Utopia, you are standing in it!

The relationship between rocketing power prices and chaotically intermittent wind and solar is crystal clear. Let’s call it Germany, Denmark and South Australia, where wind and solar obsessions have driven power prices into orbit.

While RE zealots continue to chant the mantra that wind and solar are practically free, and getting cheaper all the time, the reality is that the cost of their collective chaos is born by the generation system as a whole, principally those readily dispatchable sources, coal, gas and nuclear.

As detailed by Tom Stacy and George Taylor in their study of the US experience (summarised below with the full paper linked below that) adding intermittent wind and solar to your grid is a guarantee of spiralling power prices.

The Levelized Cost of Electricity from Existing Generation Resources
Institute for Energy Research
Tom Stacy and George Taylor
June 2019

Introduction

In this report, we analyze publicly available…

Boris Johnson’s prorogation announcement has generated widespread criticism, and will be hotly debated when MPs return today from their summer break. Meg Russell, Alan Renwick and Robert Hazell argue that the decision to suspend parliament for five weeks was an improper use of executive power, sets dangerous precedents, and undermines fundamental principles of our constitution. It should therefore not proceed. MPs may seek to block it, and so may the courts, but the preferable route would be for the government to recognise its mistake and reverse it.

MPs return to Westminster today after the five-week summer recess in deeply unusual and worrying circumstances. Last week Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has faced just one day of parliamentary scrutiny since taking office on 24 July, triggered a prorogation of parliament, set to last another five weeks. Particularly given the Brexit deadline of 31 October, this has caused widespread consternation: among…

Pity Boris Johnson’s opponents.  They don’t seem to be thinking as far ahead as he is. Their latest plan is to introduce emergency legislation to the UK Parliament to delay Brexit beyond 31 October.  First, he gave them the narrowest of windows to do this, before Parliament is prorogued next week. Now – the day before they hope to introduce a bill – he appeals to the public.

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Part 1: The Controversy.

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