In the past five years, the number of applications to connect to the electricity grid — many of them for solar energy generation and storage — has increased tenfold, with waits of up to 15 years. The underinvestment is restricting the flow of cheap energy from Scottish wind farms to population centers in England and adding to […]
Why Britain’s economy is failing
Why Britain’s economy is failing
04 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, land supply, zoning
04 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, environmental economics, global warming Tags: climate alarmism

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03 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy, celebrity technologies, wind power

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India Determined To Increase Coal Output
01 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: India

By Paul Homewood h/t Dennis Ambler This is in the latest edition of World Coal While growth in coal production slows gradually across the globe, India is setting itself apart from other countries, with its ambitions to aggressively increase its output.
India Determined To Increase Coal Output
Buick Dealers Fleeing the Net Zero EV Revolution
31 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle

“… we’ve given dealers who are not aligned with Buick’s future to exit voluntarily in a respectful and structured way …”
Buick Dealers Fleeing the Net Zero EV Revolution
Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, wind power
… foundations of sand – naïve optimism reinforced by enthusiastic lobbying divorced from engineering reality. The post Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam
Time to Bring Nuclear Energy Into the 21st Century
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: atomic energy
The silver lining of this month’s United Nations COP28 global warming conference is the growing consensus that nuclear energy is critical to meeting national carbon dioxide reduction goals.
Time to Bring Nuclear Energy Into the 21st Century
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: Australia, coal power
Queensland’s long reigning premier Annastacia Palaszczuk may have cut and run in the face of negative polls and a looming election, but her successor’s plan to accelerate coal job losses will help?
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
30 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: wind power

By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness It appears that the BBC will print any nonsense it is handed by the renewable/climate lobby: Wasted wind power will add £40 to the average UK household’s electricity bill in 2023, according to a think tank.
Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030
Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record
28 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: China
I wonder how their solar panels and frost sensitive EVs are working out for them?
Beijing Breaks Seven Decade Cold Weather Record
Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda
27 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming
“I think the investor class has grown weary of the industry’s lack of profitability,” Blink Charging’s CEO Brendan Jones told the WSJ. EV charging companies once received lofty valuations from investors, Jones told the WSJ. The post Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda first appeared on Watts Up With That?.
Investors Are Turning on A Key Pillar of Biden’s Climate Agenda
Hottest In 125,000 Years?
26 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming
Anybody who claims that this year is the hottest for 125,000 years is fraudulent.
Hottest In 125,000 Years?
After COP28: What Transition From Hydrocarbons?
25 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in development economics, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming

How Do You Want Your Energy ‘Transition’? Mario Loyola wrote at The Wall Street Journal The Impossible Energy ‘Transition’. Excerpts in italics with my bolds. After two weeks of negotiation, the United Nations climate conference in Dubai agreed last week to “transition away” from fossil fuels. Left unanswered is whether governments are supposed to do […]
After COP28: What Transition From Hydrocarbons?
EV Push Imploding
25 Dec 2023 1 Comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming

Levi Russell writes at Heartland The Rush to Force Everyone into Electric Vehicles is Imploding. Excerpts in italics with my bolds and added images. A recently published article in the peer-reviewed academic journal Transportation Research tells us that cars, even the supposedly anointed battery electric variety, are far too convenient and that the state must be empowered to “restrict […]
EV Push Imploding

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