Climate change: California, Canada are teaming up to fight climate change-- again
Source: USA TODAY
As President Trump dithers on the fate of the Paris climate deal, California and other western states are banding together to reduce carbon emissions and save hundreds of millions of dollars — and now a Canadian province will join them.
British Columbia's main electric utility said Tuesday it will join the Energy Imbalance Market, a California-led program that makes it easier for utilities to trade electricity across state lines. The energy-sharing program has allowed solar and wind farms across the West to boost production, displacing planet-warming fossil fuels. The initiative also has saved western utility customers $174 million since 2014, according to the California Independent System Operator, which runs the imbalance market.
Powerex Corp. — the energy marketing subsidiary of BC Hydro, Canada's third-largest utility — will officially join the imbalance market in April 2018, becoming the first non-American power provider to participate. It may not be the last. Mexico's grid operator, CENACE, has been exploring whether its Baja California Norte region should join, too
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The Energy Imbalance Market is led by California, but it now includes utilities operating in Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming — a diverse group of states whose politics range from deep blue to deep red. As solar and wind get cheaper and utilities choose not to invest in new coal plants, all those states are seeing the benefits of working together to share clean electricity, Zichella said.
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/31/california-canada-fight-climate-change/358237001/
I saw this article as I was reading articles on Trump likely leaving the Paris Accord -- maybe followed by Turkey and Russia. (Yeah, that's US leadership now - getting Turkey and Russia to follow.) Another set of articles are on how Exxon shareholders won a vote at the shareholders' meeting today on climate change. I hope that Trump will see that he will "win" nothing by leaving other than massive condemnation from most of the western world. (That should not surprise him - the Pope gave him writings by the Pope on climate change and the other 6 in the G7 were angry with him that he would not commit then.)
What is inspiring is that this is already happening and it is not just California and predictably good states like Oregon and Washington. It includes Wyoming and Idaho!!
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I hope more states, maybe countries (Mexico!) join the alliance and isolate Trump and deplorables, to wallow in their own hubris and resentment.
