Skipping hybrids: Between 2020 and 2022, the last year for which figures are available, Cuba-based companies produced more than 23,000 electric vehicles, according to official data. Since then, demand has grown, alongside an economic crisis that has slashed both fuel supply and public transportation.
#RenewablesAreDeflationary
#EMicroMobilityReducesEmissionsFastFairFrugalForEssentialWorkers
#EndDangerousByDesign
Why make distributed clean energy resources viable when the centralized grid can unreliability provide fossil energy and create the climate where a distributed fossil generator becomes a life support system for the haves?
Sign the petition https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/keep-ava-community-energy-from-accepting-pges-nuclear-energy?blm_aid=0&blm_aid=21935
Keep Ava Community Energy from accepting PG&E’s Nuclear Energy! *Ava Community Energy (formerly East Bay Community Energy, or the EBCE), the public electricity agency servicing Alameda and San Joaquin Counties, is considering accepting PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear energy into its power mix. Community Choice programs in California were created to give the public the power to choose where their electricity comes from and what kind of energy it is (under California Assembly Bill 117 in 2002). In East Bay–Alameda County, the community effort led by the East Bay Clean Power Alliance has advocated for local clean energy through Ava Community Energy, with an emphasis on affordability, creating clean energy jobs, community wealth, less remote transmission, and combating climate change. Equity has been at the center of this effort since the beginning. At the April 17 Ava Community Energy board meeting there was an action item to possibly accept PG&E’s nuclear power and add it to Ava Community Energy’s Bright Choice – the energy tier competitively priced below PG&E’s rates. This is insulting to overburdened low-income customers, environmentally unjust, and a “bait and switch” to Renewable 100 customers who are currently paying a premium for the promise of clean, renewable energy. Additionally, three Ava Community Energy cities are “nuclear free zones”: Hayward, Oakland, and Berkeley. This issue is nothing new: the agency sought to take PG&E’s nuclear power several times in 2020. 70% of PG&E’s nuclear offer was rejected by the majority of Community Choice energy programs in California that year. As Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island have shown us, nuclear energy is dangerous and dirty and not just because of deadly nuclear meltdowns. Uranium mining, radioactive waste dumping, and lack of safe, long-term storage put workers, communities, and the environment at risk. This form of energy is not worth the potential fallout. ‘ California has been phasing out nuclear power, since the abrupt closure of San Onofre (San Diego) due to radioactive leaks. In the meantime, the cost of keeping Diablo Canyon open has skyrocketed to over $1 billion a year in losses—guess who is forced to pay for it? We are! PG&E offloads these costs to all customers in their territory, including Ava Community Energy customers and other residents serviced by Community Choice programs. This is done through the Power Charge Indifference Adjustment (PCIA) fee, enabled by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) who act as a rubber stamp body for PG&E. Ava Community Energy and all other Community Choice programs could save tens of millions of dollars in customer costs if Diablo Canyon were to close, as the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility has been urging the CPUC. The CPUC and Governor Gavin Newson have instead extended Diablo Canyon’s contract by 5 years (2030); the projected costs of continuing to run the aging plant are expected to exceed $6 billion and leave workers and communities at risk. Take action to urge Ava Community Energy Board of Directors to reject PG&E's offer of nuclear energy and focus on increasing investments in true local clean energy infrastructure and support the closure of Diablo Canyon and defend us customers from having to shoulder the burden of cost of PG&E’s bad energy investments. *Ava Community Energy (formerly East Bay Community Energy) is an electricity agency that powers Alameda & San Joaquin county cities. The cities currently powered by Ava Community Energy: Albany, Berkeley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Livermore, Newark, Oakland, Piedmont, Pleasanton, San Leandro, Tracy, and Union City. The unincorporated areas of Alameda County (including Ashland, Castro Valley, Cherryland, Fairview, San Lorenzo, and Sunol) are also served by Ava. Electricity service is expected to be delivered to Stockton & Lathrop in 2025. The Ava Community Energy board of directors is made up of elected officials representing the cities and unincorporated county.
oil CEO colluding with governments like Saudi Arabia to keep gas prices high… the fracking companies, were actually colluding directly with OPEC… inflation has been bad in the last few years. And it started in the oil patch
the problem is ordinary people have too much money- Larry Summers
#bidenomics
Thu, May 9, 2024 12:08 AM; Duration: 27:32
Lots of the trash heating up the planet and driving inequality is on hold with the Francis Scott Keys collapse: The port is a big export center for Pennsylvania-mined coal and the nation's largest handler of new cars and light trucks.
