Healey looks to make electricity more expensive
After failure of off shore wind contract, Gov doubles down
The state’s suicide pact “green” energy mandate is pushing Governor Maura Healey to double down on off shore wind even as the Department of Public Utilities has now cancelled two projects due to “rising interest rates, inflation, supply chain disruption, and the war in Ukraine” It is always Putin’s fault, never their own.
On Monday DPU cancelled the contract with SouthCoast Wind and utility providers as they did earlier this year with Commonwealth Wind/Avangrid.
Today Healey will announce a three state effort, along with Connecticut and Rhode Island to build even larger off shore wind farms, apparently thinking that economies of scale will be able to compete with Putin and Fed Chair Powell.
Healey said in a statement: “Working together, through this new agreement, we can align our procurements to leverage our collective buying power. We can lower project costs and maximize benefits for ratepayers across the region. And we can increase efficiencies and reduce project risk for offshore wind developers.”
Got it? If we just go bigger, we’ll be fine, don’t you worry.
Avangrid has also cancelled plans with Connecticut and Rhode Island.
In March 2021, Governor Baker signed the anti-energy bill “An Act Creating A Next-Generation Roadmap for Massachusetts Climate Policy” which seeks to cripple Massachusetts productivity by cutting emissions: “The emissions limit shall be at least 50% below the 1990 baseline, the 2040 emissions limit shall be at least 75% below the 1990 level, and a 2050 emissions limit that achieves at least net zero statewide greenhouse gas emissions”
The Act will require “necessary transformations to achieve Net Zero in 2050 touch lives across the Commonwealth”
Including transformations that’ll touch your pocketbook now and for years to come.