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A Small New York Town Plans a Profitable, 100% Renewable Energy Future

A Small New York Town Plans a Profitable, 100% Renewable Energy Future A community choice program and a lack of natural gas are enabling Marbletown to achieve 100 percent renewable energy and tackle 100 percent renewable energy —while saving money.

by Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA

View over Marbletown from Shawungunk Ridge. Photo by Tom Konrad

With advances in technology, the pathways to 100 percent renewable energy are becoming clear. As a result, the central challenge has become less about how to get there, and more about how to pay for it.

The town of Marbletown, in New York’s Hudson River Valley, is finding that problem is solving itself.

Marbletown is a town of 5,500 people covering 55 square miles on the edges of the Catskills and Shawangunk Mountains, containing the hamlets of Stone Ridge and High Falls. The Town’s Environmental Conservation Commission (ECC) and Sustainable Hudson Valley recently conducted a planning effort for 100% clean energy (including not only electricity but buildings and transportation as well.) They discovered that, despite its small population, Marbletown has two advantages that most other municipalities around the country lack: a community-choice aggregation policy and a lack of natural gas.

These two features are enabling this New York town, where this author resides, to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity, while also saving money.

Potential savings in annual energy costs for Marbletown residents and businesses from conversion to 100% renewable electricity. Renewable electricity at reduced cost

Enabled by New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision initiative, Marbletown recently joined the Hudson Valley Community Power, a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) program. The CCA will take the place of the town’s electric utility, Central Hudson, as the default electricity provider in New York’s deregulated market. The CCA will procure generation for the town. Central Hudson will continue to provide electricity delivery, service and billing. Customers also have the opportunity to opt out of the program at any time, but they will likely have little incentive to do so.

By leveraging the power of group purchasing electricity, the CCA administrator and the town expect that it will be able to provide 100 percent renewable electricity at a reduced price compared to electricity supplied by Central Hudson. If it turns out that the CCA cannot obtain electricity on advantageous terms, the town can leave the CCA at no cost and no further obligation.

When the Marbletown CCA begins operating in early 2019, the vast majority of electricity used by the town’s residents will come from renewable energy resources, while lowering their costs.

Saving money with building electrification

Another thing going for Marbletown — though it may not appear to be the case at first — is its lack of access to natural gas. This lack of natural gas infrastructure enables Marbletown to cost-effectively leapfrog to all-electric buildings, in the same way many countries in Africa were able to leapfrog over the installation of costly telephone infrastructure when wireless phones became available.

Cold climate heat pumps and heat pump water heaters are the cellphones to natural gas’ landlines. The 2018 report The Economics of Electrifying Buildings from the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) compared the life-cycle costs of cold climate air source heat pumps (ASHPs) with conventional heating with and without air conditioners in five cities: Oakland, Houston, Providence and Chicago in a number of scenarios.

Economic modeling of cold climate air source heat pumps by Rocky Mountain Institute.

They found that ASHPs were usually more cost effective than natural gas in new construction, and always more cost-effective than fuel oil or propane heat in the one city where those two fuels are used: Providence, RI.

I spoke to Mike Henchen, a manager with RMI’s electricity practice and one of the authors of the report, to find out how these economics would translate to Marbletown’s climate. He says that the two most important factors in translating the ASHP results from Providence to Marbletown are the somewhat colder climate and the differences in the prices of electricity and fuel oil.

RMI’s modeling found that, because of the colder climate in Chicago, the ASHPs studied are 15 percent less efficient at producing heat from electricity in Chicago than in Providence over the course of a typical winter.

According to the National Weather Service, Providence’s typical winter daily temperature ranges from 24 degrees F to 40 degrees F. For Chicago, that range runs from 15 to 32 degrees, while the typical range in Marbletown is 21 to 36 degrees. Hence, Marbletown’s climate is nearly midway between that of Providence and Chicago for the purpose of winter heating. Hence, we can expect that ASHPs will be around 7 percent less efficient for producing heat in Marbletown than in Providence.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, average retail electricity prices are 16.3 cents per kilowatt-hour in Rhode Island. In Marbletown, electricity currently costs about 13 cents per kilowatt-hour (not including expected savings from the CCA). The EIA number for New York state as a whole is 14.5 cents.

A spot check of heating oil prices in Rhode Island and the Lower Hudson Valley region of New York also finds that Marbletown heating oil prices are approximately 20 percent higher than those in Providence.

