In his Dec. 5 editorial Mr. Lynn appropriately calls out the Department of Public Service (DPS) for threatening to strengthen the coal and nuclear industries by effectively halting the progress of solar power by creating an uneven playing field. As coal and nuclear power are both heavily subsidized by fuzzy taxpayer dollars they have a distinct financial advantage over renewables at baseline. Renewables are open and transparent in their costs to ratepayers, which is apparently a problem for DPS, who would a … (read more)
