**** South Australia - Australia’s ‘Wind Power Capital’ - is like the cooking show moment where - through the magic of clever editing - a perfect soufflé is slid in front of the camera and the grinning, self-satisfied cook announces ‘here’s one I prepared earlier’. Except that, in SA’s case, what’s been plated up is … Continue reading South Australia’s Economy the Victim of a Wind Power ‘Suicide Pact’
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‘Saving’ South Australia from its Self-Inflicted Wind Power Disaster Needs $1 Billion Right NOW!
**** Wind and solar create headaches for energy market operator Australian Financial Review Mark Ludlow 19 February 2016 State governments may have to spend billions of dollars to duplicate the electricity network to cope with the unreliability of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar, according to the national energy forecaster. As the Australian … Continue reading ‘Saving’ South Australia from its Self-Inflicted Wind Power Disaster Needs $1 Billion Right NOW!
South Australia’s Wind Farm Fiasco Heralds a Nuclear Powered Future
**** Earlier in the week, we detailed how South Australia’s wind farm fiasco has left its taxpayers on the hook for tens of $millions in subsidies, to be directed to the French owner of a mothballed Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power plant at Pelican Point, on the Lefevre Peninsula north-west of Adelaide. Not that its … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Farm Fiasco Heralds a Nuclear Powered Future
SA’s Wind Farm Fiasco: $Millions in Subsidies Thrown at GDF Suez to Reopen Mothballed Gas-Fired Power Plant
South Australia has the dubious honour of being referred to as “Australia’s wind farm capital”. That ‘accolade’ has brought with it rocketing power prices, an unstable grid and routine blackouts. As to the latter, South Australians are learning to live with daily ‘load-shedding’, that even its premier academic institutions have to suffer, along with thousands … Continue reading SA’s Wind Farm Fiasco: $Millions in Subsidies Thrown at GDF Suez to Reopen Mothballed Gas-Fired Power Plant
Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts
**** In Australia's wind farm capital, South Australia the terms ‘chaos’ and ‘crisis’ are used to describe the aftermath of an energy policy ‘designed’ on desktops by dimwits, who haven’t got the faintest clue about how power generation works (or much else, for that matter). Wind power collapses and blackouts are now part of South … Continue reading Wind Power Disaster: South Australians Grapple with Rocketing Power Prices, an Unstable Grid & Rolling Blackouts
Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes
**** Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels Project Syndicate Bjørn Lomborg 22 January 2016 SANTIAGO – Africa is the world’s most “renewable” continent when it comes to energy. In the rich world, renewables account for less than a tenth of total energy supplies. The 900 million people of Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) get 80% of their … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes
The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power
Reaping the carbon policy harvest Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 18 January 2016 For five years, Tata, the Indian firm that owns what used to be British Steel has been warning that energy costs in Britain are squeezing competitiveness. Previous reductions have accelerated in 2015 with a 15 per cent cut in jobs. Successive UK governments … Continue reading The Economy Crushing Consequences of Massively Subsidised Wind Power
Australian Power Retailers Deliver Fatal Blow to Wind Industry with Mass Solar Roll-Out
**** STT has been pointing out for sometime now, the fact that Australia’s big 3 power retailers have been refusing to ‘play ball’ with beleaguered wind power cowboys, like near-bankrupt, Infigen and the union super fund backed disaster, Pacific Hydro. Commercial retailers have not entered any power purchase agreements with wind power outfits, since about … Continue reading Australian Power Retailers Deliver Fatal Blow to Wind Industry with Mass Solar Roll-Out
US Study Shows Wind Power Push to Kill 1.2 Million Real Jobs
Most, gifted with the slightest grip on the basics of economics, pick up on the fact that producers of widgets (and the like) are driven by the prospect of profits (a motive lost on Labor/Green apparatchiks), which, in turn depend upon input costs. For widget makers, butchers, bakers and the like, drive up input costs … Continue reading US Study Shows Wind Power Push to Kill 1.2 Million Real Jobs
SA Wind Farms Trigger South Australian Power Crisis
**** In one sad and sorry respect, South Australia resembles Germany: both went into wind power with a vengeance; and the householders and businesses of both are watching their economic prosperity wither under the combined effect of crippling (and escalating) power prices and increasingly unreliable power supplies: Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves … Continue reading SA Wind Farms Trigger South Australian Power Crisis
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