The ultimate cost of renewable energy virtue signalling is truly crippling, wind and solar-obsessed Britain is a case in point. Power prices have doubled over the span of a few months and will quadruple as energy demand spikes again in winter.
Attempting to ditch its coal-fired power plants (and converting them to run on wood pellets imported from the US) was never going to end well.
The first sign of trouble in wind-powered paradise began in September last year when (and for months following) Britain’s much heralded wind-powered future ran headlong into reality when the Big Calm struck. Wind power output was reduced to a risible trickle across the continent. The Brits were forced to fire up their mothballed coal-fired power plants, and wholesale power prices went through the roof.
Natural forces continued to conspire into November: on 2 and 3 November, wind power output across the UK once…
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