*** South Australia is an economic basket case, thanks, in no small part, to its obsession with wind power. Power prices are spiralling out of control. Back in March SA’s businesses were belted with a 90% hike in their bills, that left manufacturers, miners and other power hungry businesses reeling: Wind Power Costs Crushing South … Continue reading South Australians Locked in Wind Power Price Disaster: Retail Prices Jump Another 12%
Category: power prices
Wind Industry Makes Absurd Claim that Wind Power Lowers Retail Power Prices
The latest wind industry wheeze is to turn black into white, by claiming that occasionally adding wind power to an electricity grid (weather permitting, of course) lowers retail power prices. Here’s Alan Moran unpacking the latest furphy. Black is white: and wind generators drive down electricity prices, too … Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 8 June … Continue reading Wind Industry Makes Absurd Claim that Wind Power Lowers Retail Power Prices
UK’s Wind Power Nightmare Hits High Farce: Having Wrecked Everything, Wind Industry Now Says ‘Britain Not Windy Enough’
Wind is an occasional ally in all sorts of recreational pursuits: sailing, kite surfing, puffing on a ready-to-burst dandelion and watching their parasol seeds drift skywards, and the childish delight of sending kites aloft. But it's taken a special breed of Muppet to turn a source of sporadic fun into a ridiculously expensive, sometime source … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Nightmare Hits High Farce: Having Wrecked Everything, Wind Industry Now Says ‘Britain Not Windy Enough’
US Wind Industry ‘Built’ on $176 Billion of Other Peoples’ Money
If recycling is an environmental 'good', then the wind industry can proudly wear its ability to recycle hundreds of $Billions of other peoples' money as a badge of honour. Take a product which - as it can only ever be delivered at crazy random intervals and can't be economically stored - has NO commercial value … Continue reading US Wind Industry ‘Built’ on $176 Billion of Other Peoples’ Money
Lessons from the UK & SA – How to Destroy Power Supplies & Economies: Start with Subsidised Wind Power
Pinning its hopes to a wholly weather dependent power source – that requires 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional generation sources – Britain’s energy ‘policy’ was never going to end well. Already faced with an unstable grid and rocketing power prices thanks to its gamble on wind … Continue reading Lessons from the UK & SA – How to Destroy Power Supplies & Economies: Start with Subsidised Wind Power
Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Wind Power Fantasy Doubles Power Prices
**** Ontario was, once upon a time, an agricultural and manufacturing power house. Alas, the former pursuit has been smashed by plummeting property values and sonic torture, making thousands of farm homes uninhabitable; the latter endeavour has been demolished by power costs that have risen 108% due to the fantasy of trying to rely on … Continue reading Kathleen Wynne’s Ontario Wind Power Fantasy Doubles Power Prices
South Australia: Proving Wind Power a Recipe for Social & Economic Disaster
The image above is taken from the Collins Picture Dictionary under the definition of 'chaos': complete confusion and disorder : a state in which behavior and events are not controlled by anything. To be fair, South Australia's power supply is 'controlled' ...... 'controlled' by the vagaries of the weather, that is. Renewables alone a recipe … Continue reading South Australia: Proving Wind Power a Recipe for Social & Economic Disaster
Out to Curb Rocketing Power Prices Denmark Slashes Subsidies for Offshore Wind Power
**** In what could pass for another episode of Danish Crime Thriller, 'Follow the Money', the Danish government has pulled the plug on 5 offshore wind farms; a move that will, no doubt, have the boys from Energreen & Co scribbling out hurried suicide notes. With power prices escalating out of control, Europe's wind power … Continue reading Out to Curb Rocketing Power Prices Denmark Slashes Subsidies for Offshore Wind Power
Robert Bryce: the Insane Cost of Renewable Pipe Dreams – a Banquet of Consequences
Robert Bryce gets it. In the video above and the article below, Robert details the insane cost of attempting to power economies with sunshine and breezes; and does what policy makers have failed or refused to do: he connects the bitter consequences, born by the many, with the follies of the feckless few. Issues 2016: … Continue reading Robert Bryce: the Insane Cost of Renewable Pipe Dreams – a Banquet of Consequences
Europe Squanders $1.2 Trillion on Wind/Solar Subsidies & Still CO2 Emissions Soar
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 pieces, the delicious term 'irony' springs … Continue reading Europe Squanders $1.2 Trillion on Wind/Solar Subsidies & Still CO2 Emissions Soar
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