripple their business given their overwhelming reliance on cheap Chinese suppliers.
The House on Friday passed a bipartisan bill to restore tariffs on Chinese solar panels sold out of Southeast Asia, tariffs that President Joe Biden suspended last year in an attempt to "satisfy the demand for reliable and clean energy." The legislation has already garnered support among some Senate Democrats, reflecting s significant possibility that the bill will become law.
For the green energy industry, that possibility marks a full-blown disaster.
China controls more than 80 percent of the world's solar panel production, a figure that hasn't waned as Biden spends hundreds of billions of dollars on green energy subsidies intended to give the United States the ability to "compete with China." Instead, U.S. solar companies have been flooded with increased demand and have turned to China to satisfy it. A reimposition of Chinese solar tariffs would cost U.S. developers at least $1 billion in retroactive fees, prompting solar executives and trade groups to publicly stress their need to maintain a free flow of cheap Chinese goods.
The Solar Energy Industries Association, for example, admitted in a Friday statement that the United States "cannot produce enough solar panels and cells to meet demand." The American Council on Renewable Energy similarly said Chinese tariffs "would have a devastating impact on U.S. solar deployment." Solar energy contractor George Hershman, meanwhile, said tariffs would prompt him to lay off "thousands of people," given the hundreds of millions of dollars in projects that his company, SOLV Energy, has fulfilled using Chinese goods. "I don't know why anyone would support this," Hershman told the Washington Post.
But for many congressional Democrats and Republicans, the reasoning for renewed tariffs is clear. China has for years provided illegal subsidies to its solar energy companies, allowing them to undercut U.S. competitors. When the United States imposed tariffs on Chinese solar companies to combat those illegal practices, China got around the tariffs by shipping its products through a handful of nations in Southeast Asia, including Cambodia, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Tariffs on Chinese goods sold out of those countries, then, allow U.S. solar manufacturers to compete with "cheap, unfairly subsidized imports," an argument that both Missouri Republican congressman Jason Smith and Ohio Democratic senator Sherrod Brown have made in recent days.
For the Biden administration, however, the desire to transition to green energy has outweighed any appetite to combat China. Last summer, as Biden's Commerce Department investigated whether Chinese solar companies dodged U.S. tariffs by routing their operations through Southeast Asia, Biden issued an executive order delaying tariffs on Chinese solar products sold in the region for two years. Biden held firm on that delay even as his Commerce Department determined months later that China's solar industry indeed did dodge U.S. tariffs through its work in Southeast Asia. Ensuring a steady supply of solar panels, the White House said in a June 2022 fact sheet, was simply too important to risk.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/the-daily-chart-if-it-quacks-like-a-duck-curve.php
THE DAILY CHART: IF IT QUACKS LIKE A DUCK CURVE. . .
The chart below is hard to understand just from a glance, but it is legendary in California energy circles as the “duck curve.” We’ll try to decode what it means. Basically it displays California’s electricity supply and demand minus solar and wind power—that is, it displays demand and supply from conventional sources like natural gas-fired plants, nuclear, hydro, and other sources. In 2015 the shape of the curve looks like a duck’s back. By 2023, the curve looks like a duck with a distended stomach, or perhaps a canyon.
As California has been installing more and more utility-scale solar power, we are now to the point where in the middle of an average sunny day California can meet its electricity demands wholly from wind and solar power. In fact we sometimes have surplus power that suppliers actually pay customers (and other states) to take. Great!, say the greenies. The problem is evident from the duck’s neck, as electricity demand typically peaks in the evening when solar power production falls to zero—duh—and wind power is unreliable. That’s when California has to switch on its gas plants and other conventional sources.
Because of the favoritism and mandates in favor of wind and solar power (wind power can sell its output for negative prices and still make a profit because of the production tax credit), conventional suppliers can’t sell their product mid-day but are expected to be ready to bail us all out every night. (Given that California’s one remaining nuclear power plant, Diablo Canyon, has to run 24/7 and generates nearly 10 percent of California’s total electricity, the solar output mid-day merely displaces Diablo’s output and thus doesn’t actually provide that much reduction in carbon emissions, which is the main point of solar.) And because you can’t switch on a gas plant like a light switch, many of them have to operate all day long anyway, which means the duck belly also isn’t delivering that much reduction in emissions.
Here’s what the natural gas “ramp rate” looks like this:
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You decide.
They are indeed trying to kill you one way or another.
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