Where occasionally generating power using breezes onshore is ludicrously costly, doing so offshore is positively bonkers. The exorbitant and exponentially rising costs associated with planting these things in marine environments has seen dozens upon dozens of projects scotched in the US, UK, Europe and now Australia. Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
The team from Jo Nova provide a wrap up of the inevitable transition to miserable bankruptcy for anyone fool enough to back offshore wind power outfits.
Offshore wind fantasy is crumbling against hard reality of metal, boat, cable, and money shortage
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
12 July 2025
Eric Worrall picks up the theme with the recent mega-collapse of plans for a number of mega-delusional floating offshore projects in Australia.
More Evidence of a Global Offshore Wind Project Collapse
Watts Up With That?
Eric Worrall
19 July 2025
Vijay Jayarajdraws focus on the central and unadulterated lie total by rent-seeking crony capitalists seeking to cash in on the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time, namley the hackneyed claim that chaotically generated wind and solar will inevitably replace the hydrocarbons upon which the world essentially depends.
The Green Lobby’s Dishonest Crusade for Solar and Wind
Real Clear Markets
Vijay Jayaraj
7 July 2025
Parker Gallant details the evidence that demonstrates one of wind power’s defining characteristics – its persistent failure to deliver during periods of high demand.
Wow, Five Peak Demand Days in a Row will have Climate Change Advocates Screaming
Energy Perspectives
Parker Gallant
16 July 2025
Kaie Quigleyreports on the $10.5 million settlement obtained from GE Vernova following the environmental destruction caused when one of these things engaged in some serious component liberation, spreading hundreds of tonnes of toxic fibreglass across the Nantucket shoreline.
Town, GE Vernova agree to $10.5 million settlement over wind turbine blade failure
Essential Nantucket
Kaie Quigley
18 July 2025
Net Zero Watch reports on the warning to Britain’s wind and solar industry rent-seekers presented by the Reform party’s Richard Tice. Given that Reform is now a political force to be reckoned with, its threat to strip wind and solar subsidies and deliver reliable and affordable power instead, represents a clear and present danger for crony capitalists in the UK.
Clean Power 2030 projects risk becoming stranded assets
Net Zero Watch
Press Release
17 July 2025
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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