Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up

The policies of (worst ever) Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Green Party) are leading the German economy to disaster.

Germany: “Renewable Energy Sector Facing The Abyss”…”On The Brink” …Economy Breaking Up

Shipwrecked: America’s Offshore Wind Industry Being Crushed By Rising Construction Costs

2023 was the year when the offshore wind industry’s grand implosion began. Major investors bailed out as the insane cost of attempting to (occasionally) generate electricity with no commercial value in hostile marine environments began to bite. Dozens of projects have been scrapped and others are now highly doubtful. And for those wind power outfits […]

Shipwrecked: America’s Offshore Wind Industry Being Crushed By Rising Construction Costs

Tap Into Weather-Dependent Wind & Solar: Get Ready For Punishing Power Bills

Being pounded with 20% increases in power bills, year after year, is all part of the grand wind and solar transition. Every single country that’s tapped into subsidised wind and solar has seen retail power prices rocket – no exceptions. It’s one case where whatever goes up, never comes down. The promise of cheap electricity […]

Tap Into Weather-Dependent Wind & Solar: Get Ready For Punishing Power Bills

Developers Cancel Huge Offshore Wind Contract In Latest Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda

Equinor and British Petroleum (BP), the firms working in a joint venture to construct the enormous Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farm, canceled a contract with New York state to sell power generated by the project

Developers Cancel Huge Offshore Wind Contract In Latest Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda

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Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam

… foundations of sand – naïve optimism reinforced by enthusiastic lobbying divorced from engineering reality. The post Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

Britain’s Net Zero Disaster and the Wind Power Scam

Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030

By Paul Homewood   h/t Ian Magness It appears that the BBC will print any nonsense it is handed by the renewable/climate lobby:       Wasted wind power will add £40 to the average UK household’s electricity bill in 2023, according to a think tank.

Wind Curtailment Costs To Rise To £3 Billion By 2030

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The Case Against Offshore Wind

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The Case Against Offshore Wind

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‘Green Energy’ Dream Collides With Harsh Reality: Wind & Solar Just Don’t Work

When so-called ‘sustainable’ investment funds pull the plug on wind and solar, you know the party’s over. As 2023 closes out, ‘green’ energy investors are facing a brutal and harsh reality: wind and solar will never amount to meaningful power sources. Worse still, governments backing the grand wind and solar transition are having a hard […]

‘Green Energy’ Dream Collides With Harsh Reality: Wind & Solar Just Don’t Work

COP28:  Who Matters? — Follow-up

“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

Frozen Supply: Unreliable Wind & Solar Means US Faces More Winter Blackouts

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

America’s Wind Industry Implodes: More Offshore Projects Scrapped

In the US the offshore wind industry is completely underwater, in every sense. The insane cost of attempting to (occasionally) generate electricity with no commercial value in hostile marine environments has finally caught up. Projects are being scrapped in the same way that punters rip up their betting slips when their long-shot nag fails […]

America’s Wind Industry Implodes: More Offshore Projects Scrapped

Forever Cancelled: Escalating Costs Crippling Giant Offshore Wind Power Projects

The laws of economics don’t discriminate: where the costs of any venture outweigh its benefits, investors stay at home. Originally lured with the meme about wind power being free, and getting cheaper all the time, plenty of hopefuls poured cash into wind power outfits like NextEra, Avangrid and turbine manufacturers like Siemens. Lately, however, the […]

Forever Cancelled: Escalating Costs Crippling Giant Offshore Wind Power Projects

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