With electricity 20 percent cheaper in Marbletown than Providence, and fuel oil approximately 20 percent more expensive, these price differences will completely overwhelm the slight reduction in ASHP efficiency caused by Marbletown’s colder climate.

The cost savings from heating with an ASHP as compared to with fuel oil should be about 30 percent greater per unit of heat than in Providence, due to a combination of lower electricity prices and higher fuel oil costs. Where fuel-oil-to-electric conversions are cost-effective in Providence, in Marbletown they are compelling.

Electric vehicles

Unlike with heating, Marbletown has few advantages in the transition to electric transportation. As a rural town, most residents are completely car-dependent for their everyday needs. One advantage we do have is being located in the center of Ulster County. The county government has been a leader in the installation of EV charging stations at county facilities, and it makes these charging stations available for public use as well.

The town also used a state grant to install an EV charging station at the town’s community center. Marbletown is working with the neighboring town of Rosendale to install an EV charging station at our shared municipal offices, and they are helping two local nonprofits to install EV chargers on their premises.

New York state has a generous grant program for EV charging stations, but the program requires the use of networked commercial stations. In at least two instances, this has made the grants more trouble than they are worth, when the stations turned out to be incompatible with the limited local cell phone network.

Town leaders believe the state grant program could be much improved if it also provided much smaller grants for the installation of non-networked charging stations more suitable to rural areas. The current program is overly focused on high-speed charging along key transportation corridors to the neglect of Level 2 charging at destinations like workplaces and recreation areas, like hiking trails.

Seasonal mismatch

Another difficulty of transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy by converting heating loads to electricity is seasonal mismatch. Heating loads peak in the winter. At Marbletown’s 42° N latitude, the town gets only nine hours of daylight in midwinter, but 15 hours in midsummer. This, combined with a much lower sun angle, leads to solar installations producing only one-half to one-third as much energy in January as in July.

Lower solar production in winter, combined with higher winter electricity demand for heating, will eventually move New York’s peak electricity demand to winter from summer. Solving this problem of seasonal mismatch will be easiest if we start planning today by minimizing winter peak demand and looking for renewable electricity sources that have significant production during the coldest winter months.

Many possible solutions to seasonal mismatch will have to be addressed outside of Marbletown’s borders. The state is pursuing the deployment of 2,400 megawatts of offshore wind, and has significant hydropower resources. More hydropower is imported from Quebec.

Long-distance north-south high-voltage DC transmission projects, such as the proposed Atlantic Wind Connection, would not only enable the connection of large amounts of offshore wind power, but would also allow for the import of renewable electricity to New York in the critical winter heating season. In addition, the lines could export excess solar generation to areas with more significant cooling loads in the summer.

Local resources

Marbletown has no wind resources of interest to wind power developers. Other than solar, its local renewable energy resources are hydropower and biomass.

The town has numerous small streams and an existing run-of-river hydro plant, which it is looking at developing and upgrading with a local developer, Current Hydro. One small stream we are looking at dries up during most summers, but it has such a substantial drop that it forms a beautiful waterfall in the winter. The local property owners cannot see it from their houses, and they worry about trespassers falling and hurting themselves on the ice. Making this attractive nuisance safe by using the water for hydropower would be a great way to both solve a potential liability problem for the landowners, while also producing renewable electricity when it is needed for heating.

Many town residents currently save money by heating with wood stoves, rather than fuel oil. Encouraging the adoption of more efficient wood pellet stoves and advanced wood boilers can also reduce winter electricity use while lowering pollution from less efficient, older models. The state has generous incentives for the installation of advanced wood heating systems.

RMI’s Henchen suggests that the town can also “minimize the winter peak through weatherization.” Focusing on the best heating technologies can also greatly reduce the peak load. The best cold climate ASHPs will use one-third as much electricity over the course of the winter as electric resistance heating, and a little less than half as much on the coldest days, when they are least efficient and heating needs peak. By focusing on replacing resistance heating with more efficient technologies, winter heating loads can be reduced, leaving room for more fuel-oil-to-electric and propane-to-electric conversions.

Incidentally, Central Hudson just launched $750 instant rebates on two models of hybrid heat pump water heaters costing $1,299 without the rebate. The utility’s rebates on smart thermostats can also help shift heating and cooling loads away from peak hours. (The existing rebates on ASHPs are here.)

