Germany’s Monumental Environmental Fail: CO2 Emissions Rise Despite €Trillions Blown on Subsidised Wind & Solar

In Germany, around €190 billion has already been burnt on renewable subsidies; currently the green energy levy costs €56 million every day. And, the level of subsidy for wind and solar sees Germans paying €20 billion a year for power that gets sold on the power exchange for around €2 billion. Energy poverty is a … Continue reading Germany’s Monumental Environmental Fail: CO2 Emissions Rise Despite €Trillions Blown on Subsidised Wind & Solar

Australia’s Energy Debacle: Politicians Fiddle While Rome Burns

*** Alan Moran needs no intro to STT followers. Here he gives the morally bankrupt idiots that pretend to govern us a well-deserved spray, over the energy debacle that has turned Australia - once an energy power house - into an international joke. Trump and Australian political dithering over energy costs Catallaxy Files Alan Moran … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle: Politicians Fiddle While Rome Burns

SA’s Wind Power Debacle: AEMO Cuts SA’s Access to Victorian Power to Protect the Grid

SA’s plan to import electricity from Victoria a threat to stability: AEMO The Australian Michael Owen 21 January 2017 A plan for South Australia to import­ more baseload power from Victoria to ease its power crisis has been suspended by the national electricity market operator because of a “potential stabil­ity issue” linked to the state’s … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle: AEMO Cuts SA’s Access to Victorian Power to Protect the Grid

Getting Away with Murder: How the Wind Industry Rigged Noise Rules Around the World

In our timeline post – Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge – we covered the fact that – from 1995 – the wind industry drew together a hand-picked team with a mission to write noise rules with absolutely no relevance to wind turbine noise; and, … Continue reading Getting Away with Murder: How the Wind Industry Rigged Noise Rules Around the World

Australia’s Energy Debacle Unplugged: Liberal Senator Chris Back Slams Wind Power

There are very few Australian politicians who have bothered to do the slightest bit of homework on Australia's energy policy, and even fewer still have taken the time to understand how Australia's ridiculous renewable energy targets have destroyed once reliable grids and driven power prices through the roof. One who has managed to get to … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle Unplugged: Liberal Senator Chris Back Slams Wind Power

Australia’s Renewable Target in Tatters: Major Retailers Shun Wind & Solar, Electing to Pay $Millions in Retail Power Fines Instead

*** In the week just gone, yet another of STT’s predictions unfolded, with devastating consequences for Australia’s Large-Scale RET and the remnants of a battered and beleaguered wind industry. The LRET was slashed in 2015 simply to avoid the political embarrassment of having too little eligible renewable power dispatched to satisfy the 41,000 GWh target … Continue reading Australia’s Renewable Target in Tatters: Major Retailers Shun Wind & Solar, Electing to Pay $Millions in Retail Power Fines Instead

Wind Turbine Ice Capades: German Wind Farm Neighbour Cheats Death, Dodging Flying Ice Chunks

*** Over the last few weeks German wind turbines have been stubbornly refusing to produce much power at all, while a frightening number have, instead, determined to completely self-destruct, with a rash of collapses, component liberation events (aka blade throws) and self-immolations (see our post here and below). Adding a distinctly cool flavour to the … Continue reading Wind Turbine Ice Capades: German Wind Farm Neighbour Cheats Death, Dodging Flying Ice Chunks

Wind Power Insanity: Queensland Labor’s Renewable Policy Off the Wall

*** As if the example set by South Australia's disastrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes could somehow be avoided, Labor Premier Annastacia Palasz­czuk is hell-bent on following SA back to the Dark Ages. The Queensland government is packed with wannabe wind cultists (Queensland has only a couple of tiny wind farms to its … Continue reading Wind Power Insanity: Queensland Labor’s Renewable Policy Off the Wall

Wind Power Setting the World on Fire: Infigen Sparks Devastating NSW Bushfire

On 17 January 2017, wind farm operator Infigen sparked a blaze that ripped across the southern Tablelands of NSW and destroyed 3,400 hectares (8,400 acres), hundreds of sheep and cattle, sheds and at least one home. STT's operatives in NSW have been on the scene, collecting photographs and speaking with local landowners about the cause … Continue reading Wind Power Setting the World on Fire: Infigen Sparks Devastating NSW Bushfire

Wind Power Debacle: Retail Businesses Belted by South Australia’s Rocketing Power Prices

In 2002, then Labor Premier, Mike Rann hitched South Australia's wagon to wind power. 15 years later, his successors and former subjects get to reap what he sowed. A grid on the brink of collapse, routine load shedding and statewide blackouts have left South Australia an international laughing stock. Its vapid Premier, Jay Weatherill occupies … Continue reading Wind Power Debacle: Retail Businesses Belted by South Australia’s Rocketing Power Prices