An NBC News item on lost solar energy inadvertently exposes the folly of big-government climate policies such as the Green New Deal, and building mandates. The report also exposes the extent to which the market does not actually support an electrification agenda.
Watch as correspondent Liz Kreutz explains curtailment, which is basically solar energy that is lost for lack of storage space or transmission capacity, and how people in California reacted to a reduction in government incentives for residential solar installation:
LIZ KREUTZ: In recent years the amount of renewable energy curtailed, most of it solar, has skyrocketed, both from oversupply and so-called congestion, when there’s more electricity than the transmission lines in some areas can handle. So far this year the state has already lost out on nearly 2.6 million megawatt hours of renewable…
