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Just like the UK, the US imposes “renewable” energy and charges consumers for creating an unreliable and costly energy supply

Hope — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 20:00:40 +0000

Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection – the largest regional transmission organisation in the United States, covering all or part of 13 states – has seen a tenfold hike in auction prices for “guaranteed” energy supply.

The grid’s reliance on renewables has created a juggling act, with a backlog of projects waiting for transmission lines and grid storage, leading to higher costs and reduced reliability for consumers.

It appears to be a copycat of the UK’s NESO scam. Is it just a coincidence that a similar plan is being followed on both sides of the Atlantic? Or are we seeing the rollout of a global plan?

As we’re reading Willis Eschenbach’s explanation of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection (“PJM Interconnection” or “PJM”) scheme, bear in mind that it is not only being implemented in the USA. The equivalent in the UK is the National Energy System Operator (“NESO”); as you read through this article, the similarities will become apparent.

NESO is the publicly owned, “independent” body responsible for managing and planning the United Kingdom’s electricity and gas networks. It is owned by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (“DESNZ”), regulated by another UK government department, Ofgem, and funded through consumers’ energy bills.

Just like PJM described below, NESO does not own any transmission assets; it simply balances energy output with consumption and drives the Government’s destructive race towards the “net zero” bottom.

NESO’s primary statutory duties are to help the government meet its net zero targets, ensure security of energy supply for consumers, and promote the efficient and economical transmission and distribution of electricity and gas. Its responsibilities include real-time balancing of the electricity grid, managing the queue for new electricity projects, and producing a Strategic Spatial Energy Plan (“SSEP”) to map the optimal locations and types of energy generation and storage needed to achieve the “clean” power target by 2030. NESO also works to accelerate the deployment of “renewable” energy, collaborating closely with Great British Energy.

For providing their services to the Government, NESO includes a charge on our electricity bills under “network costs.” Its charge for balancing supply and demand accounts for around 2% of the average household electricity bill. Two charges account for just under 50% of our bills – 25% for network costs, including NESO’s charges, and 25% for environmental and social obligation costs.

NESO explains what “environmental and social obligation costs” are. They are costs “paid to larger energy suppliers which have to help pay for government energy policies. These costs cover schemes such as to support energy efficiency improvements in homes and businesses, to help vulnerable people and encourage take-up of renewable technology.”

So around 27% of our monthly energy bills are directly related to NESO and Mad Miliband’s net zero scam.

The Road To Hell Is Paved With Green Intentions

By Willis Eschenbach, as published by Climate Realism on 19 August 2025

Climate Realism Editor’s Note: The media has been talking extensively about New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy’s (D) energy plan, saying that it will do little if anything to “save the planet.” It is a bad idea and will, in fact, unnecessarily raise electricity prices for millions. A few headlines include: ‘Green New Headache: Dems flee gov’s green ‘Energy Master Plan’ as election approaches’, ‘Insane energy policies are set to burn Democrats in New Jersey, New York’, and ‘What Makes Jersey Run: Your growing energy bill is a growing issue in the big governor’s race’.

Sometimes you can’t help but marvel at how much we’re all willing to pay for the illusion of “green progress.” New Jersey decided – like half the country – that climate purity would be achieved by wind turbines, solar panels and endless press conferences declaring victory against bad old fossil fuels. But someone forgot to run the numbers, and now the bill arrives, with a little note attached: “Due immediately. No refunds. See: your monthly utility statement.”

Let’s start with the latest funhouse mirror: PJM’s capacity auction. You’ll see the acronym “PJM” all over any story about electricity markets, grid drama and ratepayer headaches up and down the Eastern seaboard. So what actually is PJM – besides an endless font of regulatory press releases and auction results?

PJM, when it’s at home, stands for Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland Interconnection. Despite the name, it’s not just those three states anymore. It’s now the largest regional transmission organisation (“RTO”) in the United States, covering all or part of 13 states (think New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Illinois, etc.) plus Washington, D.C., stretching from the rust belt to the edge of the South. Its territory spans 65 million people – nearly one-fifth of the country – so what happens in PJM’s control room often decides whether your air conditioner hums or whimpers in August.

But PJM isn’t a power company. It owns no transmission lines, no power plants, no substations. It’s the air traffic controller of the grid – coordinating the flow of electricity across 88,000 miles of high-voltage transmission, managing more than 1,400 power generators and pulling the levers of gigantic energy marketplaces where utilities buy the electrons they deliver to your living room. When you hear about capacity auctions, day-ahead markets, or “grid reliability events,” PJM’s the referee moving pieces around the giant chessboard of supply and demand.

