Kiesling Likes Government Electricity Planning

“Kiesling intellectually resides in the government sandbox, where dilute, intermittent, fragile, government-dependent wind and solar is coordinated by ISO/RTO planners. Add (subsidized) storage, then whatever if left on the supply side can be equilibrated on the demand side with ‘smart meters’ (another government play) in your home or business.”

She fancies herself as a classical liberal, a free-market type fully conversant with the arguments against central economic planning (Mises, Hayek, Lavoie). But when it gets to government planning of the electricity market, her specialty, the veneer comes off. It is ‘market processes’ within the rigged, governmental market. Welcome to the woman of system, technocrat Lynne Kiesling.

Consider this exhibit:

Kiesling intellectually resides in the government sandbox, where dilute, intermittent, fragile, government-dependent wind and solar are coordinated by ISO/RTO planners. Add storage (another government play), and then whatever happens on the supply side can be equilibrated on the demand side with ‘smart meters’ (another government play) in your home or business.

Hot afternoon and the wind isn’t blowing? Your thermostat flips to 78 degrees. No solar during the night? Can’t turn on some of your appliances. Your ‘smart meter’–expensive but necessary–is boss in her neoclassical ‘efficient’, climate-alarmist ‘decarbonized’ world.

What happens when the Production Tax Credit, the Investment Tax Credit, and the Inflation Reduction Act go away? Wind, solar, and batteries would reveal their true negative economics, to be replaced by reliable government-neutral generation that consumers wanted in the first place. Government sandbox emptied.

What happens to the electricity policy consultants and little generals–the technocrats–when mandatory open access and central wholesale power planning by the Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs) go away? Perhaps some will find employment with an integrated electricity major or with independents in the structure of production, adding real value under profit/loss.

A real free market in electricity–studiously avoided by Kiesling–is worth exploring. I have presented the case here. Will she lower her nose and engage?

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Appendix A: Social Engineering

This social media post is indicative of how social engineering is taking over the electricity market in a world of mandatory access and government wind/solar/battery forcing in the market.

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Appendix B: Another Illustration

Appendix C: Kiesling’s Electricity Statism and Dodgeball

Electricity Statism or Free Markets? (Kiesling shows more cards) (December 19, 2024)

Lynne Kiesling: All in with the ‘Virtual Power Plant’ (Biden/Harris policy vs. free markets) (October 7, 2024)

Electricity Statism Conference: Kiesling Rides High (June 25, 2024)

The Great Texas Blackout of 2021: Triumph of the Unreliables (February 20, 2024)

Kiesling vs. Cato’s Fisher on Free Market Electricity: For the Record (February 8, 2024)

Kiesling: ISOs/RTOs Suffer from “The Knowledge Problem” (November 1, 2023

Horwitz vs. Kiesling on Climate (October 3, 2023)

Renewable Tax Credits: Kiesling Ducks Again (July 20, 2023)

Free Market Electricity: End the Blackout (Kiesling bobs and weaves) (July 11, 2023)

Woman of System: Lynne Kiesling as Electricity Planner (July 12, 2023)

Will Lynne Kiesling Show More Cards? (electricity in crisis, time for debate!) (May 18, 2023)

Electricity Policy: An Exchange with Lynne Kiesling (more evasion, statism from a “classical liberal”) (May 11, 2023)

Are Electricity ISOs/RTOs Government Central Planning? (February 17, 2023)

“Electricity Restructuring: The Texas Story” (revisiting a book gone sour) (August 18, 2022)

Classical Liberalism and Electricity: Ten Questions for Lynne Kiesling (August 17, 2022)

Classical Liberalism and Electricity: An (Unfinished) Exchange with Lynne Kiesling (August 16, 2022)

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