Next steps

Many policy recommendations for transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy involve utility and incentive programs that are beyond the purview of a rural town of a few thousand people. But we are not entirely without policy levers. The town issues building permits, and has control over building and zoning codes, although changes in building codes require and exemption from the state.

The greatest limitations on what the town can do are the labor and expertise of its small number of employees. This limited capacity is augmented by volunteers on the town’s committees and commissions, the most relevant one in this case being the Environmental Conservation Commission (ECC), which I have led since 2014. The flip side of Marbletown’s small size is that a few volunteers like those on the ECC can have an outsized impact. My team and I have moved Marbletown from the middle of the environmental pack to a town that has drawing positive attention statewide.

Potential paths to 100 percent renewable energy considered by the Marbletown Environmental Conservation Commission as part of an energy planning effort in conjunction with Sustainable Hudson Valley.

Here are some of the steps the town has already taken to move the town towards 100 percent renewable energy.

Completed an inventory of energy use in the town with Sustainable Hudson Valley (PDF presentation).

Removal of approximately a third of the town’s streetlights, and the replacement of the remaining lights with LEDs.

A ban on hydraulic fracking.

Installation of EV charging stations (noted above).

Obtaining a $50,000 grant for the energy retrofit of the town’s community center.

Joined the Hudson Valley Community Power CCA.

An LED lighting retrofit at the Town Highway Department.

Participated in a Solarize campaign that resulted in 16 residential solar installations in the town and 30 additional installations in the other two participating towns and beyond.

Current and planned future projects include:

Connecting several local non-taxable organizations with a solar developer willing to lease their rooftops for community solar developments.

Working with a small hydropower developer to investigate upgrading the local utility-owned hydropower plant to increase its production, as well as to assess the viability of small hydropower installations where local streams cross town property and right-of-ways.

A (mostly symbolic) ban on natural-gas connections and pipelines in the town.

Modifying the cost of building permits to favor building efficiency and electrification, and to favor heat pumps over air conditioners that lack heating capability.

The adoption of New York’s stretch energy code when it is finalized.

Working with local solar installers build community solar on municipal property and local nonprofits, such as churches and emergency responders.

Encouraging local solar installers to include a 240-volt outlet for EV charging as part of solar installations.

Burdens create opportunities

Weaknesses can also be strengths. The high cost of heating with fuel oil and propane has long been a burden on Marbletown residents. Now, it is a strong incentive to switch to a more modern, much more economical, and much cleaner source of heat with cold climate ASHPs. Advances in electric vehicles are enabling similar savings in transportation.

These compelling economics are enhanced by strong support for clean energy by New York state and Ulster County.

All together, these developments are setting the town of Marbletown on a path to a prosperous, clean energy future.

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Foreign experts assess prospects for maintaining UK integrity

PenzaNews. The Welsh Government has established the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales, which will consider the issue of the region’s independence in the context of future relations with the rest of the United Kingdom.

According to the message published on the Cabinet website on October 19, the Commission will be co-chaired by Professor Laura McAllister and former Archbishop Rowan Williams and will consider and develop options for “fundamental reform of the constitutional structures of the United Kingdom, in which Wales remains an integral part and all progressive principal options to strengthen Welsh democracy and deliver improvements for the people of Wales.”

At the same time, Laura McAllister stated that everything is supposed to be on the table.

“So it would be ludicrous to remove any options at this stage. Independence means different things depending on different contexts,” she said.

The Commission was created on the initiative of the ministers of the Welsh government who are members of the Labor Party. The Nationalist Party noted that the new body will allow for a broad conversation about the future of Wales, and said they intend to cooperate with the commission to discuss the issue of independence. Welsh conservatives have called this topic irrelevant.

At the same time, in another administrative-political part of the United Kingdom – Scotland – the issue of independence is more acute. In September, Scotland’s first minister, head of the Scottish National Party, Nicola Sturgeon, announced her intention to hold a new independence referendum by the end of 2023, despite strong opposition from London.

“As we emerge from the pandemic, choices fall to be made that will shape our economy and society for decades to come. So we intend to offer the choice. We will do so only when the COVID crisis has passed but our aim, COVID permitting, is that it will be in the first half of this Parliament – before the end of 2023,” she said, presenting the Scottish MPs with the government’s agenda for the coming year.

