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Just say no to wind power
Wind power is winning in the Northeast Kingdom, and will continue to win, for a couple of reasons. Energy policy is terribly sensitive to fashion, and wind is currently fashionable. Hydro power used to be fashionable, and therefore good, and easy to push through the permit process. Now it is unfashionable, so while Vermont consumes great quantities of power from Hydro Quebec, we can't count it as renewable energy in our utilities' portfolios. That, of course, is an act of deliberate, politically inspired stupidity.
November 4, 2009
in Barton Chronicle
Wind power is winning in the Northeast Kingdom, and will continue to win, for a couple of reasons.
Energy policy is terribly sensitive to fashion, and wind is currently fashionable.
Hydro power used to be fashionable, and therefore good, and easy to push through the permit process. Now it is unfashionable, so while Vermont consumes great quantities of power from Hydro Quebec, we can't count it as renewable energy in our utilities' portfolios. That, of course, is an act of deliberate, politically inspired stupidity.
And small-scale hydro projects struggle to get through a regulatory process so long and labyrinthine that, by... [continue via Web link]
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