...for muddled, when your confusion causes you to come to inaccurate conclusions.
It's really no surprise that CleanTechnica has published another article touting the Grain Belt Express, written by someone from Union County, New Jersey, that makes inapt conclusions. This author has been missing several crucial pieces of the GBE puzzle for years and doesn't appear to any closer to finding them. It's always about how fabulous wind power could be, if only GBE gets built.
This article focuses on the new Nucor plant in Sedalia, Missouri. As a small part of its planning, Nucor signed a power purchase agreement with Kansas energy company Evergy for wind power from Kansas. Wind power supplied on existing transmission lines. The plant is slated to open by the end of this year. GBE is still nothing more than an idea without the necessary permits.
Access to wind power had little to do with Nucor's decision to site the plant in Sedalia.
It's really no surprise that CleanTechnica has published another article touting the Grain Belt Express, written by someone from Union County, New Jersey, that makes inapt conclusions. This author has been missing several crucial pieces of the GBE puzzle for years and doesn't appear to any closer to finding them. It's always about how fabulous wind power could be, if only GBE gets built.
This article focuses on the new Nucor plant in Sedalia, Missouri. As a small part of its planning, Nucor signed a power purchase agreement with Kansas energy company Evergy for wind power from Kansas. Wind power supplied on existing transmission lines. The plant is slated to open by the end of this year. GBE is still nothing more than an idea without the necessary permits.
Access to wind power had little to do with Nucor's decision to site the plant in Sedalia.
Nucor selected Sedalia because of its shorter time and lower freight costs to ship rebar to Kansas City and the upper Midwest and Plains markets as current cargoes "travel long distances," the company said in its November 2017 announcement.
The steelmaker also highlighted ample scrap supply available in the immediate area for deciding on the region.
Except in the muddled mind of the CleanTechnica author, who somehow makes the unlikely GBE the notable reason for both Nucor and other new manufacturing possibilities in Missouri.
Missouri also has easy access to some of the very best wind resources in the US — or it would, if the 4,000 megawatt Grain Belt Express long distance wind transmission line ever gets done.
Seems like several crucial facts got left out here. Like the fact that only 500 MW of GBE's proposed 4,000 MW capacity is even available in Missouri, IF a conversion station gets built in Missouri (but GBE has lost its option to purchase land to site the station) and IF a corporation chooses to pay the high costs to purchase the remaining Missouri capacity left after GBE sold 200 of the 500 MW to Missouri municipalities at a loss. The loss must be subsidized by other buyers in order to make the project financially viable.
Seems like Nucor choose Missouri despite its distance from "cheap" wind power in other states only accessible through "high priced" existing transmission. If it was all about access to "cheap" wind power, Nucor might have chosen to site in Kansas, or Nebraska.
Instead, the fake news environmental organizations like to pretend that "clean energy" was the driving force behind Nucor locating in Sedalia, and that GBE had something to do with their choice. Anyone who listens to the trash Renew Missouri pumps out as "news" is bound to have their thinking muddled.
Here's the reality: Nucor chose to site its new plant in Missouri despite the fact that GBE is going nowhere. We don't need GBE to attract new industry to Missouri. Nucor is proof that it can happen.
Therefore, there is no need to sacrifice private property and agricultural productivity, along with the jobs and economic development this industry provides, in order to attract other industry to Missouri.
CleanTechnica also continues to make crucial errors about the viability of GBE. It continually fails to recognize that GBE's Illinois permit was vacated by the court. GBE is NOT approved in Illinois, in fact it's back to square one. It hasn't even filed an application for a permit. In addition, its Missouri permit has been appealed and the matter has yet to even be heard. GBE is regressing, not progressing. Meanwhile, Missouri continues to thrive without it. That's the real story.
Seems like Nucor choose Missouri despite its distance from "cheap" wind power in other states only accessible through "high priced" existing transmission. If it was all about access to "cheap" wind power, Nucor might have chosen to site in Kansas, or Nebraska.
Instead, the fake news environmental organizations like to pretend that "clean energy" was the driving force behind Nucor locating in Sedalia, and that GBE had something to do with their choice. Anyone who listens to the trash Renew Missouri pumps out as "news" is bound to have their thinking muddled.
Here's the reality: Nucor chose to site its new plant in Missouri despite the fact that GBE is going nowhere. We don't need GBE to attract new industry to Missouri. Nucor is proof that it can happen.
Therefore, there is no need to sacrifice private property and agricultural productivity, along with the jobs and economic development this industry provides, in order to attract other industry to Missouri.
CleanTechnica also continues to make crucial errors about the viability of GBE. It continually fails to recognize that GBE's Illinois permit was vacated by the court. GBE is NOT approved in Illinois, in fact it's back to square one. It hasn't even filed an application for a permit. In addition, its Missouri permit has been appealed and the matter has yet to even be heard. GBE is regressing, not progressing. Meanwhile, Missouri continues to thrive without it. That's the real story.
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