The situation in Northern Ireland is also not easy, where people are increasingly beginning to think about the idea of uniting the island. According to a trade agreement between the EU and the UK in December 2020, Northern Ireland, which left the EU as part of the kingdom, remained a member of the community’s customs union. The dual status avoided the emergence of a border between Ulster and Ireland, which is an EU country, but required control procedures in ports for the transport of a number of goods from other parts of the United Kingdom. Due to bureaucratic difficulties, the supply of British products to Northern Ireland was significantly hampered, and this caused discontent among the population. The European Union insists on maintaining the de facto customs border between Northern Ireland and Great Britain in the Irish Sea.

In June, the first minister of Northern Ireland, Arlene Foster was forced to resign due to pressure from party members. They criticized her for fulfilling the Northern Ireland protocol negotiated under the Brexit agreement. According to the politician’s opponents, the authorities of the region were unable to convince London that the document in its current form would only lead to increased tensions in Northern Ireland.

According to some experts, the European Union has no reason to provide Scotland and Northern Ireland with exclusive preferences in the framework of relations between the UK and the EU. Some observers believe that the only way for these territories to maintain trade and economic ties with the EU and keep up its living standard is to secede from the UK. In addition, they believe that London, in principle, is not interested in the state of the economy of Scotland and Northern Ireland, since its priority is to solve its own problems and realize its ambitions.

Analyzing the situation in Wales, Kent Matthews, Professor of Banking and Finance at Cardiff Business School, noted that the existing arrangement suits both Westminster and Cardiff despite the often crying from Cardiff that Westminster does not provide sufficient resources to Cardiff to meet its policy objectives.

“Despite the calls for independence, the Cardiff administration knows that in the present arrangement, they hide behind the cover of central government austerity for failing to produce the ‘cradle to the grave’ socialism of ‘old Labour’ policy. Any attempt to enhance the fiscal attractiveness by lowering taxes for businesses or income tax will have an immediate effect on revenue and the current fiscal rules will not allow the government to borrow in the capital markets to income smooth. Similarly a rise in taxes will increase revenue in the short term but the Treasury will reduce its contribution one-for-one,” Kent Matthews said.

Thus, in his opinion, the rules favour the status quo.

“Greater devolution will only create more responsibility to the Cardiff without necessarily the fiscal means to follow through,” the experts stressed and added that the only alternative for Wales, if it wishes to become a dynamic and prosperous economy is independence and to create the fiscal conditions to attract FDI and English businesses to relocate in Wales.

“Wales contributes about 3% to UK GDP. It is history and nostalgia that keeps the union together. In the current political thinking, Wales will not sacrifice short term pain for long term gain, in the way Singapore did when it was forced out of the Malaysian Federation. It will be better to be dependent on Westminster and complain about their meanness rather than be independent. The public sector is Wales is larger than anywhere else in the UK. The room for the private sector is low and a capitalist type free economy is the last thing the political classes in Wales will want for independence. Wales has the potential but its dreams are too modest,” Kent Matthews explained.

Meanwhile, Peter Taylor-Gooby, Professor of Social Policy at the University of Kent, expressed the opinion that the constitutional commission created in Wales is primarily aimed at discussing the internal problems of the Welsh.

“I think this is really about more local self-government. The group calling for independence is quite small in Wales,” the expert said.

He recalled that both Scotland and Northern Ireland opposed leaving the EU during the Brexit referendum, but nevertheless cannot work out a common position on the issue of being a part of the UK.

“About half in Scotland want independence, fewer in Northern Ireland,” Peter Taylor-Gooby stressed.

Commenting on potential changes in London’s policy, he ruled out the possibility of increasing control over Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. In his opinion, these parts of Great Britain, on the contrary, may receive slightly broader powers in the sphere of self-government, but they will not achieve independence.

“Some English regions may get more self- government too,” he added.

In turn, Iain Begg Professorial Research Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science, believes that questions about the relationships between the four nations of the UK re-opened by Brexit have been further exacerbated by the different approaches of the regions to dealing with the pandemic.

“Therefore, it is no surprise that Wales has decided to examine its position and, given there is a movement and a political party – Plaid Cymru – in favour of independence, it is bound to be one of the options,” the analyst said.

At the same time, in his opinion, independence is very much a live issue in Scotland.

