With the addition of every wind turbine and solar panel, electricity grids inch closer to their inevitable collapse. The wind and sun cult remain delusional and rent-seekers wallowing in massive subsidies couldn’t care less.
As certain as death and taxes, every single MW of chaotically intermittent wind and solar capacity has to be matched, somewhere in the grid, by a dispatchable MW of capacity, which means coal, gas, nuclear (or where available, hydro). Oh, and batteries don’t count – they operate at the margins to provide occasional frequency control, rather than acting as generators delivering power to fill the gaps when wind and solar output inevitably collapse.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup, kicking off with the team from Jo Nova making the very point outlined above, courtesy of the ultimate reality check – the dead calm night.
A cold windless evening shakes $600m out of the Australian electricity grid
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
27 June 2025
Eric Worrall directs his attention to the effect all that wind and solar chaos is having on Australian retail power prices, which are rocketing out of control.
Australia’s Net Zero Grid to Face Strict Government Price Controls
Watts Up With That?
Eric Worrall
21 June 2025
Audrey Steb takes a look at the effect of Donald J Trump’s visceral hatred towards the wind industry on offshore projects, dozens of which have been shelved or ditched for good.
Biden’s Offshore Wind Dreams Drowning As Trump Guts Industry
Daily Caller
Audrey Steb
20 June 2025
Paul Mueller heralds the inevitable decline of solar; with subsidies and/or insanely generous feed in tariffs being slashed for domestic solar, installers are facing an inevitable economic Armageddon.
Sunnova Bankruptcy Signals Tough Times for Solar
The Daily Economy
Paul Mueller
18 June 2025
Ronald Stein and Roger Calzza tackle one of the greater modern abuses of the English language, smashing the notion that there is anything even vaguely ‘renewable’ about forests of wind turbines and seas of solar panels.
The greatest oxymoron statement of all time: ‘Renewable Energy’
America Out Loud
Ronald Stein and Roger Calzza
16 June 2025
In another win for neighbours forced to endure the sonic torture delivered up by these things, judgment against the Gibbet Hill wind farm in County Wexford, Ireland was handed down on 5 June. The plaintiffs went all the way and ended with orders permanently restraining the turbines that were driving them nuts with their merciless mechanical cacophony.
Case Summary
Case Mine
5 June 2025
Download a PDF of the full Gibbet Hill Judgement.
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
STOP THESE THINGS 
In the meantime we are paying through the nose for power
From now on a Solar Farm should be properly referred to as a Solar Catcher (so aptly named by Chris Ulhmann), referring to the fact that a Solar panel does not generate electricity by burning the fuel (Sunshine), but instead catches it and converts it into electricity. The huge disadvantage that a Solar catcher has that it has no control over the availability or quantity of its fuel (Sunshine) supply. Particularly with the supply of Sunshine being restricted by 16 hours of darkness every night and whenever cloud or rain covers the sky. This daily restriction and uncertainty of fuel availability makes a Solar catcher completely unsuitable and uneconomic to ever be an electricity supplier to a Grid that requires a reliable, constant supply of baseload electricity 24hrs a day, 7days a week (24/7).
Equally, a Wind Farm is referred to as a Wind Catcher, referring to the fact that a Wind Turbine does not generate electricity by burning the fuel (Wind at the right speed), but instead catches it and converts it into electricity. The huge disadvantage that a Wind catcher has that it has no control over the availability or quantity of its fuel (Wind at the right speed) supply. Particularly with the supply of suitable wind (at a speed of between 12kms/hr and 90kms/hr) being required. This supply of suitable wind is restricted by gales and more importantly by wind droughts, that can last for hours, days and even weeks. The uncertainty and intermittency of fuel availability makes a Wind catcher completely unsuitable and uneconomic to ever be an electricity supplier to a Grid that requires a reliable, constant supply of baseload electricity 24hrs a day, 7days a week (24/7).
Both are only designed to catch subsidies. Their owners couldn’t care less if they deliver power. Because they suffer no penalty when they produce nothing, but we do.
They’re all really Subsidy Farms.