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
Category: Europe
‘Green’ Energy Chaos: Wind & Solar Power Puts Europe at Total Blackout Risk
*** South Australia’s obsession with wind power has brought with it a grab bag of calamitous results - including retail power prices more than double the cheapest state in Australia, Victoria and its globally ‘acclaimed’ habit of “Australia’s wind power capital”: routine load shedding and statewide blackouts. The most notorious of which occurred on 28 … Continue reading ‘Green’ Energy Chaos: Wind & Solar Power Puts Europe at Total Blackout Risk
Germany’s Wind Powered Transition: a Policy in Chaos
It’s not easy being green: Even with new reforms, doubts remain about Germany’s energy transition The Economist 13 August 2016 Brandenburg used to be called the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire for its poor soil and marginal geography. Today a more appropriate moniker might be “the wind farm of the European Union” for all … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Powered Transition: a Policy in Chaos
Wind Power Alert: Americans Out to Avoid Europe’s Power Price Disaster
America has some perfect examples of what not to do, if it wants to remain an industrial and manufacturing power-house, with a standard of living that much of the World can only envy. South Australia has set the pace with spot prices that rocket in minutes from $70 per MWh to $2,000 to $4,000 and … Continue reading Wind Power Alert: Americans Out to Avoid Europe’s Power Price Disaster
Poland Bans Wind Power & Orders a Double Helping of Coal to Keep the Lights On
Over-run by these things, faced with thousand of furious neighbours demanding an end to the onslaught, and spiralling power costs, Poland has mounted an enormous about face: where wind power was the flavour of the month for a year or two, it’s been hit with an outright ban. Worse still for Polish wind-worshippers, their government, faced … Continue reading Poland Bans Wind Power & Orders a Double Helping of Coal to Keep the Lights On
WHO Investigates Health Effects of Wind Turbine Noise & Infrasound
Wind Warning to World Health Organization-Europe (turbine health effects in the crosshairs) Master Resource Sherri Lange 19 July 2016 “We are hopeful that your deliberations will result in tough new European guidelines which in turn will prompt a serious worldwide examination of all aspects of this problem, including the widely-reported effects on animals.” – Dr. … Continue reading WHO Investigates Health Effects of Wind Turbine Noise & Infrasound
Poles Apart: New Turbine Setback Rules Threaten Doom for Polish Wind Industry
Over-run by these things, faced with thousand of furious neighbours demanding an end to the onslaught, and spiralling power costs, Poland has mounted an enormous about face: where the wind industry was the flavour of the month for a year or two, it’s just been hit with the first salvo in an effort to give … Continue reading Poles Apart: New Turbine Setback Rules Threaten Doom for Polish Wind Industry
Lessons from Denmark: Danes Slash Wind Power Subsidies to Salvage Economy
The wind industry is mounted on myth and fuelled by fantasy. In Australia, its parasites and spruikers must believe that we are still cut off from the known world (suffering from what was referred to as the “tyranny of distance”) when they peddle stories about Europeans still being wedded to wind power. On that score, … Continue reading Lessons from Denmark: Danes Slash Wind Power Subsidies to Salvage Economy
Trillion Dollar Irony: Europe’s Wind Rush Sends CO2 Emissions Soaring
If “saving” the planet is – as we are repeatedly told – all about reducing man-made emissions of an odourless, colourless, naturally occurring trace gas, essential for all life on earth – then European energy/environmental policy has manifestly failed. And what an expensive failure it is. In the following piece, the delicious term ‘irony’ springs … Continue reading Trillion Dollar Irony: Europe’s Wind Rush Sends CO2 Emissions Soaring
Freefall: Wind Power Investment Collapses in Europe
In a 'what goes around comes around' kind of way, it's fitting that the great wind power fraud is taking European 'investors' - of the Energreen mold - to the cleaners. The subsidies have run out and, as night follows day, investors are racing to the exits - which brings the greatest Ponzi scheme of … Continue reading Freefall: Wind Power Investment Collapses in Europe