Italian Energy Giant Invades America: Eating Up the Environment
Enel is an Italian firm that that has filled enough of America with wind turbines to cover two of the nation’s big national parks. But the intermittent, weather-dependent power Enel…
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Italian Energy Giant Invades America: Trespassing Against the Osage Nation
One of the most iconic victories over Enel was won by the Osage Nation, a Native American tribe based in Oklahoma. After receiving permission from the county government, but not…
Italian Energy Giant Invades America: Virtue Signaling
Enel’s home page doesn’t show pictures or even references to natural gas wellheads, coal mines, hydro dams, or nuclear fuel rods that produce the overwhelming majority of its electricity. Yet…
Italian Energy Giant Invades America: The Cheapest Way to Make Expensive Electricity
Coal, natural gas, and nuclear power plants remain necessary as backups for the frequent occasions when the wind and sun—like a flaky employee—won’t work. The more unreliability that is added…
Invenergy: Billionaire Michael Polsky’s Wind Power Colossus
In a 2021 corporate news release, Chicago-based Invenergy claimed to be “the largest privately held global developer, owner, and operator of sustainable energy solutions.” Under the guidance of its founder,…
NextEra Energy: The King of Green Power
For most of its first eight decades, Florida Power and Light (FPL) was a traditional power company. But this had changed by 2010, when FPL rebranded itself as NextEra Energy.
NextEra Energy: The Sierra Wind Turbine Club
Federal wind and solar subsidies for NextEra alone have already exceeded billions of dollars. NextEra is just one of many firms soaking up other people’s money to create trivial amounts…
NextEra Energy: “Exceedingly Rare” Incidents
Needless huge eyesores on the landscape aren’t the only threats presented by weather-dependent power companies. On March 28, 2023, a NextEra-managed wind turbine in rural western New York caught fire.
NextEra Energy: Not So Rare
A “rash of recent wind turbine malfunctions across the US and Europe, ranging from failures of key components to full collapses” and that some “industry veterans say they’re happening more…