{"id":13663,"date":"2012-04-05T11:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T15:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13663"},"modified":"2012-04-10T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T17:41:12","slug":"nevada-green-energy-initiative-spends-over-400000-to-save-less-than-3000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13663\/nevada-green-energy-initiative-spends-over-400000-to-save-less-than-3000\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Green Energy Initiative Spends Over $400,000 to Save Less than $3,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clean energy is the dream that refuses to die. From the Obama Administration on down, liberal politicians throughout the nation are constantly promising &#8220;green jobs&#8221; boomlets, acting as though the only thing standing between a better future where energy is both cleaner and more affordable is political will and obstructionist special interests. In reality, the real hurdle to achieving their dream is substantially higher: the economics just don&#8217;t work out. A recent initiative in Nevada shows the complete fiscal folly underpinning clean tech. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2012\/mar\/30\/nv-energy-windmill-program-generates-rebates-littl\/?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell\" target=\"_blank\">From the Las Vegas Sun<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The electricity produced by NV Energy\u2019s $46 million wind rebate program has fallen far short of expectations.<\/p>\n<p>In a startling example, the city of Reno\u2019s wind turbines \u2014 for which the city received more than $150,000 in rate-payer funded rebates \u2014 produced dramatically less electricity than the manufacturers of its turbines promised.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rgj.com\/article\/20120314\/NEWS\/303130076\/Reno-windmills-not-living-up-manufacturers-claims\">As first reported by the Reno Gazette-Journal<\/a>, one turbine that cost the city $21,000 to install saved the city $4 on its energy bill. Overall, $416,000 worth of turbines have netted the city $2,800 in energy savings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That means that the savings from the Nevada program have equaled only about 2\/3 of 1% of the cost of installing the turbines. Remind me again, isn&#8217;t the oft-cited goal for this new era of technological progress to promote science <em>and math?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clean energy is the dream that refuses to die. From the Obama Administration on down, liberal politicians throughout the nation are constantly promising &#8220;green jobs&#8221; boomlets, acting as though the only thing standing between a better future where energy is both cleaner and more affordable is political will and obstructionist special interests. In reality, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3319,3323,2006,3318,1551,3467],"class_list":["post-13663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-clean-tech","tag-energy-policy","tag-environmental-policy","tag-green-energy","tag-nevada","tag-wind-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13663"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13720,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13663\/revisions\/13720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}