Asking again for clarification on your analysis @jrfhanger.bsky.social

For ex, right now when I look at PECO suppliers for fixed rate and sort by price, lowest one is $0.0689/kWh. But add in that plan's monthly fee and, assuming 500 kWh/mo as you did, get adjusted price $0.1594. Lowest such adjusted price is another plan, $0.0729 with no monthly fee. Which did you use?

Can you share your data on the retail supplier prices for 2025? If not, can you say how determined the values given for the retail suppliers? What is annual averaging? Was it a snapshot? Did you look at $/kWh price or estimated monthly bill (including any monthly fees)?

Kudos for asking McKibben about his groups' opposition to nuclear in NYS. His answer is total BS though. He claims not to know anyone saying nuclear is too risky, and yet that's exactly his groups' position. Why can't he take any responsibility here? Why not say he'll course correct?

Why are two of Bill McKibben's own organizations, 350 and Third Act, actively opposed to new nuclear plants in New York State?

Of course, the left critics raise plenty of good points in their critiques as well. We agree with these critics in large part! Anyone trying to paint the intellectual terms of debate as "Klein & Thompson, good or bad?" is doing a disservice to everyone, but it gets Likes.

In particular, if "Abundance authors don't recognize the power of the New Deal" is a critique of the book that appeals to you, then read the various concrete counterpoints we offer. The sad truth is Klein, Thompson, et al are right to identify barriers w/in progressivism itself.

Is your position then that privatization, at least of the transmission system, might be a positive change? I noticed you guys didn't sign on that letter from various other groups opposing it.

2. Decarbonization as a longterm goal = eventually need to replace the gas (nuclear, geothermal, gas+CCS, hydrogen). That something’s big competitor is precisely the solar/storage/gas combo. Establishing the clean alternative to gas probably requires reshaping market rules favoring solar/gas today.

For more neoliberal center-left Abundance stans:

1. Private independent solar power producers’/asset managers’ interests are not going to be neatly aligned with clean, reliable energy abundance. Be warned.

If the left analysis goes no further than "sticks vs de-risking subsidies" and openly embraces all of the above, maybe the left is fetishizing the particular consumer product too much, at the expense of clear thinking.

There will then be a political fight over the prices paid for exported solar energy, just as there have been in California and Germany, with the affluent and greens arguing for protected higher subsidies. All the while people pay to upgrade utility infra to support it.

This will add to new home costs; will necessitate means tested loans for buyers; will create a vampiric dependency on solar services firms to make the most of the panels; and will require subsidies from utility rate base to compensate exported energy, whose value decreases the more there is.