“China having a higher share of renewables each year, while also having a massive growth in overall electricity consumption. … What does this tell us about the type and amount of capacity they add each year?” and some discussion followed as to whether China was increasing coal faster than renewables or vice-versa.
COP28: Who Matters? — Follow-up
COP28: Who Matters? — Follow-up
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
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Frozen Supply: Unreliable Wind & Solar Means US Faces More Winter Blackouts
07 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
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Northern hemisphere winters are particularly brutal on wind turbines and solar panels, the former frozen solid and the latter blanketed in snow and ice. The result being no power from either. Peak winter conditions are perfect for revealing the peak stupidity of attempting to power first world economies with generation systems that deliver nothing but […]
Frozen Supply: Unreliable Wind & Solar Means US Faces More Winter Blackouts
Solar Power Auction Prices Raised By 30%
26 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
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By Paul Homewood There’s one more thing to note about this announcement: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/boost-for-offshore-wind-as-government-raises-maximum-prices-in-renewable-energy-auction As well as the massive price rises for offshore wind, prices have also been increased for solar power:
Solar Power Auction Prices Raised By 30%
Fossil fuels are back: Shell takes axe to its ‘Low Carbon’ division
01 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
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High demand for a profitable product is a winning formula for commercial success and oil companies aren’t going to be slow to cash in on current prices, no matter what climate obsessives or politicians may say or think. Hydrogen-related roles get squeezed due to slack market interest. Meanwhile renewables firms seek ever larger handouts. – […]
Fossil fuels are back: Shell takes axe to its ‘Low Carbon’ division
Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Leaves Germans Suffering Europe’s Highest Power Prices
05 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
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German power prices, already the highest in Europe, have gone stratospheric. Once Europe’s industrial powerhouse, Germany is fast headed for economic ruin and social disaster. 20 years back, Germany’s Green/Socialist utopians – utterly detached from reality – dreamt up the ‘Energiewende’. However, the purported ‘transition’ to an all-wind and sun-powered future has turned dystopian nightmare. […]
Wind & Solar ‘Transition’ Leaves Germans Suffering Europe’s Highest Power Prices
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01 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
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Solar and wind are bugger all
15 Nov 2022 Leave a comment
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Spot on
25 Oct 2022 Leave a comment
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Part-time power
06 Oct 2022 Leave a comment
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Part-time power
04 Jul 2022 Leave a comment
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Which energy is free?
30 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
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