Environment & Energy

If one monitors the CAISO website as I often do, or simply opens the data pages of the California Energy Commission, one can learn about electricity in the State. My view is that it's unnecessarily ugly.

I lived in California for many years, and if I have an opinion of PSGE it is one of sympathy for operating in a very difficult culture.

People want to complain about the transmission line fires after making sure that more wires than required in a sane system are laced to link redundant and unreliable systems, the most egregious being solar and wind industrial parks carved out of virgin wilderness. I will not applaud chainsaws taken to Joshua Trees to build solar plants advertised as "green," for just one example.

Solar PV energy is not sustainable precisely because of its low energy to mass ratio, and surface area requirements. That trillion dollar fantasy has played out with the result that the planet is in flames.