Consistent with free-market principles, this policy holds those who are responsible for imposing the most costs and strains on the grid accountable by paying for the development of reliable energy infrastructure that their technology will require. This bill ensures these costs will not be socialized across ratepayers who are neither responsible for the increased demand nor for the harm caused by previous policies that led to intermittent supply.
We do not presently have a “free market” for energy. If a free energy market is the goal, then tax subsidies and incentives for the transfer of energy to green energy and electric vehicles should be revoked. In a truly free market, reliable energy sources would survive and thrive, with expensive and intermittent sources—which require massive redundancies—relegated to the margins.
