Reason electric rates are increasing!
I get sick every time I drive by this new power plant that was just built in a beautiful part of the desert. Everyone who votes for this Green Energy is voting to have energy rates increase by 20% while they think the new alternative energy is going to reduce the cost of energy.
A KFI radio talk show told us two years ago that the electric rates would increase by 20% and they predicted the increase would be caused by the development of the expensive and inefficient Green Energy systems such as the wind turbine generators, solar farms, and the 170,000 mirror systems they put in the desert.
They put those mirrors in the desert right next the the 15 interstate freeway and it is a very depressing sight to see. It is not funny how the government banned offroad vehicles in the exact same area about 15 years ago and then they relocate the tortoises in the same area to build this massive power plant with something like 540,000 mirrors and three towers that look like air traffic towers in what was a beautiful portion of the desert.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility
Regardless of how far they relocate the tortoises they know how to get to their original location and they die trying to get through the fences around what used to be their home. They built two mirror power plants at a cost of something like $4.4 billion for the two and their lifespan is only 20 years.
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, is a solar thermal power project currently under construction in the California Mojave Desert, 40 miles (64 km) southwest of Las Vegas, with a planned gross capacity of 392 megawatts (MW).[3] It will deploy 170,000 heliostat mirrors focusing solar energy on boilers located on centralized solar power towers.[3] The project attracted controversy because of its location on desert habitat considered by wildlife officials and environmentalists to be important for the threatened desert tortoise.[4] Unit 1 of the project was connected to the grid in September 2013 in an initial sync testing.[5]
The project has been developed by BrightSource Energy and Bechtel.[6] The project will cost $2.2 billion and the largest investor in the project is NRG Energy, a generating company based in Princeton, N.J., that has put in $300 million.[7] The project has received a $1.375 billion loan guarantee from the United States Department of Energy. The estimated construction costs for this CSP project ($5,561.00 per KW) fall between the construction costs for coal and nuclear power plants per Synapse Energy Economics.
Politicians play on the Green Energy, the public suck up the lies, and some companies are making hundreds of millions for systems that are too costly, too inefficient, and the cost for the losses are added to your electric bills that are already high.