{"id":330604,"date":"2024-05-30T09:44:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330604"},"modified":"2024-05-30T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T07:44:18","slug":"claim-bidens-clean-energy-policies-are-failing-because-everyone-elses-fault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330604","title":{"rendered":"Claim: Biden\u2019s Clean Energy Policies are Failing Because Everyone Elses Fault"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MIT Innovation Fellow and former Biden economic advisor Brian Deese explaining why everyone should be doing more to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

The Next Front in the War Against Climate Change<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Brian Deese<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clean-energy investment in America is off the charts\u2014but it still isn\u2019t translating into enough electricity that people can actually use.By Brian Deese<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because even though unprecedented sums of money are flowing into clean energy, our current electricity system is failing to meet Americans\u2019 demand for clean power. If we don\u2019t fix it, the surge in investment will not deliver its full economic and planetary potential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For decades, the biggest obstacle to clean energy in the U.S. was insufficient demand. That is no longer the case. The problem now is the structure of our electricity markets:<\/strong> the way we produce and consume electricity in America. We need to fix that if we want the biggest clean-energy investment in history to actually get the job done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many utilities, however, won\u2019t prioritize installing batteries<\/a>, and they won\u2019t invest in solutions that let consumers do more with less energy.<\/strong> That\u2019s because<\/a>these programs lower utilities\u2019 capital expenditures, which lowers the rates they charge consumers and, in turn, their profits. If utilities don\u2019t get paid for innovating, they\u2019re unlikely to do it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a policy level, this isn\u2019t rocket science. In Australia, households are<\/strong> paid<\/strong><\/a> for sending electricity back into the grid<\/strong>. Lo and behold, Australia today has the highest<\/a> rate of rooftop solar panels per capita of any country. In the U.S., state legislatures and regulators in places as varied as Utah<\/a> and Hawaii<\/a> have figured out how to pay households to install batteries and send electricity back to the grid. Last year, Montana<\/a> unanimously passed a law that gave utilities a financial incentive to use more advanced materials in their transmission lines. But these remain the exceptions to the rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shifting this approach will not happen without a new vocabulary and new coalitions. The climate movement<\/strong> must recognize that its primary target is no longer just Big Oil; it\u2019s the regulatory barriers that keep clean energy from getting built and delivered efficiently to American homes. The movement also needs to pressure Big Tech companies<\/strong>, whose AI offerings are driving up<\/a>energy demands, to follow through on their lofty climate talk by supporting reform in the utility system as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026Read more:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2024\/05\/climate-change-investment-utilities\/678455\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

According to his bio, Brian Deese<\/a> is an innovation fellow at MIT, who served as director of the White House National Economic Council from 2021 to 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How many times have we read or heard left wing politicians and academics whining others didn\u2019t do enough to help?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big Tech companies don\u2019t want to invest in more grid capacity, they want co-located nuclear reactors<\/a>, to minimise their exposure to the USA\u2019s incompetently managed electricity grid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody is investing in batteries at anything like the required scale because batteries are too expensive. Battery capital costs make nuclear reactors look cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saving energy is a bad joke in the context of the AI revolution \u2013 you can have an AI powered future, or you can save energy, but you cannot have both<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for citing Australia as an example, that is the biggest joke of the whole article. Citing the Australian grid as aspirational is an utter absurdity. An Australian state government just cut a deal to pay a single coal plant $225 million per year to stay open<\/a>, in a desperate bid to stave off a total collapse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep down I suspect Brian Deese knows his precious green energy revolution will not survive the AI revolution \u2013 which is likely why he devoted a paragraph to abusing tech giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The skyrocketing demand of the AI revolution is the final nail in the coffin of green energy.