Wind and solar are said to be ‘cheap’, but then so’s talk. 2021 was the year when wind and solar were revealed to be thoroughly useless, thanks to their inherent intermittency and general lack of reliability.
Starting in September last year, for months on end, Europe’s wind power fleet struggle to produce any consistent power of any value, at all. Week after week, wind power output barely registered in Germany and the UK.
Unable to deliver even occasional bursts of power, Europe’s wind industry was relegated to the status of a laughingstock, while Germans and British fired up their old coal-fired power plants, the only thing preventing a wholesale grid collapse.
The renewable energy debacle wasn’t confined to Europe, as Robert Bryce details below.
Seven Top Energy Stories of 2021
Forbes
Robert Bryce
31 December 2021
It has been a chaotic year in the energy sector. And with just a…
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