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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 06/22/2023
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** Biden administration and blue states use regulatory mandates to outlaw a popular consumer appliance using junk science as a justification. Media: "Republicans Pounce!"
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Sacramento Bee ([link removed]) (6/20/23) reports: "No one from the federal government is going to come into your home and take away your gas stove. But Republicans and Democrats are making the fate of gas stoves the latest front in the raging political culture wars. It is a preview of the kind of rhetoric likely to persist throughout the 2023-24 campaign season.. Why gas stoves? Because they’re an appliance used every day in millions of kitchens. The GOP saw it’s opening in January, when Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News that a gas stove ban was 'on the table.' Trumka explained that only new gas stoves would be banned. But the Washington firestorm was ignited. So to Republicans, the threat of losing the appliances, however remote, shows that the Biden administration wants to control your kitchen. To Democrats, putting curbs on natural gas is crucial to their efforts to halt climate change and
promote energy efficiency. For two days this week in the House, and coming soon to the Senate, the war was on. 'Republicans stand with the American people, who overwhelmingly agree that banning gas stoves altogether is an egregious overreach and government-knows-best ideology at its worst,' said Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Florida, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. And, GOP leaders warned, a gas stove ban would be another example of an arrogant Democratic Party eager to deny people freedom of choice."
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** "As each energy policy failure is used as proof of the need to double down, leaders have resorted to increasingly totalitarian tactics, careening much of the region toward a system of government with more than a whiff of communist characteristics."
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– Doomberg, Substack ([link removed])
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Today's green movement: nationalizing the grid, seizing private property, and destroying nature.
** Bloomberg ([link removed])
(6/22/23) reports: "The agency tasked with overseeing the electricity grid should move faster to improve planning and coordination for building out transmission across the country, according to an updated analysis from several environmental organizations. 'We needed planning and cost allocation yesterday,' said Jill Tauber, vice president of litigation for climate and energy at Earthjustice. 'We’re hoping to see final rules come out soon' from FERC that touch on those issues, she added. Congress has a role to play as well, particularly when it comes to expanding and expediting FERC’s siting authority over projects, especially high-voltage interstate projects, according to the groups, which include Earthjustice, the Environmental Defense Fund, League of Conservation Voters, and WE ACT for Environmental Justice. Several bills are percolating in Congress related to siting and amending the Federal Power Act. But there’s much FERC and the Energy Department can do without Congress when it comes
to building transmission lines to carry and connect clean energy across regions, the groups argue."
How DARE you fact-check Special K on his climate change claptrap!
** Washington Examiner ([link removed])
(6/20/23) reports: "John Kerry was hit with an ethics complaint Tuesday alleging he 'disregarded' scientific evidence on climate issues. Protect the Public's Trust filed the complaint against the Biden administration's special presidential envoy for climate, detailing a May 10 speech in which Kerry claimed 15 million people perish every year due to greenhouse gas emissions.' 'This claim is both tremendously consequential and entirely unsupported by scientific evidence,' the letter to State Department and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy officials states. PPT is calling for an investigation into Kerry's comments for violating the Biden administration's scientific integrity policies and are asking the government to 'adequately correct the public record and deter similar hysterical claims in the future.'...'There are few more perilous breaches of scientific integrity than for public officials to convey inaccurate data to the public knowingly or recklessly, especially when it
is done to justify politically motivated decisions or agendas,' PPT Director Michael Chamberlain told the Washington Examiner. 'Simply put, hysteria, hyperbole, and misrepresentation of data have no place in our government’s official pronouncements.' PPT's letter countered Kerry's claims with data with some of the most far-reaching death toll predictions in scientific literature, which claim the globe could see 3.4 million deaths per year by 2100, which is both significantly less than Kerry's prediction and also 77 years from now. Many of the deaths are attributed to wildfires and mosquito-borne illnesses."
We can duck the duck curve by ditching intermittent mandates.
** EIA ([link removed])
(6/21/23) reports: "As more solar capacity has come online in California, grid operators at the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) have observed a drop in net load (or the demand remaining after subtracting variable renewable generation) in the middle of the day when solar generation tends to be highest. When graphed for a typical day, the pattern created by the midday dip in the net load curve, followed by a steep rise in the evenings when solar generation drops off, looks like the outline of a duck, so this pattern is often called a duck curve. As solar capacity in California continues to grow, the midday dip in net load is getting lower, presenting challenges for grid operators. Grid operators constantly balance electricity generation with electricity demand in a region. Demand is lowest overnight, when most consumers are sleeping and when many businesses are closed. Demand begins to ramp up in the morning as people wake up and businesses start opening. Demand stays elevated
throughout the day, rises slightly in the evening as people come home from work and residential electricity consumption increases, and then drops off again in the late evening. Unlike conventional power plants (for example, nuclear, coal-fired, and natural gas-fired plants), solar and wind resources can’t be fully dispatched at will to help meet demand, and utilities may have to curtail them to protect grid operations. Solar power is only generated during daylight hours, peaking at midday when the sun is strongest and dropping off at sunset. As more solar capacity comes online, conventional power plants are used less often during the middle of the day, and the duck curve deepens."
Energy Markets
WTI Crude Oil: ↓ $70.34
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Heating Oil: ↓ $249.00
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