**** In our earlier posts (here and here) we outlined the fact that – under the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - retailers are fined $65 per MWh for every MW they fall below the mandated 41,000 GWh annual target: what’s called the “shortfall charge” - follow the links here and here. With less than 23,000 … Continue reading Power Punters Face $billions in “Fines” as Mandatory RET Deemed “Doomed to Fail”
Category: Big wind industry
Canadians Fight Back Against Ontario’s Wind Farm Onslaught
Canada’s Sun News was among the first news outfits worldwide to grasp the scale and scope of the great wind power fraud; and the associated harm inflicted on hard-working rural people. And Sun's Ezra Levant led the charge, doing what real journalists do: getting the truth out, despite the efforts of those who seek to … Continue reading Canadians Fight Back Against Ontario’s Wind Farm Onslaught
Big Wind’s Totally Bogus Subsidy Adventure
If time-travelling teens from the future (a world where wind farms had long since been cut up for scrap) lobbed into 2014, they’d be “totally bummed out” at what must have happened to our collective intelligence to end up with giant fans at centre-stage of today’s “modern” energy policy. They’d think the idea of trying … Continue reading Big Wind’s Totally Bogus Subsidy Adventure
Wind Turbines: lucky to last 10 Years
Dr Gordon Hughes is a Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh and a while back produced this cracking study which destroyed yet another wind industry myth about the longevity of these things: windfarm peformance UK hughes.19.12.12. Instead of the much touted 25 years, the output from modern turbines starts to drop significantly after … Continue reading Wind Turbines: lucky to last 10 Years
Wind Farms: Nothing More than Power-Grid-Parasites
**** Apart from the insane cost of propping up near bankrupt wind power outfits – like Infigen – with $ billions in subsidies in the form of the REC Tax/Subsidy – the wind industry gets to “free-ride” on the Australian electricity consumer in at least 2 ways. The first is getting preferential distribution of the … Continue reading Wind Farms: Nothing More than Power-Grid-Parasites
RET Review Panel says: Now THAT’S a Submission
In the week just gone, eco-fascist blogs like yes2ruining-us and ruin-economy have crowed about their team sending 23 million submissions to the RET Review Panel (okay, so we’ve exaggerated a bit, but so did they – and you get our point). Likewise, the Twitter-sphere has seen a flurry of self-congratulatory messages from the lunatic fringe … Continue reading RET Review Panel says: Now THAT’S a Submission
The Renewable Energy Target & the REC Tax: a Political Time-Bomb for Tony Abbott
**** Following the Coalition’s first budget, Australian political discourse is bouncing firmly along the bottom of the gutter. Barrackers for the hard-green-left lunatic fringe - like the ABC, SBS and the Fairfax Press - have taken to seizing on Coalition “horrors”: like the fact that the Treasurer and Finance Minister were unrepentant about being “caught” … Continue reading The Renewable Energy Target & the REC Tax: a Political Time-Bomb for Tony Abbott
UK’s “Green” Wind Power Policy Turns to “Gangrene”
**** Britain’s energy policy is clearly “other worldly” (see our post here) and/or the product of a “finer” kind of thinking (see our post here). When it comes to giant fans, the Brits’ political betters are yet to work out that they’ve been stung by the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. One … Continue reading UK’s “Green” Wind Power Policy Turns to “Gangrene”
Australia’s Miners say: “Tony, it’s Time for the Great Big Toxic REC Tax to GO”
**** As the RET Review Panel get ready to help axe the mandatory Renewable Energy Target, Australia’s miners have united to brand the RET a guaranteed “job killer” and just “plain crazy”. The miners quite rightly identify the Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) issued under that policy as an enormous and unnecessary cost burden to households … Continue reading Australia’s Miners say: “Tony, it’s Time for the Great Big Toxic REC Tax to GO”
Crime Doesn’t Pay – Crooked Chinese Wind Turbine Maker, Sinovel Hits the Wall
**** China is held up by eco-fascists as a paragon of "green" energy virtue. They point to the fact that China is home to some of the largest giant fan makers in the world – and that it pumps out millions of rooftop solar panels - which are both exported around the globe. But they … Continue reading Crime Doesn’t Pay – Crooked Chinese Wind Turbine Maker, Sinovel Hits the Wall
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