One of the telltale signs of how broken the Texas electricity market is the number of corporations with multi-billion dollar market caps coming here in pursuit of billions of dollars of renewable energy subsidies. Enter Iberdrola: July 08, 2020 – Iberdrola Texas today announced its entrance into the Texas marketplace, offering customers a more affordable,…
Category: Energy
Get the Economics Right: An Interview with Bill Peacock
I was interviewed last year by the good folks at Lara-Murphy Reporting. We talked about economics, electricity, and public policy. I thought I’d republish it here: Lara-Murphy Report: How did you discover Austrian economics? Bill Peacock: Its funny that you ask because I don’t really remember the source. It was in 1989—before the Internet. We…
Wind Turbines: A View from Orbit
Renewable Energy Debate Comes to Bell County
This article was originally published in The Texan About 60 local residents “crowded” into a Bell County Commissioner’s Court public hearing last Monday in Belton to learn more about a proposed solar farm west of Troy, about 30 miles south of Waco. Social distancing protocols meant attendees were spread out in the courtroom, the hallway,…
Georgetown Revamps Homeowner Solar Electric Program
by GeorgetownWatchDog The City initiated a program in 2006 to allow residential customers with wind and solar electric generation capability to pay only for electricity used in excess of their own needs at the standard residential rate. If the residential customers generated more electricity than they consumed, they earned credit equal to the city’s avoided…
Wind Energy Lives Off of Tax Dollars
Birds and Wind Turbines Don’t Mix
The Liberty Cafe 005: The Renewable Energy Culture is on the Wrong Side of Liberty
Don’t believe the slick marketing of the renewable energy industry. “Wind and solar energy are [not] cheaper to produce than that generated from coal or even natural gas.” And never will be. Which is why industry participants will spend whatever it takes to force American taxpayers and consumers to continue to fork out more than…
Renewable Energy Feeling the Pain of COVID-19
For the first time last year, electricity produced from wind in Texas almost equaled the amount produced from coal. This year, it appears as if wind is going to blow coal away. Last year, both sources produced about 20% of the electricity used on the grid. For the first three months of 2020, however, wind…
Liberty as the Source of Prosperity: A Question of Power
A version of this article was originally published on Texas Scorecard. I can’t think of a greater opportunity in my lifetime than the present for people to learn about the connection between liberty and prosperity. The problem is, just like other opportunities in the past, all the experts are busy telling us whatever they can…