2026 will go down in history as the moment when sanity finally returned to energy policy across the globe. The big switch started in the USA, where the turnaround is being driven by a man who hates these things with a passion.
The Germans and Danes led the charge with their suicidal subsidised wind and solar obsession. The economic disasters that inevitably followed have provided the perfect examples; self-made catastrophes that can be oh so readily avoided.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
The team from Jo Nova showcase an address given by Chris Wright, the US Secretary of Energy. Wright might win the Nobel Prize for stating the bleeding obvious, but after 20 years of massive subsidies to chaotically intermittent wind and solar, and generally disastrous energy policy across the West, someone has to deliver the hard, cold truth.
Chris Wright — We’re in the greatest Malinvestment in Human History
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
10 January 2026
The team follow-up with this gobsmacking report from Western Australia, where the scumbags from the wind industry continue to lose friends and alienate hard-working rural people by continuing to treat them as roadkill and their properties as something that belongs to the Climate Industrial Complex.
Next door’s wind farm can stop you building a home on your own land
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
8 January 2026
Will Jones reports on the scale and scope of the scam in Scotland, where huge volumes electricity generated by these things offshore simply has no commercial value, other than the “constraint payments” that the operators get when they can’t get rid of their electricity because nobody wants it. Leaving taxpayers on the hook for countless £billions.
Scotland’s Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Wasting Three Quarters of Energy
The Daily Sceptic
Will Jones
7 January 2026
James Flanders follows the same thread with this piece that reports on how total “constraint” payments to wind power outfits rose from a mindblowing £1.23billion to a simply staggering £1.46billion this year and are likely to top £8billion a year by 2030.
Britain spent £1.5bn in 2025 to turn off wind farms and fire up gas plants when electric grid couldn’t cope
Scottish Sun
James Flanders
30 December 2025
Bert Weteringe uncovers data on the wind industry’s well-known habit of making wild estimates about the amount of power these things can generate, over time. Overstating output in advance might sound great when pitching a project that the lie soon unravels. And it seems that the more turbines that get added in any locality, the wilder the overestimate of actual output.
Offshore wind turbines steal each other’s wind: yields greatly overestimated
Clintel
Bert Weteringe
30 December 2025
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
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