PJM works around the clock – like a cross between NASA’s control room and the pit bosses in Vegas who used to give me the hairy eyeball – tracking generation, monitoring demand in real-time and dispatching power plants to keep everything balanced minute to minute. They’re charged (pun intended) with making sure the lights stay on for hospitals, factories, schools and your midnight TikTok habit. Their holy grail? Reliability and low cost, achieved by – ideally – always calling on the cheapest available source of power and preventing rolling blackouts when the weather or a misbehaving power plant throws a wrench in the works.

Importantly, PJM doesn’t serve customers directly or send you a bill. Your utility – PSEG, JCP&L, Atlantic City Electric and the like – buys power at these massive auctions and passes the costs through to consumers. When PJM’s auctions spike, your rates spike. When the grid creaks due to “renewable integration,” “data centre demand” or “retiring nuclear plants,” PJM rings the alarm bell and shuffles the mix, often asking utilities (and by extension, you) to pay more for reliability.

So next time you see “PJM” in the news, remember: it’s not a company, it’s not a government agency, and it’s not run by mad scientists or Wall Street quants. It’s the big, complicated, non-profit grid manager whose job is to juggle electrons, forecast tomorrow’s peaks, referee the markets, and – hopefully – keep your dinner out of the dark. If they cough or sneeze, everyone from New Jersey to Ohio checks their fuse box – just to be safe.

Now for years, the PJM auction price for “guaranteed” power – the kind that keeps your lights on after sunset – hovered around $29.92 per megawatt-day. That number just jackknifed straight through sanity’s guardrails and into $329.17/MW-day for 2026. That is a tenfold hike.

(Note that the unit of dollar per megawatt-day reflects the market’s annual capacity payment to generators for guaranteeing their availability, regardless of actual energy delivered. The figure is not meant to be directly converted into an energy unit ($/kWh) for retail bills, as it covers standby and reliability commitment, not dispatched energy.)

Utilities don’t swallow those costs; they pass them through like hot potatoes, and suddenly, one fifth of your bill is just “capacity” – meaning “back-up for things that don’t work when it’s cloudy, calm or 5 pm.”

Why the spike? The grid’s been forced into a juggling act worthy of Cirque du Soleil. New Jersey, like every other “green leader,” retires gas plants and nuclear units as a matter of policy, then pins its hopes on renewables that need transmission lines and grid storage which aren’t built yet. There’s a 143 gigawatt backlog – yes, gigawatts, yes, backlog – in PJM’s project queue, most of it wind and solar waiting for bureaucrats, lawsuits, regulatory “streamlining” and continued consumer stupidity. In theory, the state could bathe in zero-carbon glory, but most of these projects are frozen in the interconnection swamp, with offshore wind delayed at least two years and solar farms bottled up behind transmission shortages.

Now toss in the wildcard: the AI/data centre gold rush. What used to be a footnote on the demand page now accounts for 4% of total load in the PJM region – with a straight trajectory to 12% before 2030. Nearly 70% of this year’s price hike? Blame the server farms, chewing through terawatts so your robot butler can hallucinate about cat videos. PJM’s own models now admit overall demand growth has tripled, and may hit 5%/year soon – while new “clean” supply trickles in, stuck on the rails.

And what does all this cutting-edge renewable ambition actually mean for you? By August 2025, residential rates have spiked to 19.74¢ per kWh. The average bill is now $129/month – 20% over the national average, with low-income families choosing between groceries and the privilege of running the water heater. Business owners are seeing $2,800 monthly charges for mid-size operations.

The utility companies will offer you energy-saving tips, maybe a rebate on a smart thermostat, but explain – very quietly – that they’re just forwarding the PJM costs from upstream. Auction results, demand modelling, global fuel instability, renewable delays: all rolled into your statement, no line-item for “wishes.”

Grid modernisation? Sure. The Board of Public Utilities rewrites some rules, pushes for “streamlined” solar connections, and promises to bring everyone into the clean energy fold. But each improvement needs billions for transmission upgrades, “enhanced reliability standards” and, inevitably, more interconnection paperwork, which brings you … more delays and higher costs.

All the while, billions in clean energy projects (offshore wind, storage farms, hydrogen pilots) are being cancelled nationwide – $14 to $22 billion in 2025 alone – due to political uncertainty, people looking hard at the real costs of “renewables,” vanished tax credits and the occasional leadership shuffle. Meanwhile, moratoriums, regulatory drama and lawsuits ensure that, for every “transformative” wind project launched, two more are killed or delayed.

And here’s the kicker: while the advocates chant that “solar and wind are the cheapest forms of energy,” the real world keeps offering up rate hikes, capacity crises and bills that read like a ransom note.

What we’re buying isn’t reliability or affordability – it’s a perpetual promise of future savings, forever in the next quarter, if we’re lucky. So, New Jersey residents get stuck paying for capacity the grid can no longer guarantee, backups for power sources that quit at sunset and transmission lines waiting for someday.

