Electricity is About to be Like Housing





by Suitable-Economy-346

7 comments

  1. At the end of the video, he also says that he believes that Democrats are going to face the brunt of the push back of increasing electricity prices. He says Republicans will, as they’ve been doing, blame electricity prices on Democrats insistence on going solar and wind solely for environmental reasons, even if that’s not true. And he believes Republicans will lean this idea that if you do things for the environment, it must mean it’s more costly, and that’s why your electricity prices have gone up. Instead of what actually happened with the Trump administration’s attack on renewable projects and the Big Beautiful Bill’s LNG export provision and gutting of renewable development.

    Hopefully he’s wrong about this, but that sounds like exactly what’s going to happen.

    Anyways, this a good video for your parents or friends who aren’t really following anything.

  2. Solar may be the only for homes to have power in the future.

  3. I found this analysis less than convincing. If data centers grow enough, it would get to the point where an expanding systems pays for itself by spreading fixed costs over a bigger base – exactly what happened in past decades of rapid power demand/economic growth. It’s going to be a difficult 5+ years to get there if ever though.

  4. This is why I want solar and a battery. 

    In Australia, prices are ok, but it still costs me a few grand a year. 

  5. I really don’t like this edit style. I can wait between breaths to hear a human speak.

  6. This guy is full of shit. I had to stop watching 2 minutes in. He’s a bright kid but lacks real world experience and industrial knowledge. I can take you to 5 geographically different spots in the US that are burning off natural gas because there is nobody to buy it. The 12.5 cents you typically pay per kilowatt is mostly delivery charge, because the natural gas is so cheap. It’s a byproduct of well drilling that must be burned off. Most places natural gas is piped to utility companies. That is now over1/3rd of electricity in the US comes from. Lots of the data centers that are being built next to water (because cooling is so important) and natural gas resources, so they have easy access to cheap energy. These are in places like North Dakota, Montana, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, West Virginia, these states have lots of fracking wells. If they’re fracking then they are generating natural gas and these places are generally good for straight up gas wells. There really isn’t any new drilling for natural gas because there so much of it. Over the last 20 years the US has been switching from coal to natural gas for electric generation, there is nothing holding it back. In the scheme of things is is about as clean energy as you can get, it’s gonna come up or get burned off one way or another, so why not make it into usable electricity? Common industry example over the last 20 years the retail price is going to be about .12 to .15 cents per kilowatt, I’ve heard it is even cheaper some places in the US. There are things to worry about, electricity is not one of them.

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