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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • This.

    For those not in the industry, the drivers for this are green tags and production tax credits (more common in wind).

    Green tags are basically attaboys for funding the generation of renewable electricity, and are tradable.

    Production tax credits are a $/MWH tax incentive for generating renewable power, and are, again, tradable.

    In both cases, then, there are incentives for renewable projects to keep producing power even when the wholesale power price at the point of interconnection is negative, as there are generation incentives that still make it better than idling.

    From an environmentalist perspective, this is fantastic, as virtually all of this renewable generation represents offset coal and gas peaker plant generation.


  • Most of us on the left here would like nothing better than to be rid of most red states. On the whole, they take more federal tax dollars to prop up than they contribute, and their backwards ass attitudes hold the rest of the country back.

    HOWEVER…

    1. Most progressive voters would rather not abandon all of the disempowered minority groups in those states to their fate.

    2. A “national divorce” as described by the space lasers lady would be incredibly messy and potentially devolve into a war and further violent and messy balkanization of the country.

    3. Finally, having an impoverished, highly inequitable theocracy for a neighbor sounds like a massive headache.