High electricity rates aren’t an unavoidable consequence of modern life or federal policy. They are the predictable outcome of state-level choices that ignore reliability, undervalue dispatchable generation, and impose rigid mandates regardless of cost. Americans deserve leaders who recognize that keeping the lights on at a modest price isn’t optional. The states keeping electricity affordable…
High Electricity Prices Are a Choice Blue States Make Every Day
High Electricity Prices Are a Choice Blue States Make Every Day
08 Jan 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: solar power, wind power
Miliband Claims High Energy Bills Due To Fossil Fuels
02 Jan 2026 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: wind power, solar power, climate alarmism, British politics, climate activists
Ed Miliband has been caught telling porkies again
Miliband Claims High Energy Bills Due To Fossil Fuels
Forecasting The Vagaries of Wind Power
27 Dec 2025 Leave a comment
in energy economics Tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood h/t Joe Public Joe has been keeping tabs on NESO’s predictions of wind power output. Looks like they leave a lot to be desired! https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/wind-generation The red triangles mark the initial forecasts, which are published two days beforehand.
Forecasting The Vagaries of Wind Power
The Wind Energy Paradox: “Why More Wind Turbines Don’t Always Mean More Power”
20 Dec 2025 1 Comment
in energy economics Tags: Germany, wind power
The Munich-based daily Merkur is finally reporting on something that sus keptics have been pointing out some 20 years: Wind turbines always either produce too little or too much, and are thus uneconomical and unreliable. Image: Vernunftkraft.de In a recent insightful interview with Merkur.de, Prof. Dr. Sigismund Kobe, a renowned physicist from the TU Dresden,…
The Wind Energy Paradox: “Why More Wind Turbines Don’t Always Mean More Power”
Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
14 Dec 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: celebrity technologies, solar power, wind power
Policymakers would do well to heed energy experts like Schernikau and Stein. Chasing luxury beliefs do not cost well-heeled climate bureaucrats and renewables ideologues much, but the burdens of irrational energy policies will be borne by the world’s poorest. The real path forward lies in pragmatic, technology-neutral approaches that prioritise energy abundance over austerity.
Time to Stop Pretending Renewables Are Cheap
Claim: Renewable Australia will Have No Problem with Zero Generation Days
08 Oct 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - Australia Tags: solar power, wind power
A new study suggests blackouts will only happen sometimes, if we build enough batteries and overcapacity, and a hydrogen export industry.
Claim: Renewable Australia will Have No Problem with Zero Generation Days
Why Are Electricity Prices So High?–Dieter Helm
29 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in applied price theory, economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation Tags: British politics, climate activists, wind power
By Paul Homewood Why is the price of electricity so high? It’s a puzzle, because successive politicians (Blair, Cameron, May, Johnson and now Starmer and Miliband) and lots of lobbyists have told us we should have expected quite the opposite: cheap energy, to be achieved by getting out of fossil fuels. First exit […]
Why Are Electricity Prices So High?–Dieter Helm
The Battery Storage Delusion
25 Aug 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood Dr Lars Schernikau exposes the harsh reality about grid-scale batteries: My first moped when I was fourteen, back in East Berlin, had no starter battery. The only way to get it running was to kickstart it which, back then, seemed perfectly normal. Batteries were expensive and heavy. My current […]
The Battery Storage Delusion
Trump Admin Moves To Curb ‘Environmentally Damaging’ Green Energy Projects
04 Aug 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, economics of regulation, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, politics - USA Tags: solar power, wind power
The Department of the Interior (DOI) moved to deal another blow to the green energy industry Friday, announcing that it will consider energy projects’ capacity density and the environmental impacts before permitting them, singling out wind and solar.
Trump Admin Moves To Curb ‘Environmentally Damaging’ Green Energy Projects
New Offshore Wind Is Now Twice The Price Of Gas
27 Jul 2025 Leave a comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: wind power
By Paul Homewood https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contracts-for-difference-cfd-allocation-round-7-administrative-strike-prices-methodology-note As we know, the new Administrative Strike Prices for offshore wind are well above wholesale market prices, which have been trundling along at between £70 and £80/MWh for the last year or so:
New Offshore Wind Is Now Twice The Price Of Gas
Clean Power 2030 projects risk becoming stranded assets
22 Jul 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: British politics, climate activists, solar power, wind power
By Paul Homewood London: 17 July 2025 For immediate release Net Zero Watch: Clean Power 2030 projects risk becoming stranded assets Reform’s Richard Tice has written to green energy bosses warning them that a Nigel Farage-led government would terminate green subsidy contracts associated with Labour’s Clean Power 2030 agenda. He argues that the […]
Clean Power 2030 projects risk becoming stranded assets
‘Outright Massacre’: Senate GOP Takes Sledgehammer To Biden’s Green Energy Subsidies
30 Jun 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, fiscal policy, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
The Senate dealt a series of blows to solar and wind energy in the latest version of President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill — taking a page out of House Republicans’ playbook to crack down on green energy tax credits enacted under former President Joe Biden.
‘Outright Massacre’: Senate GOP Takes Sledgehammer To Biden’s Green Energy Subsidies
G-7: Africans Deserve Real Electricity
20 Jun 2025 1 Comment
in development economics, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: solar power, wind power
Those that aspire to net-zero are condemning Africa to extreme poverty. Those that promote African access to fossil fuels, want Africans to have the chance to rise up.
G-7: Africans Deserve Real Electricity
Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets
20 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming, industrial organisation Tags: solar power, wind power
by Planning Engineer (Russ Schussler) Part 3 of this series examines power markets, promoted by policymakers (FERC) and industry advocates to lower costs through competitive bidding and merit-order dispatch. While markets can optimize resource allocation in many sectors, they struggle to deliver affordability and reliability in electricity systems dominated by intermittent renewables. This post first […]
Why “cheaper” wind and solar raise costs. Part III: The problem with power markets
Germany’s Renewable Energy Overcapacity Is Pushing The Power Grid To The Limit
12 Jun 2025 1 Comment
in economics of climate change, energy economics, environmental economics, environmentalism, global warming Tags: Germany, solar power, wind power
By Frank Bosse at Klimanachrichten (Translated, edited by P. Gosselin) “Too much electricity is also a danger.” With that headline, Germany’s “n-tv” surprised its readers on Pentecost Sunday. Attentive readers of “Klimanachrichten” already knew this beforehand: The past holiday weekend was a stress test for our electricity grid: The sun is very high, provides a…
Germany’s Renewable Energy Overcapacity Is Pushing The Power Grid To The Limit
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