<\/a> What we are watching now is its death throes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saving energy is a bad joke in the context of the AI revolution \u2013 you can have an AI powered future, or you can save energy, but you cannot have both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":330606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691827993,691818056,691828871,691818772],"class_list":{"0":"post-330604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-clean-energy-policies","9":"tag-climate-change","10":"tag-electricity-markets","11":"tag-u-s-president-joe-biden","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/OIG-71.jpeg?fit=1024%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1o0k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208064,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=208064","url_meta":{"origin":330604,"position":0},"title":"BlackRock, Beijing, have stakes in Biden\u2019s anti-fossil energy plan","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"11\/07\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Following up on Joe\u2019s \u201cas long as it takes,\u201d response to a press reporter\u2019s question at the June 28 NATO summit in Madrid regarding how long American drivers should be prepared to endure premium gasoline penalties, his top economic advisor highlighted the key reason this pump pain patience is so\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0chinas-strange-endorsement-of-net-zero.jpg?fit=909%2C527&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0chinas-strange-endorsement-of-net-zero.jpg?fit=909%2C527&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0chinas-strange-endorsement-of-net-zero.jpg?fit=909%2C527&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0chinas-strange-endorsement-of-net-zero.jpg?fit=909%2C527&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":205332,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=205332","url_meta":{"origin":330604,"position":1},"title":"Why Biden Keeps Lying About Energy","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"22\/06\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Paul Homewood From Michael Shellenberger: Just moments ago, President Joe Biden\u00a0admitted, for the first time, \u201cWe need more refining capacity,\u201d in reference to the gasoline, diesel, and other energy\u00a0shortages\u00a0that are contributing significantly to inflation. But he then added, \u201cThis idea that [the oil and gas firms] don\u2019t have oil\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0image-53.png?fit=787%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0image-53.png?fit=787%2C750&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0image-53.png?fit=787%2C750&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0image-53.png?fit=787%2C750&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":423120,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=423120","url_meta":{"origin":330604,"position":2},"title":"Trump withdraws from UN Framework Convention; ends illusion we\u2019ll always have Paris","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"25\/01\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"President Trump is withdrawing the United States from 66 intergovernmental organizations he has determined are \u201ccontrary to the interests of the United States.\u201d This is a big deal, especially the president\u2019s decision to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the foundational treaty for global climate policy.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AQOV1Ly_K6eqvIzDNauSgjSgzLJNmQSFah47CxlkRa7BXNUyW5gTuT0eCKMDeTlD5BkevoY7UzeabJGEBRjbqq4IXWIyezPeVI9K7tlmxHQkYg1Wa7etac7uyJrxeYwa.jpeg?fit=1200%2C891&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":256831,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=256831","url_meta":{"origin":330604,"position":3},"title":"Right, Washington Times, EPA\u2019s Appliance Regulations Considerably \u2018Lower Performance\u2019","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"10\/05\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Washington Times\u00a0published a story detailing the \u201cavalanche of energy rules,\u201d pushed by the Biden administration \u201cto turn entirety of homes green.\u201d As the story explains manufacturers warn the rules will reduce the performance of these appliances, leaving clothes and dishes dirtier, for example.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00EPAAfter.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00EPAAfter.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00EPAAfter.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00EPAAfter.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/00EPAAfter.jpg?fit=1200%2C900&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":222511,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=222511","url_meta":{"origin":330604,"position":4},"title":"The Saudis Snub Biden Again","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"06\/10\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"If you think oil prices are high now, just wait!","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-285.png?fit=1005%2C506&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-285.png?fit=1005%2C506&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-285.png?fit=1005%2C506&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-285.png?fit=1005%2C506&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":204935,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=204935","url_meta":{"origin":330604,"position":5},"title":"The Democrats\u2019 Energy Disaster","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"19\/06\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Paul Homewood The New York Sun exposes the inherent contradictions in Biden\u2019s green agenda: Biden demands energy companies invest tens of billions more in new drilling infrastructure, when everyone knows that tomorrow, when prices recede, Democrats are going to go right back to passing laws and regulations that undercut\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0image-44.png?fit=693%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0image-44.png?fit=693%2C768&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/0image-44.png?fit=693%2C768&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330604"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330608,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330604\/revisions\/330608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/330606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}