In another case of ‘you know it’s a cult when’, Colorado’s Governor is pushing a delusional 100% wind and solar target. Ignoring the fact that there isn’t a state or country on earth that has ever powered itself entirely with wind and solar; ignoring the fact that every state or country that’s tried is suffering the double whammy of crippling power prices and routine blackouts. But cults never trouble themselves with facts and evidence.
Which is where Jake Fogleman, Issac Orr and Mitch Rolling come in.
In a three-part analysis, they calculate the cost of Governor Jared Polis’s goal of a 100 percent wind and solar, as well as a maniacal plan of 100% electrification of homes and forcing Coloradans to drive all Electric Vehicles. We set out the executive summaries of each report and provide links to the full reports in each case.
Colorado’s Energy Future: The High Cost of 100% Renewable Electricity by 2040 Part 1 of 3
Independence Institute
Jake Fogleman, Issac Orr and Mitch Rolling
May 2023
Executive Summary
- Colorado Governor Jared Polis’s goal of a 100 percent renewable (wind, solar, and batteries) electric grid by 2040 (hereafter, the “Polis Plan”) would cost the state $318.8 billion through 2050.
- Colorado electricity customers (residential, commercial, and industrial) would see their average monthly electricity bills increase to $628 by 2040.
- The transition would reduce the reliability of the grid by making the state more vulnerable to fluctuations in electricity output from weather-dependent energy sources like wind and solar.
- Under the Polis Plan, the electric grid would experience capacity shortfalls, which means there is not enough electricity on the grid to prevent blackouts, due to weather-driven fluctuations in electricity generation from wind and solar facilities.
- Colorado would experience 25 hours of blackouts spread across three separate events in January and early February 2040 if electricity demand and wind and solar output are the same as they were in the year 2021.
- Alternatively, Colorado could meet Polis’s electric-sector decarbonization goals on the same timeline, without reliability issues and at just over a quarter of the cost, by transitioning the state’s generating assets to nuclear energy.
Colorado’s Energy Future: The High Cost of 100 Percent Electric Home Heating Part 2 of 3
Independence Institute
Jake Fogleman, Issac Orr and Mitch Rolling
August 2023
Executive Summary
- The complete electrification of residential heating combined with Colorado Governor Jared Polis’s goal of a 100 percent renewable electricity grid by 2040 (hereafter, Polis Plan+electrification) would cost Coloradans up to $620.7 billion through 2050.
- Residential home heating electrification alone would cost approximately $302 billion through 2050.
- Colorado electricity customers (residential, commercial, and industrial) would see their average monthly electricity bills increase to $797 through 2050. They would peak at an average of $1,143 in 2040.
- The typical Colorado household would see their average monthly electricity bills increase to an average of $566 through 2050, and they would reach as high as an average of $856 in 2040.
- To meet Colorado’s present-day electricity demand as well as the additional demand created by electrifying home heating with only wind, solar, existing hydropower, and batteries, the state would need to install twelve times the generation capacity currently on the grid.
- Despite this massive increase in installed capacity, Colorado would still experience 26 hours of blackouts spread across three separate events in January and early February 2040 if electricity demand and wind and solar output are similar to 2021.
- Alternatively, Colorado could meet Governor Polis’s electric-sector and residential home heating decarbonization goals on the same timeline, without reliability issues and at less than a third of the cost, by transitioning the state’s generating assets to nuclear energy.
Colorado’s Energy Future: The High Cost of 100 Percent Electric Vehicles Part 3 of 3
Independence Institute
Jake Fogleman, Issac Orr and Mitch Rolling
September 2023
Executive Summary
- The complete electrification of Colorado’s light-duty vehicle fleet, combined with total residential heating electrification and Colorado Governor Jared Polis’s goal of a 100 percent renewable electricity grid by 2040 (hereafter, Polis Plan+electrification+EV), would cost Coloradans up to $695.3 billion through 2050.
- The additional generation capacity needed to support total light-duty vehicle electrification alone would cost approximately $74.6 billion through 2050.
- Colorado electricity customers (residential, commercial, and industrial) would see their average monthly electricity bills increase to $907 through 2050. They would peak at an average of $1,279 in 2040.
- To meet Colorado’s present-day electricity demand and the additional demand created by electrifying light-duty transportation and home heating with only wind, solar, existing hydropower, and batteries, the state would need to install more than fourteen times the generation capacity currently on the grid.
- Despite this massive increase in installed capacity, Colorado would still experience 25 hours of blackouts spread across three separate events in January and early February 2040 if electricity demand and wind and solar output are similar to 2021.
- Alternatively, Colorado could meet Governor Polis’s electric-sector, residential home heating, and light-duty vehicle decarbonization goals on the same timeline, without reliability issues and at roughly a third of the cost, by transitioning the state’s generating assets to nuclear energy.
STOP THESE THINGS 
The impracticality of battery-powered vehicles is finally becoming apparent, the legacy of which is a tremendous waste of resources and damage to the environment. The consequences of liberal-driven wind and solar are, however, far worse as they have the potential to drive society off-a-cliff when widespread electrical power failure occurs.
Don’t forget that the average EV weighs 25-33% more than its equivalent ICE vehicle. Road damage increases as the fourth power of axle weight, so the average EV produces 2.4 to 3.1 times more road damage (1.25 to 1.33 raised to the fourth power). EVs don’t pay road tax at the pump like ICE vehicles do. Yet another subsidy for urban virtue signalers who are rich enough to afford an EV and drive six miles per day.
Don’t forget that EVs spontaneously burst into flames and can’t be extinguished.
Don’t forget that most insurance companies won’t certify an EV to be put back into service after a collision unless the battery is entirely replaced — because they might burst into flames.
Complete electrification of all heating would in a serious shutdown of the grid as it becomes 100% off/on disabled energy based on the weather will ABSOLUTELY kill tens of thousands of people. What is wrong in the head with these people in governing? Blaming the table of element’s mineral called CARBON which cleans water in filters, again CLEANS, as blocking heat escape is a mental illness. It’s not a solid in the air and it helps CLEAN THE AIR. It remains uniform at 1/2500 existence in the AIR. It moves, it does not ever get stuck in the sky. Carbon mania is seriously a dangerous cult.