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
Categories: Saved as HTML
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.
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.
April 2006
May
2019