The folly? Instead of getting affordable “clean” energy, ratepayers are underwriting a circus of subsidies and speculative projects whose delays and failures are a matter of public record. When your rates spike, remember: it’s the cost of betting the farm on renewables dependent on fickle weather, bureaucratic magic and a market that values wishful thinking over working electrons.

And when politicians tout the beauty of renewables as prices climb and climb, just ask: how much does hope cost, per kilowatt-hour? Because in New Jersey, you’ll find out on your next power bill, whether you asked for it or not.

My best to everyone.

Source: https://expose-news.com/2025/08/20/charges-consumers-for-renewable-energy/

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While we’re supplied unreliable “renewable” energy, reliable “green” nuclear energy will be supplied for data centres and AI

Hope — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 22:59:18 +0000

AI systems require significant amounts of power to operate, driven by the massive computational resources needed to process and analyse vast amounts of data.

So, will the owners and advocates of AI systems rely on “renewable” wind and solar energy as they expect us to?

No. They are going to use nuclear power.

Why Does AI Require Significant Power?

AI’s insatiable need for power is driven by the complexity and scale of its computational requirements.

AI models are often trained and deployed in data centres, which are massive facilities housing thousands of servers. These servers consume a substantial amount of energy, equivalent to that of 30,000 homes.

AI inference, the process of answering user queries, relies heavily on Graphics Processing Units (“GPUs”). Each inference requires GPU processing power, which uses energy. This demand is expected to increase as more AI models are developed and deployed.

Larger AI models, such as those used in language processing and computer vision, require more computational resources and, consequently, more energy. These models have billions of parameters and rely on massive data sets, further straining energy demands. And as AI adoption grows, so does the need for more powerful infrastructure to support it.

In an own goal for those eager to implement Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals – such as those who eagerly signed the ‘Pact for the Future’, ‘Global Digital Compact’ and ‘Pact for Future Generations’ at the UN Summit of the Future on Sunday – the energy consumption of AI systems contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, so they say, and strains global grids.

In Bloomberg’s podcast below (audio only) published on Tuesday, host David Gura and Bloomberg reporter Josh Saul discuss just what the insatiable AI data centre power needs mean for local communities, energy prices and efforts to switch to “renewables” to combat climate change.

“The big tech companies have set ambitious impressive clean energy goals … almost to a company [they] have said, ‘By 2030 we’re going to be 100% clean energy for our data centres’. But it’s a difficult thing to do because data centres are on all the time, 100% of the time, so to match that to clean energy is hard,” Saul said.

We guess matching large energy requirements 100% of the time is hard to do with “renewable” energy, i.e. wind and solar, because it is unreliable and intermittent.

However, the solution is simple; label nuclear energy as “green” energy. Gura posed the question: “Do they, the tech companies, believe that kind of traditional green energy, do they think that green energy is going to be enough to make up the difference that they need?”

Saul responded, “Well everybody loves nuclear I mean nuclear has gotten so hot, like Joe Rogan talking about nuclear.”

Gura chipped in, “Bill Gates is talking about it now.”

“Everybody. Yeah, everyone’s very excited about nuclear,” Saul said.

Bloomberg Podcast: AI’s Insatiable Needs Wreak Havoc on Power Systems | Big Take, 24 June 2024 (15 mins)

Governments Declare Nuclear as “Green” Energy

Although nuclear energy in the UK has been reducing, the UK government has for a long time actively promoted nuclear energy as a key component of its “green” energy strategy. An article published in the House of Lords Library ahead of a debate in 2021 stated:

The Government has said that new nuclear power is an important part of meeting its carbon reduction target. While the Government emphasises its commitment to renewable energy generation, it argues that ensuring the energy system is reliable means “intermittent renewables need to be complemented by technologies which provide power or reduce demand, when the wind is not blowing, or the sun does not shine.”

One of these technologies, says the Government, is nuclear power. “Delivering new and advanced nuclear power” was the third of ten points listed in the Government’s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, published in November 2020 and reiterated in the Government’s December 2020 energy white paper. The white paper listed offshore wind, nuclear power and hydrogen as key to decarbonising the country’s energy system.

Nuclear power in the UK, House of Lords Library, 1 December 2021

In January 2024, the Conservative government announced plans to quadruple UK nuclear power by 2050, the largest expansion of nuclear energy in 70 years.

Further resources: Nuclear Power in the United Kingdom, World Nuclear Association, 21 May 2024

However, this is not the case in all countries.

In January 2022, while Germany was in the process of shutting down all its nuclear plants, the EU began planning to label energy from nuclear power and natural gas as “green” sources for investment, despite internal disagreement over whether they truly qualify as “sustainable” options.