“The ruling Scottish National Party is keen to have a second referendum on the matter. In Ireland, the issue would be unification, not independence, but it is politically very difficult because of the antagonism between the two 'tribes' there. Northern Ireland was created 100 years ago because the protestant population was against being part of an independent, Roman Catholic Ireland, and the conflicts of the late 20th century illustrated the extent of the divisions,” Iain Begg reminded.

According to him, to counter the appeal of independence, London may agree to transfer additional powers to the territories.

Oliver Morrissey, Professor of Development Economics at School of Economics, University of Nottingham, expressed the opinion that including independence as an option for constitutional discussion in Wales is a warning to Westminster of the need to respect the devolved government there.

At the same time, in his opinion, independence is a more serious prospect for Scotland where in the course of the Brexit referendum the preponderance of the supporters of the European Union was quite significant – 62% versus 38%.

“It is not obvious that a majority would vote for independence when they next get the opportunity but it will remain a live issue,” the expert stressed.

Northern Ireland, from his point of view, is even more complex and divided.

“While a majority voted to remain in the EU, a large minority want to remain part of the UK while another large minority would prefer a united Ireland,” Oliver Morrissey said.

Analyzing the likely response of the British government, the expert shared the opinion that London may cede more autonomy to the regions.

“It would be dangerous for London to try and increase control over the devolved regions as that would increase support for independence in Scotland and for Northern Ireland wanting unification with the Republic. A more likely response of London is to cede more autonomy to the regions to preserve the UK. I’m not sure anybody knows what UK sovereignty means – interpretation will differ in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales,” Oliver Morrissey added.

Matt Qvortrup, Professor of Political Science at Coventry University, believes that the issue of independence is formally on the table.

“In my forthcoming book ‘I Want To Break Free: The Art of Creating a New State,’ Manchester University Press, 2022, I analyse this in considerable detail, and my conclusion is that the push for independence only occurs if the government in the mother country tries to resist it,” the expert said.

“Boris Johnson would like to use the EU as a way to divert attention from other pressing problems – including COVID-19. He is trying to stir up a row with the EU because he knows it plays to the nationalists in his party. The problem is that Support for independence in Scotland is linked to the EU – a majority of the Scots did not want to leave the European Union. […] However, there is no indication that the majority of Scots uniformly want independence. The last three polls have ‘no’ to independence ahead,” Matt Qvortrup explained.

At the same time, according to him, Boris Johnson would like to keep the issue alive as it weakens Labour – without winning Scotland, Labour cannot get back into power.

“Nicola Sturgeon – the Scottish First Minister – knows that a ‘no’ in a second referendum would end the dream of Scottish independence forever just like the second referendum in Quebec […]. She knows she might lose, but the referendum plays to the nationalists in her party. So, both Johnson and Sturgeon have an interest in keeping the issue alive, and not having a referendum. So party politics, has trumped the interest of the UK,” the expert concluded.

Source: https://penzanews.ru/en/analysis/67305-2021

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Northern Ireland is the UK's littlest country, with a populace of 1.882 million. It imparts an outskirt to the bigger Ireland, and is arranged over the Irish Sea from Wales and the remainder of the UK. Yet, don't let its size misdirect you. Northern Ireland is a social and instructive force to be reckoned with, and a spot for you to have some good times.

There are numerous higher instructive foundations over this lovely country, and three colleges which have their grounds in the capital city of Belfast . The most established is Queen's University, an individual from the esteemed Russell Group and positioned on the planet top 140 for Graduate possibilities. You could likewise learn at Ulster University, which has one of the most noteworthy further examination and business rates in the entire of the UK, and where more than 92 percent of graduates are either in work or further investigations a half year after graduation (in no little part, this is down to the outstandingly solid connections that Northern Ireland's colleges have with industry). Belfast is likewise home to the Open University in Ireland.

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Belfast and County Down Railway (Ireland) - BCDR 4-4-2T steam locomotive Nr. 8 (Beyer Peacock Locomotive Works, Manchester 1924) by Historical Railway Images Via Flickr: BCDR 4-4-2T steam locomotive Nr. 8 was on of two such locomotives delivered by Beyer Peacock of Manchester in 1924 (BP 6201-2). The Belfast and County Down Railway (BCDR) was an Irish broad gauge (1,600 mm) railway in Ireland (later Northern Ireland) linking Belfast with County Down. It was built in the 19th century and absorbed into the Ulster Transport Authority in 1948. All but the line between Belfast and Bangor was closed in the 1950s, although some of it has been restored near Downpatrick by a heritage line, the Downpatrick and County Down Railway. The company operated 80 miles (129 km) of track (Belfast to Newcastle and five branches) exclusively in County Down, with its longest route being from Belfast to Castlewellan, a distance of 41 miles (66 km). All locomotives were constructed by Beyer, Peacock, except No. 2, which was from Harland and Wolff. By 1948 the company had 29 locomotives. Two steam railcars from Kitson & Co. were acquired in 1905. The locomotive works were at Belfast Queen's Quay railway station and closed in 1950. New carriage works had been opened in 1886, with the last carriage being built in 1923. (Information from Wikipedia)