60% of coal went out.
NoTHiNg tO SeE hEre! ☀️🏖️
Bloomberg also listed a number of Biden advisors who are not on board with implementing a stricter #climate test for the massive #fossilfuel projects…could add up to 317 #coal plants worth of #carbon emissions to the atmosphere over the coming decade
That list included Biden’s senior energy advisor Amos Hochstein—a particularly influential confidant to the president, who has reportedly “raised concerns” about the economic and geopolitical impacts of a pause.
#100WWSS #RenewablesAreDeflationary #AcceleratingKeelingCurve #StopDeterioratingCarbonSinks #BillionairesDontNeedSubsidiesAndTaxBreak
#ZionistProjectProtectsCarbonBombShippingLanes: Tankers to move fuel cargoes are instead being hired to sail to Asia instead of Europe, sparking a surge in earnings. At the same time, several Iraqi crude shipments have been booked on tankers that will take a thousands-of-miles detour around Africa.
#StopInstallingKleptocratsForResourcesPredation
#PentagonIsTheBiggestEmitter
#BidenAustinBlinkenAreWMDs
#RenewablesAreDeflationary
#AcceleratingKeelingCurve
#ThankGoodnessForYemen
#GenocideJoeKnows
#USAShitShow
#Gaza
A document published with the latest announcement, Civil Nuclear: Roadmap to 2050, is also more about affirming official support than substantively justifying it. More significant—in this supposedly "civil" strategy—are multiple statements about addressing "civil and military nuclear ambitions" together to "identify opportunities to align the two across government."
These pressures are acknowledged by other states with nuclear weapons, but were until now treated like a secret in the UK: civil nuclear energy maintains the skills and supply chains needed for military nuclear programs.
#RenewablesAreDeflationary
#EverythingAboutNuclearWeaponsAreImmoral #WhatCouldCongressDoWith2TrillionDefenseDollars
#BipartisanUpgradeOfTheNuclearArsenalWas1TrillionDollarsIn2016
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-military-nuclear-power-uk.html
#StopDeterioratingCarbonSinks: it is good news that AES Corp. just closed down its Redondo Beach Generating Station, which could put out 1.3 gigawatts of power. Demand for its power had been weak in recent years, except that it was used as a peaker plant when solar sources declined.
So what can replace these dangerous peaker gas plants that threaten the planet with greenhouse gases?
Batteries? Batteries.
And boy does California now have batteries.
Photo by Federico Beccari on Unsplash By Juan Cole / Informed Comment Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The renewables revolution around the world has depended primarily on wind, hydro, and solar. A f…
https://phys.org/news/2023-12-california-greenhouse-gas-emissions.html
California Air Resources Board released a preliminary greenhouse gas inventory suggesting the state's emissions increased slightly last year compared with the previous year… the state's greenhouse gas inventory undercounts emissions in the first place… excludes emissions from a variety of sources, including wildfires and industrial sectors such as shipping, aviation and biofuels.
#15MinuteNeighborhoods
#BeyondEVs #RenewablesAreDeflationary #ParisAlignedBuildingsInsteadOfSprawl #EMicroMobilityReducesEmissionsFastFairFrugalForEssentialWorkers #CARB2022RequiresReducedVMT #UnGlamourousSolutionsAreClimateJustice
California has committed to substantially reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, aiming for carbon neutrality by 2045. The pledge is key to Gov. Gavin Newsom's claims of climate leadership, which featured prominently in his recent visits to China and the United Nations.
Gladwyn d’Souza
