Mexico abandoned renewable energy. Here’s why CA should, too

Switching 100% to renewable energy increases residents’ electricity prices, increases California’s reliance on other states’ (and countries’) power sources, and decreases energy reliability to intermittent at best. Mexico’s leadership was wise when it “pulled the plug” on green energy in 2020, choosing more affordable/practical natural gas power, posits Ronald Stein. In Fox & Hounds Daily, Stein asserts that California should follow in Mexico’s footsteps. To receive daily updates of new Opp Now stories, click here.

The subsidies for “green” electricity has driven up California’s cost of electricity to be among the most expensive in America, and with decades of bizarre laws and regulations that have contributed to California being a complex regulatory state, Joel Kotlin from NewGeogrpahy summarized the future in the state in his article: The Coronavirus means millennials are more screwed than ever. 

As America recovers from the COVID-19 shelter-in-place mandates, California cannot rid itself from the continuing and state-prescribed high costs of energy that other states are not shackled by, and those elected California officials are doing nothing to effectively and forever resolve the causes of the high energy costs that severely limit the state’s economic base and its potential for improvement.

It’s time for California to align Mexico’s leadership bold move and pull the plug on intermittent renewables as the state needs is continuous uninterruptable electricity that’s reliable and affordable, more than ever.

This article originally appeared in Fox & Hounds Daily. Read the whole thing here.

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