.jonathanchait writes on what's behind the wave of state and local resistance to green-energy projects
Photo: George Rose/Getty Images One of the more depressing lead sentences I have ever read in a news story was published on January 11. “A temporary moratorium on developing large-scale, ground-mounted solar projects, defined as ones that generate at least 250 kilowatts of power, is winning support from residents,” begins the article. From there, the report only gets worse.
In many of these cases, environmentalists themselves have taken a lead role in blocking green-energy projects. Residents in Nantucket, Massachusetts, filed suit to block the construction of offshore wind turbines, claiming they would endanger the whales. Two enormous solar plants in the Nevada desert are fighting environmentalists who complain they will destroy animal habitat.
The Olson-Rauch theory seems to be an increasingly useful lens to understand why the American transition to green energy has proceeded at an agonizingly slow pace. Decarbonization fundamentally requires unsettling established patterns. The United States already has settled systems for moving energy from producers to consumers. A green-energy revolution will mean not only displacing incumbent networks, but also building new ones.
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