From:                                         Steve Grady <ssgrady4@gmail.com>

Sent:                                           Friday, July 26, 2019 10:08 AM

To:                                               RPS, DOER (ENE)

Subject:                                     official comment regarding the DOER RPS regulations

 

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I thought of another comment.  The DOER is already set on their dead end solar road, but maybe we can seed some productive thoughts for the future, when they realize solar isn't working.



Steve Grady

email: ssgrady4@gmail.com

Cell: 508-450-4654



Deadline to Provide Written Comments 

Dear RPS Stakeholder,

The Department of Energy Resources (“DOER”) wishes to notify stakeholders that the deadline to provide written comments on the proposed changes to the RPS Class I (225 CMR 14.00) and RPS Class II (225 CMR 15.00) Regulations has been extended to 5 PM on July 26, 2019. Please submit written comments on the proposed changes to the RPS Class I and RPS Class II regulations to John Wassam electronically to DOER.RPS@mass.gov or via mail to the Department of Energy Resources, 100 Cambridge Street, Suite 1020, Boston, MA 02114.

Copies of the proposed regulations may be obtained from the DOER website www.mass.gov/doer or by contacting DOER at DOER.RPS@mass.gov.   

Department of Energy Resources



Submit to DOER:   John Wassam

                               Department of Energy Resources

                               100 Cambridge St, Suite 1020

                                Boston, MA  02114

Good morning,

This is an official comment regarding the DOER RPS regulations:

DELETE 225 CMR 14, 15 & 16 AND START OVER.

Why do we hate solar?  Because it has a Capacity Factor of 13.35%.  Because it is tax exempt under chapter forty fifth.  Because it requires Square Miles of land.  Because it requires spending Billions on transmission infrastructure.  Because it requires burning natural gas to mask its intermittency.  Because it will never save the earth from excessive CO2.  The negative list is endless.

Why does the DOER not favor nuclear?  Because of public perception?  Because of political bias?  

Consider that nuclear releases no CO2, no greenhouse gasses, no soot, no particulates and produces gigawatts not a few kilowatts of base load electricity.

Nuclear safety technology has advanced dramatically since Pilgrim was constructed.  Today's Advanced Nuclear power plants should be considered renewable if they consume existing nuclear waste and render existing weapons grade plutonium harmless.  Pilgrim was old technology and yet it operated safely for 47 years.  It provided 14% of Massachusetts electricity without damaging the environment.  Why does the DOER celebrate the shut down of Pilgrim?  Why does the DOER openly promote solar PV while quietly building natural gas plants?

 

The worst nuclear tragedy was preventable.  The worst nuclear tragedy actually proves that nuclear is the safest & cleanest form of energy production.  Coal kills 100,000 people every year.  Chernobyl is the only nuclear accident to cause fatalities (28), that is less that 1 person per year.  Fear of nuclear kills more people than nuclear.

Health effects of the Chernobyl accident: an overview

April 2006

https://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/backgrounder/en/

Renewable Energy and Electricity  

May 2019

 https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/renewable-energy-and-electricity.aspx

Steve Grady

email: ssgrady4@gmail.com

Cell: 508-450-4654