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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Boris Johnson is no stranger to having cake and eating it. He has promised Brexit “do or die,” but insists he is prepared to leave the European Union without a deal. Not even his own brother is buying it.“Let us be absolutely clear: This government is going to get a deal from our friends in Brussels,” the prime minister said on Wednesday. “We will get the backstop out.”This suggests one of three things: either Johnson is bluffing, he actually means it, or is being sincere – but entirely unrealistic.There are many in the markets who think that a deal will be done. Why? Because there is so much to gain on both sides from that outcome: It would lift a weight off the pound and revive business investment. It would also avert a deep freeze in EU-U.K. relations and allow trade talks to begin.A deal that got parliamentary approval would also provide some political redemption for Johnson. What prime minister wouldn’t want to clinch such a victory? What country or trading bloc slouching toward recession wouldn’t want to avoid the alternative? And yet there is much to suggest that Johnson’s position is similar to Donald Trump claiming that he will build a wall and Mexico will pay for it.First, there is a well-documented history of Brexiters promising fantasy deals.“After we establish full legal independence we can then decide which EU-inspired rules and regulations we want to keep,” Michael Gove, Johnson’s partner in the Leave campaign and now minister responsible for Brexit planning, told an audience in April 2016. “One thing which won’t change is our ability to trade freely with Europe,” he promised. It’s hard to take Johnson’s assurances today at face value in light of misstatements like these.Second, there is motive. If Johnson doesn’t profess to want a deal, he is then left admitting that the only thing he really wants is a no-deal Brexit. That would scare off many moderate conservative voters, even those who support Brexit. And who would he blame if that proves, as widely predicted even by the government’s own estimates, to impose some rather unfortunate costs and burdens on business and ordinary people? It’s useful to say you tried to find a compromise but the other side – in this case, the EU or parliament – were unreasonable.Third, where is the evidence of deal-making? The EU keeps saying they are waiting for proposals that haven’t materialized. Johnson dodged Jeremy Corbyn’s questions on Wednesday about whether he had actually made any proposals to Brussels. He accused the Labour leader of obstructing negotiations by forcing the government to seek an extension – but Corbyn shot back, saying “I fail to see how I can be accused of undermining negotiations because there are no negotiations taking place.”Even backbench Conservative MPs looking for a crumb of comfort, or at least a ladder to climb down, were disappointed. “Having met the prime minister earlier today, I was unconvinced that he had a plan to reach a deal on Brexit,” David Gauke tweeted on Tuesday before voting in favor of legislation stopping a no-deal Brexit. If an agreement really was in the offing, Johnson’s own brother Jo, who resigned Thursday citing the tension between family loyalty and national interest, might well have stuck around. The prime minister’s argument that he will get a deal rests on there being a way out of the Irish backstop that both sides can live with. For Brexiters, the problem is the provision could lock the U.K. inside the EU’s customs union in order to keep the border with Ireland open. For the EU, maintaining the integrity of its single market is paramount.Johnson claims resolving this is a simple matter of accepting other options. It’s not so straightforward.The independent Alternative Arrangements Commission produced a lengthy report, supported by Brexiters, that goes into considerable detail about replacing the backstop with behind-the-border checks, multi-tiered trusted trader programs, special economic zones, and exemptions for the smallest firms. Ireland and the EU have considered these ideas and found them wanting, for various reasons including cost, enforceability, and political acceptability.A more recent proposal drawn up by Jonathan Faull, a respected former European Commission director general, and two legal academics, argues that Ireland and the U.K. should use their legal systems to enforce each other’s policies, making it a criminal offense to knowingly export goods across the border that breach the other side’s regulatory rules. Customs would be processed in trade centers away from the border. It’s an innovative approach that nonetheless relies on a great deal of trust and the robustness of the law enforcement and judicial systems on both sides.It also requires people to recognize a border which, after the Good Friday Agreement, many don’t. The very existence of a different set of rules politicizes the border in a way that could cause tensions to flare up: Non-compliance could be seen by one community as a sign of defiance.There are similar proposals around. Former Ulster Unionist Party leader Reg Empey also wants to make transport of non-compliant goods an offense in British law and suggests a North-South ministerial body to monitor and regulate trade across the border with the U.K. government providing the EU with an indemnity in the event of any violations.Pressed repeatedly this week on whether he has a plan, Johnson reportedly told the 1922 Committee of Conservative MPs that he is ready to propose an alternative to the backstop ahead of talks with Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar next week. He seems to favor a proposal under which Northern Ireland would match EU rules in certain areas like food and agriculture. The Northern Ireland Assembly (suspended since January 2017 amid deadlock between nationalists and unionists) would possibly be given a veto on future EU rules. This would require the bloc to concede that it cannot have full control over goods crossing the border (although possibly the EU would be given an emergency brake to use in case China or others abused this open door).In other words, workarounds to the backstop exist; but all are inferior to the current open border and require concessions, impose economic costs and carry political risks. Whether or not any are acceptable is a political question and depends, for both sides, entirely on whether the best-available alternative is deemed worse than the long-term cost of compromise.It’s unclear, for example, whether the Democratic Unionist Party, which has staunchly opposed Northern Ireland being treated differently from the rest of the U.K., can live with a compromise that crosses that red line. Johnson, no doubt, hopes that by calling and winning an election he would no longer be dependent on the DUP’s support in parliament – but that is quite a gamble.Even if he can devise a cake-and-eat-it solution, any concessions would be weaponized in an election campaign by Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party. That could be enough to deny Johnson his victory at the polls.A deal that replaces the hated backstop isn’t impossible; it just requires a parliamentary majority and a compliant EU and Ireland. So far, there are no signs of any of them.To contact the author of this story: Therese Raphael at [email protected] contact the editor responsible for this story: Edward Evans at [email protected] column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Therese Raphael writes editorials on European politics and economics for Bloomberg Opinion. She was editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Northern Ireland Councils Criticised for £5m Vehicle Hire Bill

