Long Island wind power is yet another green screwjob — forcing New Yorkers to pay more than DOUBLE for energy

Gov. Kathy Hochul’s green-energy lunacy keeps socking New Yorkers, pinch nan latest rustle coming from nan Empire Wind One offshore turbine project. 

Team Trump has blocked it for now, and that’s awesome news (despite Eric Adams’ pleading that it should spell forward): If it went into operation, New Yorkers would beryllium forced to salary a brain-busting 2.5 times nan marketplace complaint for energy, an independent study found.

The task won a sweetheart statement to supply power astatine $155 per megawatt hour, arsenic opposed to nan wholesale-market complaint of astir $50, an effective subsidy connected nan bid of $9 cardinal complete nan life of nan facility. 

Taxpayers will spot their bills soar. 

Why connected earth, you mightiness ask, is that jacked-up complaint moreover connected nan table?

Because nan New York Independent System Operator, nan entity successful complaint of nan state’s powerfulness grid, is mandated to bargain “green” power complete cheaper and much reliable state aliases nuclear. 

Under Andrew Cuomo’s insane Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, New York has to move to 70% renewable power by 2030, and 100% zero-emissions power by 2040. 

Neither of those goals will beryllium met, of course. 

And moreover if they were, it would make virtually nary quality successful mitigating ambiance change, arsenic greenhouse-gas output continues to emergence unhindered elsewhere successful America and from China, nan world’s biggest emitter. 

All nan rule and related policies will do is put ever-tighter squeezes connected New Yorkers successful pursuit of star and upwind power and severely limit nan disposable proviso of power, boosting nan consequence of blackouts. 

Lose-lose-lose, successful different words. 

Wind and star are good arsenic constricted backups, but they can’t, and won’t, switch fossil fuels and atomic power successful nan today’s system immoderate clip soon. 

It’s precocious clip nan ambiance radicals admit this and clasp an abundance schedule — and extremity hurting mundane New Yorkers successful nan sanction of their imagination ideology.