The EU’s internal market commissioner Thierry Breton said the bloc will need to double its overall electricity production over the next three decades and that “is simply not possible without nuclear power.”

In April 2023, Germany shut down its last remaining nuclear power plant.

In August 2022, the US was divided over whether nuclear power is part of the “green” energy future. “The renewed interest in nuclear comes as companies, including one started by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, are developing smaller, cheaper reactors that could supplement the power grid in communities across the US,” NPR reported.

In April 2024, although Europe remains divided in its approach to nuclear power, delegations from more than 30 countries gathered in Brussels for the first-ever Nuclear Energy Summit. The summit followed an official call at COP28 in Dubai to accelerate nuclear energy alongside other low-carbon energy sources.

Meanwhile, particularly in the UK under the Labour government, unreliable, intermittent wind and solar are being pushed onto the public as their “green” future.

For examples of the “renewable” energy sources governments are pushing onto the public, you can read: ‘Ed Miliband: beating nimbys on green rollout a matter of ‘national security’’ for the UK and ‘Renewable energy’ from the European Environment Agency. There is no mention of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not being publicised as an option for the public. Why is that?

Restart of Nuclear Plant to Power Microsoft Data Centres

On Friday, Axios reported that Microsoft and Constellation Energy had just unveiled a power purchase deal that would enable a restart of a reactor at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear plant.

“The plan to bring a plant associated with an infamous 1979 partial meltdown back online in 2028 blends two big energy trends. One is the voracious energy needed to power data centres, especially as AI grows. The other is proposals to restart mothballed reactors, or delay closures, to meet rising electricity demand with zero-carbon sources,” Axios said.

The “two big energy trends” appear to be closely related and are mutually inclusive.

Technology companies are scouring the nation for power that is both reliable and helps them meet their pledge to fuel AI development with zero-emissions electricity – driving a nuclear power revival, according to The Washington Post.

“If approved by regulators, Three Mile Island would provide Microsoft with the energy equivalent it takes to power 800,000 homes,” The Washington Post said.

In a somewhat disingenuous statement, Microsoft’s Vice President of Energy Bobby Hollis said the deal is a “major milestone in Microsoft’s efforts to help decarbonise the grid in support of our commitment to become carbon negative.”

Constellation plans to invest $1.6 billion to revive the reactor. Constellation sees nuclear energy tax credits in the 2022 climate law as crucial for the project.

Banks Back Nuclear Power

On Monday it was announced that fourteen of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions have publicly pledged their support for the development of more nuclear energy, aiming to triple nuclear capacity by 2050, as outlined in the ‘Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy by 2050’, signed by 25 nations at COP28. The Declaration refers to the Nuclear Energy Agency analysis which shows that a scenario where nuclear energy capacity is tripled by 2050 provides a feasible path to meet net zero, according to the Nuclear Energy Agency.

If nuclear energy provides a path to the much-touted “net zero,” why are governments pushing controversial “renewables” such as wind and solar onto the public? Perhaps “net zero” is a loose term that can mean whatever they want it to mean at any given time, depending on which part of the UN’s Agenda 2030 they are forcing onto the public.

The banks’ commitment to fund nuclear energy that was announced on Monday was made on the sidelines of Climate Week in New York City, where leaders from the global finance community, government representatives and industry executives gathered to discuss the role of nuclear energy in global decarbonisation efforts. Climate Week is an annual event held in partnership with the United Nations General Assembly.

To use Globalist speak, the support of these major financial institutions sends a strong market signal that nuclear energy is not only essential for decarbonisation but also a bankable, viable path forward for sustainable finance.

Why has nuclear, in particular, become so popular with financial institutions?

As Power Engineering noted, “Driven by decarbonisation goals and projected load growth from an artificial intelligence (AI) boom, support for nuclear power has especially increased the last couple of years … Technology giants like Microsoft, Google and Amazon are significantly driving electricity demand, primarily through extensive and rapidly expanding data centre operations. In doing so, they’ve expressed interest in nuclear as a partner.”

Environment and Energy Leader confirmed the same: “The demand for reliable, clean energy continues to grow, particularly in sectors like data centres and artificial intelligence (AI), where electricity consumption is skyrocketing.”

“James Schaefer, Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Securities, emphasised this trend: ‘We’re seeing an enormous demand for clean electrons to power data centres and AI technologies. Nuclear energy is clean, proven and safe – and it’s essential that we accelerate the shift from planned projects to operational plants’.”

What’s Going On?

What this all seems to point to is that it will be largely unreliable and intermittent “renewable” wind and solar power for the public use but the vast amounts of reliable energy required for AI will be obtained from what has now been widely labelled as “green,” “clean” nuclear power.

Source: https://expose-news.com/2024/09/25/while-were-supplied-unreliable-renewable-energy/

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