South Australia’s September Wind Power Blackout Cost Businesses & Households $367 Million

When, on 28 September this year, a run-of-the-mill spring storm brought buffeting winds to South Australia, wind speeds exceeded 25m/s (90km/h), the bulk of its 18 wind farms saw their turbines shutdown automatically to protect themselves from catastrophic self-destruction. Metropolitan Adelaide was without power for hours, regional centres without power for days and mines in … Continue reading South Australia’s September Wind Power Blackout Cost Businesses & Households $367 Million

Irish High Court Finds Wind Turbine Maker Liable for Noise Nuisance – 7 Irish Families to Get Millions in Punitive Damages: UPDATED 8.1.17

In a case before the Irish High Court, German wind turbine manufacturer, Enercon has just conceded liability in noise nuisance in a claim pursued by 7 families whose lives and livelihoods have been thoroughly and mercilessly destroyed by incessant turbine generated low-frequency noise and infrasound. A report on the case follows below, but first we'll … Continue reading Irish High Court Finds Wind Turbine Maker Liable for Noise Nuisance – 7 Irish Families to Get Millions in Punitive Damages: UPDATED 8.1.17

Wind Power Battery Storage Myth Battered: Total Annual Global Battery Production Would Power Germany for 30 Minutes

*** Wind industry hucksters, and their wind worshipping political enablers, like Josh Frydenberg, continue to chant the ‘battery technology is rapidly improving’ mantra, as if truckloads of giant batteries will soon magically rain down from heaven; and, thereby, save the wind industry from its imminent and inevitable demise. Not only is there NO grid-scale storage … Continue reading Wind Power Battery Storage Myth Battered: Total Annual Global Battery Production Would Power Germany for 30 Minutes

In the Post Truth World Wind is Already ‘Powering’ the Globe for Free

The experts lie about renewable energy Herald Sun Terry McCrann 29 November 2016 THE first and most important thing to understand about global warming true believers and the pushers of so-called “renewable energy” is that they lie. They lie effortlessly, seamlessly, continuously and without the slightest sense of shame. They lie deliberately and carelessly and … Continue reading In the Post Truth World Wind is Already ‘Powering’ the Globe for Free

State of Emergency: South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Hits Full-Scale Panic

It’s a little like watching the same train wreck, over and over again. South Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity is something that STT has been predicting for years. Now that the disaster has been realised, mainstream media are all over it like a tropical rash. In South Australia there is a pervasive sense of … Continue reading State of Emergency: South Australia’s Wind Power Crisis Hits Full-Scale Panic

Australia’s Energy Debacle: South Australia Just the First Victim of the LRET’s $45bn in Wind Power Subsidies & Fines

*** Last week saw Federal Energy and Environment Minister, Josh Frydenberg briefly float and then just as quickly scrap the idea of a ‘carbon’ credit trading scheme, which - as we set out in yesterday's post - counter-intuitively had the potential of avoiding a complete political disaster for the coalition. While a media scrum kicked … Continue reading Australia’s Energy Debacle: South Australia Just the First Victim of the LRET’s $45bn in Wind Power Subsidies & Fines

Frydenberg’s Carbon Credit Capers: Coalition Signals the End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Wind Power

*** A week is an awfully long time in politics and, when the subject is Australia’s calamitous energy policy, it’s a veritable aeon. When Josh Frydenberg waltzed into the Energy and Environment Portfolio, STT tried to warn the ambitious colt from Kooyong that he had, in fact, just inherited a political poisoned chalice. Last week, … Continue reading Frydenberg’s Carbon Credit Capers: Coalition Signals the End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target & Wind Power

South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Obsession Hits Crisis Point: Power Prices Rocket & More Summer Blackouts Beckon

STT has been slogging away on this battleground for nearly 4 years now. At times we’ve felt like a lone sniper taking on a German Panzer division. The dim-witted arts grads that double as 'journalists' in this country either actively joined with the wind cult in worshipping these things and crushing all those who had … Continue reading South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Obsession Hits Crisis Point: Power Prices Rocket & More Summer Blackouts Beckon

South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Experiment: Business Crippled as Power Prices Double

*** Power costs spike short-circuits onshore abalone growth The Australian Michael Owen & Verity Edwards 5 December 2016 The largest onshore abalone growing company in the southern hemisphere, whose power bill is set to rise by $650,000, has joined mining giant BHP Billiton in warning that unreliable and expensive energy costs in the southern states … Continue reading South Australia’s Disastrous Wind Power Experiment: Business Crippled as Power Prices Double

Germany Curbs Chaotic Wind Power Output to Prevent Total Grid Collapse

Germany Aims To “Throttle” Wind Energy To Avert Grid Overloading …Branch In Uncertainty No Tricks Zone Pierre Gosselin 23 November 2016 Germany’s national business daily Wirtschaftswoche here reports that the country’s Economic Minister/Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel aims implement a plan that will throttle the expansion of north Germany’s onshore wind parks — due to the … Continue reading Germany Curbs Chaotic Wind Power Output to Prevent Total Grid Collapse