Comments on: Kansas Ignores Koch Brothers, Keeps Renewable Energy Standard

By: North Carolina Notches A Win Against ALEC Anti-Renewables Effort

North Carolina Notches A Win Against ALEC Anti-Renewables Effort — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:10:09 +0000

[…] a grueling war between renewables and fossil fuel in multiple battleground states. Kansas has also voted to retain its RES, but legislation to water down or kill RES targets have legitimate prospects in at least […]

By: Polluter Watch

Polluter Watch — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:52:00 +0000

Premature victory announcement. This bill is being discussed in the Kansas House again tomorrow, and it will likely move from there:

http://ecowatch.org/2013/koch-brothers-srenewable-energy/

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:50:00 +0000

Yep, the cheapest in many places actually.

By: One Fly

One Fly — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:58:00 +0000

Kansan’s please go read this. Everybody go read this. Wind generation is the cheapest energy source. Shown by a study commissioned by the state of Kansas. It’s amazing actually.

http://kansasenergy.org/documents/PS-KEIN_KansasWindReport_1112.pdf?utm_source=Wind_Report&utm_medium=link&utm_content=Homepage&utm_campaign=Wind_RPS

By: MrEnergyCzar

MrEnergyCzar — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:08:00 +0000

Are they going to fight corn ethanol in Iowa?

By: MrEnergyCzar

MrEnergyCzar — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 03:06:00 +0000

Kansas and wind? Never happens there. Isn’t coal better for the children’s health? The coal industry didn’t spend enough money to buy votes….

By: Neil Blanchard

Neil Blanchard — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:48:00 +0000

They may just get to 20% well ahead of schedule! The whole wind corridor from Texas up to the Dakotas could easily power the entire lower 48 states several times over; let alone the whole state of Kansas.

Mailbox money for everybody – except the Koch brothers…

Neil

By: Otis11

Otis11 — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:03:00 +0000

So if they need 20% of peak demand supplied by renewable, why wouldn’t they simply attack the peak? Install a bunch of solar!

Honestly in Kansas wind is probably a better overall strategy as, IIRC, Kansas is one of the states that can generate more power from wind than the entire state consumes, but from a purely numbers perspective it’s not attacking the numbers directly…. just curious why they did it that way.

Anyway, good that they kept it. No matter where you stand, stability is a big issue. I say they draw attention away from the 20% in 2020 by pushing for 40% by 2025 and 80% by 2030. Once they get those push for 100% by 2040. While I’d prefer to see it done sooner, I think that’s actually a perfectly reasonable time table to do it with negligible cost impacts to the electricity consumers.

By: Marshall Harris

Marshall Harris — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 02:00:00 +0000

Kansas, please kick the Koch Bros, Heartland, and ALEC out of your state. Go on you for maintaining a reasonable law over giving into pressure from them.

By: sean

sean — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:29:00 +0000

introduce a bill to support additional energy generation, enable Kansas to become an energy exporter, secure their energy future with 40% minimum renewables

By: sean

sean — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 00:23:00 +0000

too bad there wasn’t a counter bill to increase to 40%, go on the offensive so to speak

By: agelbert

agelbert — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 23:36:00 +0000

Kansas definitely neeeds to send the Koch snakes and their bought and paid for astroturf lobbyists packing.

And Grover Norquist should be serving life for treason. If conspiracy to beggar the American people on behalf of corporations isn’t treason, I don’t know what is.

By: speller

speller — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:59:00 +0000

*Grover