Merry Christmas to our dedicated fans, followers and supporters. As 2025 draws to a close, rent-seekers are left licking their wounds, after an altogether disastrous year for those crony capitalists still hoping to profit from the massive subsidies once available for intermittent wind and solar.
Donald Trump deserves a serious lump of the credit for delivering a healthy dose of misfortune in that respect. But, power consumers left livid with the suffering caused by crushing power bills are on the march, so too the rural communities are sick of being treated as roadkill by the wind and solar ‘industries’. Erstwhile eager investors are no longer so eager, thanks to all that.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
We start with a pair from the team at Jo Nova.
In the first, the team takes justified delight in the fact that – for the whole of 2025 – only one solitary wind factory got through to financial close in Australia. However, whether the threatened disaster ever gets built is another matter.
Wind investment fell off a cliff: The industry gets excited, because the *first* wind project just got approved for 2025? (!)
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
18 December 2025
In this post the team note how the so-called “energy experts” (none of them engineers, by the way) are quietly crab walking away from their wild and hysterical claims about wind and solar completely replacing coal and gas. Apparently, the helpful hydrocarbons are now flavour of the month amongst the wind and sun cult who are terrified of what happens to the grand transition narrative when the grid completely collapses.
Bombshell: Uber-Green CSIRO admits 100% renewables is “not possible”
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
17 December 2025
Ronald Stein and David Amerine provide an update on the Trump administration’s push for a nuclear power renaissance, and the obvious reasons that nuclear is now central to US energy policy.
Nuclear-generated electricity overshadows government-subsidized wind and solar
Ronald Stein and David Amerine
America Out Loud
1 December 2025
Parker Gallant reports from Ontario on the disastrous effect its wind power obsession is having on their grid; delivering pure and unadulterated chaos, in perfect accordance with the chaos delivered by the weather.
Ontario, a Future Energy Superpower Experienced an “Energy Emergency Level 1”
Parker Gallant
Energy Perspectives
3 December 2025
Energy Bad Boys – Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling layout the unassailable fact that, wherever wind and solar dominate in the US States, those States suffer the highest retail power prices, by a country mile.
Blue States, High Rates
Substack
Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling
13 December 2025
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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