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Did You Know Pennsylvania Exports More Electricity Than Any Other State?

April 5, 2019 by Paul Crowe

PA exports more electricity than any other state, while California imports the most

Pennsylvania is our country’s leading exporter of electricity according to the United States Energy Information Administration. Electricity routinely flows among the Lower 48 states and, to a lesser extent, between the United States and Canada and Mexico. From 2013 to 2017, Pennsylvania was the largest net exporter of electricity, sending an annual average of 59 […]

GE Power Cuts 12000 Jobs as the Global Company Tries to Regain its Footing

December 7, 2017 by Paul Crowe

GE Power cuts 12,000 jobs

GE Transportation isn’t the only division of the global company having serious issues. GE Power just announced a reduction of 12,000 jobs, about 18 percent of its workforce. The company blames the downsizing on the decreasing demand for coal and fossil fuels caused by increases in alternative energy. Also contributing to the problem was GE’s […]

Green Jobs Disappear When Tax Subsidies End

July 19, 2017 by Paul Crowe

Green energy jobs and projects run on tax dollars

Our county executive, Kathy Dahlkemper, often touts the benefits of wind energy to Erie County citing the many green jobs it will create, but Ontario is a great example of what really happens. It’s a learning experience for those willing to learn. Short term jobs An Ontario factory producing wind turbine blades is closing, ending […]

Totally Unnecessary Billion Dollar Lake Erie Power Line Project Still Moving Ahead

June 30, 2017 by Paul Crowe

ITC Lake Erie Connector, an underwater and underground cable from Canada to Erie County

The ITC Lake Erie Connector received a “Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity” from Canada, one more step in the necessary approval process before beginning construction of a project no one needs. The news release states: The ITC Lake Erie Connector is a proposed 1,000 MW, bi-directional, high-voltage direct current (HVDC) underwater transmission line that […]

Obama’s DOE Gives Last Minute Presidential Permit to Lake Erie Connector

January 13, 2017 by Paul Crowe

Included in the last minute flurry of activity by agencies of the Obama administration, the DOE has issued a presidential permit authorizing the ITC Lake Erie Connector. As noted previously: … the EPA is forcing power plants off line so fast without making any provisions for replacement power that our grid is quickly becoming weak […]

Do Our Local Legislators Do What They Tell Us To Do?

July 12, 2016 by Paul Crowe

Turn off the air conditioning in government offices to set an example

Wouldn’t you like to have legislators acting like they believed what they say? We’re constantly told to save the planet, to use less electricity, to lower our carbon footprint, they even pass laws requiring us to do so and yet, our local, state and federal legislators work in air conditioned comfort and fly on jets […]

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