Recent letters to the editor from Sen. Gerald Hocker and Ted Spickler focused on recent and long-term risks of flooding. Climate change is a flooding threat multiplier for Delaware, along with subsidence sinking our state.
But the good news is that there is a solution: more clean, renewable energy and fewer polluting power sources like coal, oil and gas. Clean energy like solar and wind is cheap and getting cheaper all the time.
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article by Professor Mark Jacobson of Stanford University, "For Lower Electricity Prices, Invest More in Renewables." He pointed out that many states are powered primarily by wind, from the Dakotas to Oklahoma, and they have low electricity prices compared to others. For example, South Dakota gets 95% of its demand supplied by renewable energy and yet it has the ninth-lowest electricity price. North Dakota has the lowest electricity prices in the U.S. and gets 52% of its electricity from renewables. Texas is building wind and solar like fury because it makes economic sense.
These states in the Great Plains have excellent wind. So does the East Coast. We need to keep working to promote offshore wind so that we here along the Atlantic Coast will have clean and cheap energy that will help address the climate crisis.
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