As wind power output across the UK continues to plummet, Matt Ridley smashes the notion that Britain is on the brink of wind and solar Nirvana, noting Britain’s so-called energy policy has turned to a risible farce.
Britain’s net zero, green energy madness is set for a head-on collision with reality
The Telegraph
Matt Ridley
23 January 2025
Meanwhile, as Eric Worrall points out, the Norwegians are determined to pull the plug on power exports to Britain, with their power consumers raging about increasing power costs, the result of exporting their electricity to power-starved Britain, every time the wind stops blowing.
Political Turmoil in Norway Threatens Britain’s Green Energy Fantasy
Watts Up With That?
Eric Worrall
2 February 2025
Charles Rotter details the total, ultimate and ultimately inevitable collapse of the giant desert solar plant, Ivanpah – a mega-failure that proves economics will eventually catch up with every great consumer/taxpayer subsidised scam.
Ivanpah Solar Plant: The Flaming Failure That’s Finally Being Put Out of Our Misery
Watts Up With That
Charles Rotter
1 February 2025
The team from Jo Nova report on a growing mutiny among Australian commercial power consumers, with food distributors demanding an instant end to the subsidised wind and solar disaster. Ever-escalating prices are crushing businesses, large and small and their operators have had enough.
Bang! Food industry says there’s a national energy emergency and calls for Labor to drop the ideology, and fast-track coal
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
3 February 2025
Russ Schussler shines a spotlight on the type of media spin that has allowed the Climate Industrial Complex to maintain the grand wind and solar transition narrative, notwithstanding the only transition in train involves supply chaos and crushing prices.
How the Green Energy Narrative confuses things
Climate Etc
Russ Schussler
30 January 2025
Meanwhile, in the People’s Republic of Victoria a 4.2MW, Vestas V136 lost its battle with gravity. The 186m high monster, sporting 68m blades, only came into operation in late 2023. All it took was a stiff breeze to send another one of these things to its earthly doom. Good riddance, you might think!
Victoria wind farm shut down after turbine collapse
Wind Watch
4 February 2025
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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