How Are Hospitals and Electric Utilities Alike?

Government Monopoly

Both are regulated monopolies. Government monopolies. Patients and customers are denied the benefits of competition. Patients have fewer choices and get government medicine. Customers get more expensive and less reliable electricity.

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Do You Want Your Electricity On or Green?

Entergy Sunflower Solar Station

Solar’s intermittency is a problem for the grid that connects plants that generate electricity and customers that use it. The grid doesn’t store electricity. So the customer’s demand for electricity must be in balance with the supply of electricity from the plants that generate it. Otherwise, the grid destabilizes and bad things happen (e.g., rolling brownouts, blackouts, and even grid failure).

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BPF Motion To Intervene in WildWood Solar, LLC

BPF Motion To Intervene in Wildwood Solar, LLC

Bigger Pie and its readers have a substantial interest in the outcome of this proceeding, and in the provision of suggestions relating to Wildwood Solar, LLC, and therefore request permission to intervene in this Docket.

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Expensive Electricity and Blackouts

Expensive Electricity and Blackouts

What raises electric rates and causes blackouts?  Too many windmills and solar panels.  What causes too many windmills and solar panels?  Federal subsidies.  What’s the latest and biggest perverse federal subsidy?  The “Inflation Reduction Act.”

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Cashier in the Coal Mine

Thomas Edison's Dynamo

Coal is still the primary fuel used for generating electricity worldwide with a market share of 36.7%.  In the U.S., coal’s share is 21.8%, which ranks second to natural gas at 38.3%.

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