Wednesday, June 26, 2013

California Wastes a Quarter Billion Dollars On Blooms





The once golden state is not buying flowers for the state capitol.  They are leaking money left, right and center on Bloom Boxes thanks to likes of Jared Huffman and his SGIP legislation.  The SGIP is the self generation incentive program that was meant to lower carbon emissions in the once golden state.  Originally intended to promote wind and solar it now includes fuel cells and includes Bloom fuel cells in a big way.

Yesterday I received data from the staff of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) that administers the SGIP program.  Here are that data as of June 25, 2013.

Type of Fuel Cell
Projects
Kilowatts
Amount
All Electric Only Fuel Cells
              209
        103,657
 $    349,867,856
All Bloom Fuel Cells
              153
           74,587
 $    257,310,790
Bloom % of Total
73.2%
72.0%
73.5%


Wow Bloom has extracted over a quarter billion dollars under the SGIP program and has gotten for itself or its customers almost three quarters of the money for electric only fuel cells.  So what if the Bloom box emits 884 pounds of CO2 per megawatt hour.  So what if it emits VOCs.  So what if it contains hazardous solid waste.  Per Jared Huffman this is green technology that is deserving of your money.  Yes you fund it if you are a customer of a utility in California as that is the way the program is funded.

Interestingly the CPUC also gave me data on the number of cancelled projects in the program.  These figures are excluded from the ones above.

Type of Fuel Cell
Projects
Kilowatts
Amount
 Bloom Fuel Cell Cancelled
                66
                33,125
 $    137,745,300


Looks like a significant number of Bloom projects were cancelled.  For the projects that are installed or going ahead a SGIP of $3,450 per kilowatt was given.  This covered approximately 35% of the cost of the system.  The federal government also gave a 30% investment tax credit for these fuel cells, meaning 65% of the cost of the fuel cell was paid for by We the US people.  If the cell does not emit more CO2 than the existing grid average one might argue we did this to lower CO2 emissions, but the Bloom fuel cell emits 30% higher CO2 emissions than the existing California grid so why on heavens earth did this program ever go forward.

Mr. Huffman as a State Assemblyman introduced Assembly Bill 864 and his largest individual contributor between May 2010 and May 2012 while an assemblyman introducing this legislation was AT&T.  He was given $6,900 of campaign contributions by AT&T.  AT&T is Bloom’s largest customer.  The SGIP for Bloom Boxes at AT&T sites in California probably exceeds $40 million.  Wow AT&T got a 579,710% return on their money given to Mr. Huffman.

In a previous blog I called Mr. Huffman a Thermodynamic Neophyte.  It is actually the Green Machine who is a Political Neophyte.  Mr. Huffman knew exactly what he was doing.  What he probably did not know was how gangrene the Bloom boxes really are, and now he, AT&T, and Bloom Energy have a developing scandal thanks to the Green Machine’s tenacious unpeeling of the rotten onion. 

Mr. Huffman continues to hide from me.  He continues to block my comments on his public Facebook page.  He continues to pretend to be the green Congressman and even caught the red eye back from the left coast to DC to attend Mr. Obama’s speech on the environment at Georgetown University yesterday. 

Mr. Huffman for a measly $6,900 from AT&T in return for some crummy state legislation introduced by you under AB 864 in California, we have paid big time in subsidizing your green friends at Bloom.   Perhaps Colin Powell who sits on the board at Bloom together with Mr. Doerr who hosted Mr. Obama for dinner with the late Steve Jobs will come to Mr. Huffman’s side when I do manage to engage him in debate on who is green and who is gangrene.  I would love to take on all three stooges even with my hands tied behind my back.  You see I have thermodynamics on my side.

4 comments:

  1. That is an incredible amount of money. I'm confused though - if the Bloom Box solution generates more CO2 per kW generated, that must mean they are consuming more natural gas per kW generated. Wouldn't that immediately be immediately be obvious from a cost perspective? Or is AT&T willing to spend more per kW if it allows them to call themselves green?

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    1. The who thing is a greenwashing sham. The VTA (light rail in Santa Clara County exposed the device as being unfinanceable without the tax credits. It is a piece of junk and should never have been given all these subsidies. But Al Gore and Colin Powell are involved so who cares about cost when you have such powerful people.

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  2. The data in DE state that the emissions of CO2 are 884 pounds per megawatt hour of 0.884 pound per kwh, The US EPA says that for the year 2011 the California grid emitted 0.658 pounds CO2 per kwh. The grid is green Bloom is Gangrene and Huffman is beyond gangrene he is a total coward who will not even call me.

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