Trump’s executive order bomb, followed by Congressional action to limit funds from the IRA and IIJA, promise to gut, or profoundly reshape, the U.S. green energy movement. January 2025 may begin a long decline for green energy and a return to sensible energy policy.
Trump Truth Bombs ‘Green’ Energy (Five EOs)
Trump Truth Bombs ‘Green’ Energy (Five EOs)
28 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: solar power, wind power
UK Electricity Prices Jump to Two-Year High as Wind Power Plunges
23 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, solar power, wind power
The more wind power in the system, the greater the exposure to price spikes whenever there’s a wind lull. End result: weather-related power generation inevitably leads to higher bills for customers. – – – Low wind speeds have pushed the UK’s power prices to their highest level in two years on Tuesday, with wind generation […]
UK Electricity Prices Jump to Two-Year High as Wind Power Plunges
Biden Uses Last-Minute AI Executive Order To Force More Green Energy Onto The Grid
18 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA, resource economics Tags: solar power, wind power
The executive order is another eleventh-hour move in what appears to be an effort to stymy President-elect Donald Trump’s energy agenda, which is expected to include a vast expansion of oil and gas drilling on federal lands and waters. Biden announced a ban Monday for future offshore oil and gas activity across 625 million acres of the outer continental shelf, citing a law that could prevent a successive administration from easily reversing the policy.
Biden Uses Last-Minute AI Executive Order To Force More Green Energy Onto The Grid
More Thoughts on Blackouts
10 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood Just a couple of thoughts about the blackouts we missed by the skin of the teeth yesterday:
More Thoughts on Blackouts
How Close Were We To Blackouts Yesterday?
09 Jan 2025 Leave a comment
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By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness We came perilously close to rolling blackouts yesterday, something which I have not seen reported in the media –(correct me, I may be wrong!!). The ever alert Kathryn Porter has the full story here. This is her conclusion: The reference to the Viking I/C, by the way, is […]
How Close Were We To Blackouts Yesterday?
Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!
05 Jan 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: celebrity technologies, Germany, solar power, wind power
Recall that Germany’s green energy masterminds decided that it would be best to decommission the country’s fleet on nuclear power plants, and to produce weather-dependent power with wind farms operating in the north of country, and then supply it to southern Germany via power transmission lines. There’s on problem with the masterplan from the green masterminds: the wind doesn’t blow all the time and so shortages result and rationing becomes necessary!
Germany Already Rationing Energy…”Avoid Using Electric Appliances Until After 11 A.M.!
International Regulatory Authority Says California Grid at Risk of Energy Shortfalls
29 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: California, solar power, wind power
“With a resource portfolio that includes a substantial amount of solar [panels], the risk of supply shortfall is associated with summer evening periods when demand is high and solar output is diminished.”
International Regulatory Authority Says California Grid at Risk of Energy Shortfalls
Call in the Bailiffs: How the NZ Government’s Green Investment Fund Turned Itself Into an Unpleasant Predatory Lender and Debt Collection Agency.
16 Dec 2024 1 Comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, law and economics, politics - New Zealand, property rights Tags: solar power
The just resigned Chair of the NZ Green Investment Fund (NZGIF) and Chancellor of Auckland University, Cecilia Tarrant, previously worked at Morgan Stanley Bank in New York, starting in 1997 and finishing in 2009. She’s a very nice person, a lawyer by training, and Structured Products expert, in particular on Mortgage Backed Securities. The collapse of…
Call in the Bailiffs: How the NZ Government’s Green Investment Fund Turned Itself Into an Unpleasant Predatory Lender and Debt Collection Agency.
Reality Forces Reason into Power Choices
09 Dec 2024 2 Comments
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, politics - USA Tags: nuclear energy, solar power, wind power
Amazon executives realized their very profitable data centers would fail if they kept posturing with renewable energy.
Reality Forces Reason into Power Choices
Reality Collides: Constant Blackout Threat Spells Doom For Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
07 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
A run of calm nights (particularly during very hot or very cold weather) reveals the utter pointlessness of intermittent wind and solar. And, so it is in the land Downunder. Australia’s hard Green-Left Federal government is doing its best to stare down reality, as its grand wind and solar ‘transition’ unravels. The so-called energy ‘policy’ […]
Reality Collides: Constant Blackout Threat Spells Doom For Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Wind and Solar Can’t Support the Grid
06 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
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by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) In October of 2025, the isolated small city of Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia with a 36 MW load (including the large nearby mines) could not be reliably served by 200 MW of wind, a 53 MW solar array, significant residential solar, and a large 50 MW battery […]
Wind and Solar Can’t Support the Grid
What is the price of production at nighttime?
05 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
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Why Are UK Electricity Prices So High?
04 Dec 2024 Leave a comment
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By Paul Homewood . As we are well aware, the UK has some of the highest electricity prices in the world. It is commonly claimed that the rapid price rise in recent years has been driven by the soaring price of natural gas. In fact, this is only a small part of the story. I […]
Why Are UK Electricity Prices So High?
Part 3, Australia’s Transition to Renewable Energy
24 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
Chris Morris is a semi-retired power station engineer in New Zealand who has commented here on No Minister occasionally and on other NZ blogs. In mid 2023 he emailed me about a series of four articles he had written for the blog of Judith Curry in Australia. I published a summary of the key points […]
Part 3, Australia’s Transition to Renewable Energy
Obsession With Unreliable Wind & Solar Drives Punishing Cost of Net-Zero CO2 Delusion
24 Nov 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
Around the globe, the proles are on the march. They’ve worked out that the wind and solar ‘transition’ is the cause of their crushing power bills. In the US, contrary to almost every pundit’s prediction, Donald J Trump stormed home with a very convincing victory, grabbing control of every level of government. Trump’s promise of […]
Obsession With Unreliable Wind & Solar Drives Punishing Cost of Net-Zero CO2 Delusion
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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