Council spend is a subject that is always hitting the headlines, with taxpayers eager to learn where their tax deductions are being spent.

Just today, it has been revealed that councils in Northern Ireland have spent £5m on rental vehicles in recent times; a figure that many believe to be completely absurd.

Causeway Coast and Glens were the biggest spenders of the area, with their rental fees accounting for almost half of the eye-watering £5m sum. According to the statistics, they forked out close to £2.3M on rental vehicles over the course of the past 5 years.

Following them as the second-biggest spenders were Belfast council, parting with just under £1m over the last three years.

At the other end of the spectrum we have Mid Ulster council who spent a respectable £20,000 on rental vehicles in 48 months.

Such information was required under a Freedom of Information request, seeing 11 councils participate. Though all sharing information covering a different number of years, Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough council declined, sharing no details whatsoever on how much they have spent or are spending on transport hire services.

SDLP assembly member Colin McGrath, who was responsible for gathering and presenting this data, felt the £5m sum to be ‘astounding’, being concerned with the varying rates paid by each council as well as the frequency such services were being used. Advising Northern Ireland’s authorities to invest in their own fleet, he said the following:

“These figures are astounding. This is dead money – money that is spent hiring vehicles is money that is not being invested in council fleets long term,” the South Down MLA said.

“The whole purpose and remit of the Review of Public Administration was for there to be a consistent and cost-effective approach to public spending with a view to saving the public purse – not draining it.”

Let us know your thoughts on the £5m spent on transport hire by leaving your comments below.

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A Small New York Town Plans a Profitable, 100% Renewable Energy Future

by Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA

View over Marbletown from Shawungunk Ridge. Photo by Tom Konrad

The town of Marbletown, in New York’s Hudson River Valley, is finding that problem is solving itself.

These two features are enabling this New York town, where this author resides, to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity, while also saving money.

Potential savings in annual energy costs for Marbletown residents and businesses from conversion to 100% renewable electricity. Renewable electricity at reduced cost

When the Marbletown CCA begins operating in early 2019, the vast majority of electricity used by the town’s residents will come from renewable energy resources, while lowering their costs.

