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What Energy Subsidies Really Look Like
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Typically, the US subsidizes technology like electricity, telephone, or internet access to support the public good, not to pick winners or losers or reward a specific industry.

However, the recent administration has cancelled subsidies for technology they don’t like (or that has interfered in the President’s private affairs, like wind and solar near his golf courses). Such private grievances have typically not been seen in public policy.

The US policy under this President supports coal and nuclear energy and undermines solar and wind. This has been well documented.

However, what does such government policy actually cost us, the taxpayers?

How about $950 million in taxpayer funds? These funds were issued by the US Department of Energy to refurbish 11 coal plants (most of these plants were closed or closing due to age).

Add $860 million because grid operators were forced to issue operational orders to run these plants at higher-than-market costs.

Over $1 billion wasted on technology and pollution from power plants that are not economically or environmentally competitive.

Realgy Energy Services is a registered Retail Energy Marketer serving commercial customers in the states of Illinois, and Indiana. We offer Service Plans that will provide electric and natural gas at wholesale pricing direct to customers without any utility markup. Our Service Plans work with the local utility to provide seamless service and annual energy savings. Service Plans include Guaranteed SavingsTM, ManagedPriceTM, ManagedGreenTM Index, Fixed and PriceAssuranceTM.

Realgy owns and operates 12 solar plants in Illinois and is looking to invest in additional locations. Our newest PV System is located at the Highland Park West Ridge Center – Highland Park West Ridge Rec PV Center

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How much are Trump’s pro-coal policies costing us? | Canary Media

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The Most Efficient Solar Panel Is Coming, and It’s Tandem!
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Solar energy is renewable, inexhaustible, and the most abundant energy in the world. Of course, it powers nearly all life on our planet.

Sunlight is composed of 2 main energy light sources: red and blue light.

Current PV systems capture the red light. The blue light could be captured by a new kind of solar cell called perovskite (named after the mineral). Perovskite, unlike PV, can be painted onto glass. The challenge has been to make it durable enough to be deployed in the real world for 25 years, as you can with PV systems.

However, the goal of increasing solar power efficiency has eluded scientists for decades. Photosynthesis (plants capture sunlight and turn it into energy) is around 0.2% efficient. Current PV solar panels are 23% efficient. Perovskite theoretically could be 50%. For each 1% increase in solar efficiency (you produce more electricity) in the same space and with the same costs of labor and equipment, the economics of the project improve substantially.

So, using perovskite to increase solar energy cell efficiency from 23% towards 50% is the holy grail of solar energy.

Over the last 10 years, the goal has changed. Don’t replace PV, but add perovskite to PV. That is, put the perovskite layer over the PV layer, and you generate nearly double the energy production per panel! These so-called tandems are finally being manufactured at scale.

This is an American breakthrough. Chinese companies have dominated PV energy since the early 2000s. This technology and the advanced manufacturing required give American companies a technological advantage.

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Electric truck sales, soaring?
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The news is all about rising diesel prices. Consider that 90% of what we consume is transported, and 90% of what is transported is moved by diesel. You will get a picture of why inflation is increasing and likely to continue.

However, as the chart below shows, the price of diesel is up nearly 65% this year, while electricity is up about 8%.

If you are buying a truck, which would you want to fuel it with?

The answer is becoming increasingly electric.

Political tension and war may have accelerated the rise of diesel. The long-term effects are clear: it will continue.

This has implications. As the world shifts transportation fuel to electricity, the environmental, along with cost, impact will be greater.

Electricity can be produced more efficiently than using diesel in trucks and at a lower cost.

EV adoption will continue and could help reduce inflation and the environmental impacts of climate change.

Realgy Energy Services is a registered Retail Energy Marketer serving commercial customers in the states of Illinois, and Indiana. We offer Service Plans that will provide electric and natural gas at wholesale pricing direct to customers without any utility markup. Our Service Plans work with the local utility to provide seamless service and annual energy savings. Service Plans include Guaranteed SavingsTM, ManagedPriceTM, ManagedGreenTM Index, Fixed and PriceAssuranceTM.

Realgy owns and operates 11 solar plants in Illinois and is looking to invest in additional locations. Now 12 with the inclusion of Highland Park newest recreation center West Ridge Center – New Community Recreation Facility Coming in 2026 | Park District of Highland Park

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https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-fleets/diesel-prices-electric-truck-sales?amp%3Butm_medium=email&amp%3Butm_campaign=canary&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8_ZU-KqqRm9HbuNcleX314wK7BlTyW1H9lkStFlcQtkB-LWb-CNWQnXBk1m8KHvllEXKRqK7AMi5KBJuaIy1r0aNeQFA&_hsmi=442241093&utm_source=newsletter

https://eprinc.org/u-s-diesel-price-spikes-and-why-an-export-ban-would-backfire/

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