**** On the rare occasions when wind power is able to deliver meaningful output to the grid – usually at night-time - generators are more than happy for the dispatch price (the price paid by the grid operator to generators) to hit zero - and have even paid the grid operator to take their output, … Continue reading Perverse Renewables Policy turns Wind Power into Super-Predator
Category: Big wind politics
Alan Moran: Scrap the RET and let Australian business compete again
**** Stop renewable subsidies to allow lower electricity prices and competitive industry Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 24 April 2014 The RET Review brought the usual howls of anguish from the rent seekers concerned that regulatory measures will cease and that they will need to sell their wind and solar products on the open market. That … Continue reading Alan Moran: Scrap the RET and let Australian business compete again
Dave Cameron sends wind power offshore and consigns Brits to economic dustbin
**** David Cameron’s so-called "Conservatives" have seemingly ditched plans to roll out thousands of giant fans across the hills and dales of Old Blighty. Faced with a brewing voter backlash from their own rural constituents about the negative impacts Britain’s great wind rush has had upon the landscape, property values and the ability of neighbours … Continue reading Dave Cameron sends wind power offshore and consigns Brits to economic dustbin
Australia’s Wind Industry Finally Faces its “Waterloo”
**** During the latter part of the French Revolution a diminutive Corsican took charge of French affairs, installing himself as First Consul in 1799; and, in 1804, anointing himself French Emperor - adopting the tag Napoleon I. The little Emperor bestrode Europe and - with his Grande Armée - from 1803 to 1815 generally gave … Continue reading Australia’s Wind Industry Finally Faces its “Waterloo”
Wind Power: Failing to “win hearts & minds” – or “when push comes to shove”
Wherever it tries to set up shop these days, the wind industry faces growing “community opposition”. This “dreadful” phenomenon has arisen all over the world. Could the "soundtrack" to this video provide a clue, perhaps? **** **** Covered in this post - Cape Bridgewater locals have not only had to tolerate an endless barrage of … Continue reading Wind Power: Failing to “win hearts & minds” – or “when push comes to shove”
Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster
STT has focused on the debacle that is German renewable policy this week, taking a close look at its disastrous renewables policy - the product of an economic suicide pact endorsed by Germany's "Grand Coalition" tagged "GroKo". The GroKo - which cops a belting in this skit from a popular TV news/comedy show - is … Continue reading Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster
UK’s Wind Rush Leaves Grid Vulnerable to Collapse & Power Punters Foot the Bill
Like the Germans, the Brits are now reaping the whirlwind of their insane renewable energy policy. Not only have power prices skyrocketed, the perverse economics of that policy has left the UK grid vulnerable to complete collapse. Britain’s energy needs have been so mismanaged - and the incentives filched from taxpayers and power consumers and … Continue reading UK’s Wind Rush Leaves Grid Vulnerable to Collapse & Power Punters Foot the Bill
Want skyrocketing power prices? Just add Wind Power
**** With the Coalition’s review of the insanely expensive and utterly ineffective Renewable Energy Target (ineffective if the object was meant to be reducing CO2 emissions in the electricity sector) headed up by a team of hard-nosed economic rationalists, ready to take an axe to most ludicrous energy policy ever devised, the wind industry and … Continue reading Want skyrocketing power prices? Just add Wind Power
Wind Power Costs send Germans back to the Stone Age
**** If you're going down to the German woods today, beware of a big surprise. Although it won't be cuddly Teddys with well-stocked picnic baskets and wonderful games to play - chances are it'll be a power starved German armed with an axe, looking to filch a pile of timber to cook his bratwurst and … Continue reading Wind Power Costs send Germans back to the Stone Age
Wind Power: Germany’s Road to Economic & Social Disaster
**** In our last post we covered the fact that German economists have (uncharacteristically) united in their opposition to Germany's renewables policy - referred to as the "Energiewende" - which has seen thousands of giant fans - and millions of solar panels - rolled out across Deutschland: one of their number, Max Planck concluding that … Continue reading Wind Power: Germany’s Road to Economic & Social Disaster
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