The subsdised wind scam is dying a natural death around the globe, but in the USA its demise was both brutal and sudden.
The wind industry met its match when Donald J Trump took the presidency for a second time.
The President made no secret about his hatred of the greatest environmental and economic fraud of all time, singling out offshore wind as the most ludicrous example of ideologically driven bureaucrats being totally captured by subsidy-sucking rent seekers.
As night follows day, the moment the subsidies dry up, the ‘green’ energy scam dies a natural death. Trump’s attack on the offshore wind scam has wind power outfits scrambling for the exits and investors running for the hills. They know the game is over, but it was lucrative fun while it lasted.
Which brings us to this week’s roundup.
In this article, Adrijana Buljan reports on how offshore wind power outfits are ditching dozens of massive projects up and down the Atlantic coast. Instead, as part of the settlements with the US government, they have agreed to pour money into meaningful power generation and distribution onshore.
US Government reaches USD 1.2 billion offshore wind exit deal with RWE
offshorewind.biz
Adrijana Buljan
7 August 2026
In this video podcast, Ben Beattie unpacks the ‘wind and solar are cheap’ myth, by simply using the real-world data that demonstrates the contrary. This one is perfectly made for sharing with those who still believe the scammer’s hype.
What nobody’s telling you about renewables and prices
Powerlines
Ben Beattie
6 August 2026
Eric Worrall reports on the collision between delusion and reality playing out in Australia, where the Federal Green/Labor Alliance is keen to get a slice of the AI data centre action, but only if these extremely power-hungry operations are prepared to run on nothing but sunshine and breezes, generated by their very own turbines and solar panels. The Feds might be keen, but Queensland and the Northern Territory have already rejected the grand delusion out of hand.
Queensland and Northern Territory Openly Rebel Against Aussie Green Data Center Mandates
Watts Up With That?
Eric Worrall
2 August 2026
We closeout this week with 2 cracking posts from the team at Jo Nova.
In the first, they report on the diabolical consequences of Federal Labor’s massively subsidised home battery scam. The cost of which has already hit up taxpayers for more than $8 billion. But it’s the chaotic design of the scheme that’s helping to undermine grid stability which has already anxious grid managers sweating like (un-airconditioned) Europeans in a heatwave.
The Great Battery Bungle: Taxpayers Paid Billions for Batteries the Grid Can’t Use
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
8 August 2026
In this post, the team reveals that, just when Australians thought the subsidised wind and solar scam lunacy had reached peak-stupid, their hapless Energy Minister, Chris Bowen has outdone even himself, with a plan to throw $billions more in taxpayer’s money at commercial enterprises to get them to plaster their sheds and warehouses with solar panels to generate more power in the middle of the day, in a market already flooded with hard to control solar power.
Bombs away: desperate Chris Bowen throws more solar subsidies at business, paid for in our electricity bills
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
5 August 2026
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
STOP THESE THINGS 
THE NET ZERO NIGHTMARE
IS THERE A MORE DISASTROUS PUBLIC POLICY BLUNDER ON RECORD?
What comes second?
Wind and solar capacity are not real capacity because they ain’t there on windless nights.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/wind-and-solar-aint-capacity
Batteries are not the answer. Just ask Bill Gates😊
Besides, wind and solar don’t generate enough energy to reproduce themselves. That means they are a net drain on the energy economy of the world.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/wind-and-solar-are-parasites-on-the
WHAT IS THE COST/BENEFIT RATIO OF NET ZERO?
How much has net zero cost up to date, including the cost of the programs and the damage?
What are the benefits?
In other words, how much would you like to pay to get more expensive electricity looming blackouts in catastrophic environmental damage?
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/how-much-would-you-be-prepared-to
THE BEAUTIFUL BENEFITS OF WARMING AND CO2
Throughout recorded history, the warm times have been the good times. In the coldest times, life was truly nasty, brutish and short. The warming since the Little Ice Age has been unequivocally beneficial and we are still a degree or three short of the Roman Warm Period which was the best time for humans and other living things. If we are lucky, we might get two or three degrees of warming before we turn the corner and start the downhill run into the next cold spell.
Fear of warming and plant food is driving the greatest misallocation of resources ever, with trillions of dollars worldwide, wasted on the failing transition to wind and solar power.
Thanks Rafe, helpful observations as always.