The little break I have been getting on my electric bill is being phased out due to the reopening of the ALCOA plant in Massena....Cheap power allocated to the plant had been credited to small business electric users over the past year or so...
That bit of economic democracy is ending according to a letter today from National Grid and NY Power Authority Chairman Richard Kessel.
Nice while it lasted but now the power must go back to the big corporations.
Have you ever heard the political class talk about the importance of small business to the American economy ?
For a few months I was actually believing that.
(By the way, small business owners already pay more for juice than homeowners including a sales tax twice that of residential
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Don't forget Mr. Mayor that the honest truth lies in the fact that wind power costs 3 to four times what other power costs. National Grid has already committed to buying some of Richie's designer electricity.
New York has committed to a very expensive, far from green, lobby lobster energy program juiced up with subsidies that mostly head for the United Kingdom and China. The sacrifice is our North Country home values and seasonal-tourism lifestyle and incredible Lake and River tax base which amounts to 40% of Jefferson county.
The NYPA and all other authorities are bracing you for that fact and making excuses.
It is OK to believe in big foreign wind but prepare yourself for the consequences to St. Lawrence, Jefferson and Oswego Counties.
If you think you have a crow problem now, wait until the little suckers head to the big city to escape the dangers of industrial wind.
Mayor Graham,
Stand by for rates to get higher still and for your level of service to decrease. National Grid announced today that is laying off 1,200 employees because it cannot recover a $200MM shortfall in a rate increase, yet it will be forced to continue to integrate and purchase high cost wind power which must eventually be billed to the end consumer.
Q: Does anybody know how much National Grid has paid for wind power over the past five years or how much the company has paid wind projects to curtail production during periods of high wind? A: More than the cost of 1,200 jobs it is cutting as of today. Wind is not the only reason for these cuts, but is a significant and growing contributing factor to power economics.
It will be interesting to see how unions and IDAs view wind in the context of higher rates hurting small and large businesses and thousands of people loosing jobs.
No free lunch on wind. Quite the contrary - wind makes lunch about as expensive as it can get.
Sincere best of luck to those victims of uniformed policy makers. JG
I see we have WileytheWindHater and friends back. I kinda missed them. Don't worry, from what I've been reading you guys in the Cape are nowhere near progress on this issue. I don't really know if you're telling the truth that wind energy is expensive. The same argument has been used against nuclear. Now we wish we had built more of them, like Europe has. New technology is always more expensive. Burning coal is cheap.
MrG. What is a "uniformed policy maker?" Is that like a General or something who decides whether the wind can blow?
I don't know, guys. If you hate the wind so much, it makes sense to resist it. Please try not to get in fistfights like we heard about last week. This entire issue hasn't really done much for the image of CV. I don't understand all the emotion, not when you already have a million spinners right in front of your face. What's a few more? And the most pressing issue, your miles of trailers and the lack of sewage treatment along the river, you ignore. I just don't understand.
Actually, the idea that a business with energy needs equivalent to a single family home, getting to pay the same rate as a giant user located a stones throw from the producer...that's socialism.
You might want to look into who is getting the rest of that hydro power at cheap rates. (hint: they are the ones that supposedly subsidize the north country with taxes.)
Why can't we burn cow manure, and then it wouldnt have to be spread and make the air smell? Each home could have a small moo poo burner, with a showel nearby for product in , ashes out. ahh
People do not demand good government or cheap electricity made properly. they piss and moan quietly and then pay the bill . Have to had it to the Egypians. at least they have the guts to stand up for something
One of the reasons the Lewis Co. legislators never signed on to the windpower supplied electricity is that the hydo produced power they were buying was cheaper. Yup all businesses, big or small pay higher rates than homeowners. My father bought a farm without the farmhouse and they made him pay a commercial rate which was almost double the rate he would have payed if the house had come with the farm. By the way, take a good look at your electric bills. It's not the electricity that cost you the real money. it's all the other crap tacked on.
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