The future
31 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Gas bills could rise by £1,000 to pay for wind power
26 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: British politics, solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Gas bills are projected to rise by around £1,000 to pay for wind power under official plans currently being considered by the Energy Secretary. Claire Coutinho received a report earlier this year that suggested moving some or all green levies from household electricity bills to gas […]
Gas bills could rise by £1,000 to pay for wind power
Battery Arbitrage
18 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - USA Tags: solar power
Solar is powering a large share of California’s energy needs during the day and batteries are now powering a significant share at night. NYTimes: Since 2020, California has installed more giant batteries than anywhere in the world apart from China. They can soak up excess solar power during the day and store it for use […]
Battery Arbitrage
Business Freeze: Germany’s Last Solar Panel Manufacturers Finally Crushed
15 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, global warming, industrial organisation, survivor principle Tags: Germany, solar power
Germany’s costly and chaotic wind and solar transition has served up plenty of casualties. Large numbers of energy intensive manufacturers have already bailed out – chasing cheap power prices in places like the US and Singapore. Now, in a rather ironic twist, its solar panel manufacturing industry has all but thrown in the towel. Notwithstanding […]
Business Freeze: Germany’s Last Solar Panel Manufacturers Finally Crushed
Propaganda Flip: Renewables Cult Claim They Never Said Wind & Solar Would Be Cheap
14 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
The wind and solar industries are struggling to win the hearts and minds of householders and businesses being belted by skyrocketing power prices. Built on lies and run on subsidies, it comes as no surprise that the truth about heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar would eventually work its way to the surface. […]
Propaganda Flip: Renewables Cult Claim They Never Said Wind & Solar Would Be Cheap
Faking It: Why ‘Cheap’ Wind & Solar Power Claims Never Stack Up
12 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
Like any ideological cult, wind and solar acolytes bury troublesome facts and replace them with oodles of helpful fiction. Start with the supposed cost of the electricity occasionally generated by wind turbines and solar panels. The usual trick is to invent some model said to capture the unique benefits of running on sunshine and breezes. […]
Faking It: Why ‘Cheap’ Wind & Solar Power Claims Never Stack Up
Zombie Apocalypse: Wind Industry Faces Total Collapse With More Projects Scrapped
10 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
The wind industry is looking a lot like a zombie apocalypse; evidently dead on its feet, but refusing to accept its mortality and die with dignity. The offshore wind industry in the US looks like a bloodbath, with dozens of major projects scrapped outright. Investors have pulled the plug, never to return. In Australia dozens […]
Zombie Apocalypse: Wind Industry Faces Total Collapse With More Projects Scrapped
Uncontrollable Surge: Daytime Solar Output Swamps Grid & Wrecks Power Market
04 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power
The chaos that’s wrecking our power supplies is what happens when engineers are replaced by ideologues. Long on cultish mantras about the ‘inevitable transition’ and the wonders of ‘free wind and solar energy’, but short on maths, physics and economics, the clowns in charge of our power supplies would have been charged with treason, not […]
Uncontrollable Surge: Daytime Solar Output Swamps Grid & Wrecks Power Market
Farmers Uninsurable Risk: Solar Factory Neighbours Face Total Financial Ruin
02 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, property rights Tags: solar power, wind power
Farmers have no hope of insuring their properties to cover damage caused to neighbouring solar factories. Public liability cover in property insurance contracts ordinarily caps out at around $20 million in Australia. As with any type of insurance, the greater the cover, the greater the premium. Although, there are certain risks that no insurer will […]
Farmers Uninsurable Risk: Solar Factory Neighbours Face Total Financial Ruin
Countries With Most Wind & Solar Generation Suffer World’s Highest Power Prices
01 May 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
As night follows day, adding more wind and solar capacity inevitably results in rocketing power prices. The hard numbers say it all. China enjoys the world’s lowest power prices, thanks to cheap, abundant and reliable coal-fired power. Adding to their advantage, China is building dozens of new coal-fired and nuclear powered plants. It’s almost as […]
Countries With Most Wind & Solar Generation Suffer World’s Highest Power Prices
Guardian: Politicians “Propagated the Myth” that Renewables are Easy
29 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
If you fell for the government propaganda that renewables are the cheapest form of energy, the Guardian will help set you straight.
Guardian: Politicians “Propagated the Myth” that Renewables are Easy
Unaffordable & Unreliable Electricity Inevitable Result of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Access to reliable and affordable power is just another thing Westerners have taken for granted, for far too long. A band of weather-obsessed ideologues have set about methodically destroying our once perfectly affordable and thoroughly reliable power supplies, by propounding the delusional notion that wind and solar can replace that well-designed system which has powered […]
Unaffordable & Unreliable Electricity Inevitable Result of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Loser Always Pays Staggering Hidden Cost of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
28 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Crony capitalists wallowing in wind and solar subsidies and their ideologue enablers make sure the buck always stops with you. The cost of those subsidies is not only endless, it is simply staggering. In Australia the combined figure for subsidies to wind and solar is now in excess of $15 billion annually, and with the […]
Loser Always Pays Staggering Hidden Cost of Wind & Solar ‘Transition’
Wind Power Scarcity Data Analysis
27 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood One of my regular contacts has analysed wind power data over the last five years, using the official half-hourly National Grid data. The analysis highlights just how intermittent wind power can be: https://www.nationalgrideso.com/data-portal/historic-generation-mix/historic_gb_generation_mix
Wind Power Scarcity Data Analysis
Grand Solar Power Rush Ends With Panels Being Used As Garden Fencing
26 Apr 2024 Leave a comment
in energy economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power
A decade from now, the wind and solar transition will resemble Alice’s trip down the rabbit hole – a place inhabited by lunatics and where nothing makes sense. Massive and seemingly endless subsidies have perverted the ordinary signals that free and open markets deliver. In Europe, the grand wind and solar rush has come to […]
Grand Solar Power Rush Ends With Panels Being Used As Garden Fencing
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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