Category: Germany

Call to empty European renewable subsidy trough

Energy CEOs call for end to renewable subsidies EurActiv.com with Reuters Published: 11 October 2013 The CEOs of 10 utilities companies, which together own half of Europe's electricity generating capacity, are calling for an end to subsidies for wind and solar energy, which they say add too much power to a market already struggling with … Continue reading Call to empty European renewable subsidy trough

Gone With the Wind

**** Gone with the wind farm Australian Financial Review Paul Comrie-Thomson 4 October 2013 One thousand new wind turbines a week or 52,000 a year would be needed just to keep pace with India and China’s coal burn. So, where to now in the climate debate? Dieter Helm, CBE, is eminently qualified to write about … Continue reading Gone With the Wind

Up in Smoke

So much for wind power "saving the planet" - fossil fuel suppliers are watching their diesel sales soar as it becomes the fuel of choice for the back-up generation needed when wind-watts go missing - an inconvenient fact covered in Bobby thumbed a “Diesel” down …. You could say green dreams are going "Up in Smoke". … Continue reading Up in Smoke

Europeans get ready to can wind power for good

The wind industry is on its last legs. Vestas have poured millions into the Australian Greens and its “let’s-invent-the facts” campaign in an effort to knock off South Australian Senator Nick Xenophon.  Although STT thinks it might have been better advised to keep its Danish Krone at home - to help stay afloat and to … Continue reading Europeans get ready to can wind power for good

Punters – who kills the wind power fraud first: the UK, Germany or Australia?

STT will be talking shortly to Australian online betting guru – young Tommy Waterhouse – about starting a book with odds on which Country will drive the final stake into the great wind power fraud first. STT tips the trifecta line-up as being Australia, Germany and the UK.  But we can’t work out who is … Continue reading Punters – who kills the wind power fraud first: the UK, Germany or Australia?