Saving money with building electrification

Economic modeling of cold climate air source heat pumps by Rocky Mountain Institute.

Electric vehicles

Seasonal mismatch

Local resources

Marbletown has no wind resources of interest to wind power developers. Other than solar, its local renewable energy resources are hydropower and biomass.

Next steps

Potential paths to 100 percent renewable energy considered by the Marbletown Environmental Conservation Commission as part of an energy planning effort in conjunction with Sustainable Hudson Valley.

Here are some of the steps the town has already taken to move the town towards 100 percent renewable energy.

Completed an inventory of energy use in the town with Sustainable Hudson Valley (PDF presentation).

Removal of approximately a third of the town’s streetlights, and the replacement of the remaining lights with LEDs.

A ban on hydraulic fracking.

Installation of EV charging stations (noted above).

Obtaining a $50,000 grant for the energy retrofit of the town’s community center.

Joined the Hudson Valley Community Power CCA.

An LED lighting retrofit at the Town Highway Department.

Participated in a Solarize campaign that resulted in 16 residential solar installations in the town and 30 additional installations in the other two participating towns and beyond.

Current and planned future projects include:

Connecting several local non-taxable organizations with a solar developer willing to lease their rooftops for community solar developments.

A (mostly symbolic) ban on natural-gas connections and pipelines in the town.

Modifying the cost of building permits to favor building efficiency and electrification, and to favor heat pumps over air conditioners that lack heating capability.

The adoption of New York’s stretch energy code when it is finalized.

Working with local solar installers build community solar on municipal property and local nonprofits, such as churches and emergency responders.

Encouraging local solar installers to include a 240-volt outlet for EV charging as part of solar installations.

Burdens create opportunities

These compelling economics are enhanced by strong support for clean energy by New York state and Ulster County.

All together, these developments are setting the town of Marbletown on a path to a prosperous, clean energy future.

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A Small New York Town Plans a Profitable, 100% Renewable Energy Future

by Tom Konrad, Ph.D., CFA

View over Marbletown from Shawungunk Ridge. Photo by Tom Konrad

The town of Marbletown, in New York’s Hudson River Valley, is finding that problem is solving itself.

These two features are enabling this New York town, where this author resides, to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity, while also saving money.

Potential savings in annual energy costs for Marbletown residents and businesses from conversion to 100% renewable electricity. Renewable electricity at reduced cost

When the Marbletown CCA begins operating in early 2019, the vast majority of electricity used by the town’s residents will come from renewable energy resources, while lowering their costs.

Saving money with building electrification

Economic modeling of cold climate air source heat pumps by Rocky Mountain Institute.

Electric vehicles

Seasonal mismatch

Local resources

Marbletown has no wind resources of interest to wind power developers. Other than solar, its local renewable energy resources are hydropower and biomass.

Next steps

Potential paths to 100 percent renewable energy considered by the Marbletown Environmental Conservation Commission as part of an energy planning effort in conjunction with Sustainable Hudson Valley.

Here are some of the steps the town has already taken to move the town towards 100 percent renewable energy.

Completed an inventory of energy use in the town with Sustainable Hudson Valley (PDF presentation).

Removal of approximately a third of the town’s streetlights, and the replacement of the remaining lights with LEDs.

A ban on hydraulic fracking.

Installation of EV charging stations (noted above).

Obtaining a $50,000 grant for the energy retrofit of the town’s community center.

Joined the Hudson Valley Community Power CCA.

An LED lighting retrofit at the Town Highway Department.

Participated in a Solarize campaign that resulted in 16 residential solar installations in the town and 30 additional installations in the other two participating towns and beyond.

Current and planned future projects include:

Connecting several local non-taxable organizations with a solar developer willing to lease their rooftops for community solar developments.

A (mostly symbolic) ban on natural-gas connections and pipelines in the town.

Modifying the cost of building permits to favor building efficiency and electrification, and to favor heat pumps over air conditioners that lack heating capability.

The adoption of New York’s stretch energy code when it is finalized.

Working with local solar installers build community solar on municipal property and local nonprofits, such as churches and emergency responders.

Encouraging local solar installers to include a 240-volt outlet for EV charging as part of solar installations.

Burdens create opportunities

These compelling economics are enhanced by strong support for clean energy by New York state and Ulster County.

All together, these developments are setting the town of Marbletown on a path to a prosperous, clean energy future.

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