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The Christian Science Monitor reports on legislation proposed by Republican law-makers in Wyoming:
The bill would require utilities to use "eligible resources" to meet 95 percent of Wyoming's electricity needs in 2018, and all of its electricity needs in 2019.
Those "eligible resources" are defined solely as coal, hydroelectric, natural gas, nuclear, oil, and individual net metering.
The latter would encompass houses (and businesses?) with solar, wind or co-generation equipment. Utility-scale generation, however, could face a $10/MWh penalty.
The article notes that
Wyoming is the nation's largest coal producer [...] nearly 90 percent of the electricity generated in Wyoming came from coal in September 2016, the most recent month with available data.
A PDF of the bill, SF0071, is available on the Wyoming legislature's Web site.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 22 2017, @09:01PM
See that is the problem with all the systems. We put our faith in "the system" taking care of the human problems that crop up, but we have to design systems that factor in the human ability to screw things up.
Communism, Capitalism, Socialism, Whateverism, they all fail the human test. Greedy humans will try and subvert the system, we have to build in checks and balances to keep any one person/group from gaining too much power over others. The only clear answer I can come up with is to do away with the pyramid power structure. Redefine management as simply another business role. If you remember your high school group projects then management is the "facilitator" role, they shouldn't be judge jury and executioner. Separation of powers was the smartest move, now we need to reassess government roles and redefine their scope of power.
As for your insult of progressives, realize that conservatives are the opposite. They'll defend the idea of capitalism to their own detriment, looking up to people like Trump as some shining beacon of hope just because he made a lot of money. They also tear down positive systems meant to help people, believing various lies that "capitalists" tell them in an attempt to create new locked-in markets.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 23 2017, @06:41PM
Some of em. Can't really call it a conservative thing though; libertarians lurve it way more than conservatives do. I guess it's just less absolute when you're judging your own preferred system as opposed to one you irrationally despise.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.