**** The RET Review Panel’s interim report is expected within the next few weeks and we hear there is no joy in it for the wind industry and its parasites. The big end of town have made some walloping submissions - all targeting the mandatory RET as the costly and ineffective market distortion that it … Continue reading Queensland says: Time to Scrap the Renewable Energy Target
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Robert Bryce’s new book slays the wind power Easter Bunny
**** Robert Bryce picked the wind power fraud for what it is from the very beginning. In his 2010 book “Power Hungry: The Myths of “Green” Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future” (Public Affairs), Bryce skewered every one of the myths relied upon by the wind industry to peddle its wares; and went … Continue reading Robert Bryce’s new book slays the wind power Easter Bunny
South Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
**** South Australia is held up by the wind industry and its parasites as an Australian wind power "Supermodel" - as in this tissue of lies pitched up by Thai turbine-terrorists, RATCH: MEWF Newsletter May 2014. RATCH's goons have always had a "troubled" relationship with truth and reality, so you would be excused for setting … Continue reading South Australian Wind Power “FAILS”
Claims Wind Power now “Competitive” with Conventional Generators About to be Tested
**** In Australia and the US, the wind industry and its parasites are making wild claims about being able to deliver power at prices equal to, or less than, the cost of conventional generation sources (see our post here). Those claims are about to be put to the test. In both Countries, legislators are ready … Continue reading Claims Wind Power now “Competitive” with Conventional Generators About to be Tested
German Energy Giant E.On says: It’s Time for Wind Power to Grow Up
The wind industry is a lot like Peter Pan – the eternal child, who will fight, kick and scream to avoid the stark reality of adulthood. How often have we heard the yarn about wind power needing a fat pile of subsidies (filched from taxpayers and power consumers) for just that little bit longer to … Continue reading German Energy Giant E.On says: It’s Time for Wind Power to Grow Up
Wind Farms & “Community Division”: Tales from Rye Park (NSW) & Northumberland (UK)
*** Naked greed, institutional corruption and State-sanctioned corporate bullying and thuggery are part and parcel of the wind industry, wherever you go. We recount below a tale from Northumberland that could have been written anywhere that giant fans have been slung up in the world. In tales like these the phrase “community division” often appears. … Continue reading Wind Farms & “Community Division”: Tales from Rye Park (NSW) & Northumberland (UK)
Spain’s Renewable Energy Disaster Draws to a Close
**** Spain has been held up by the gullible and naïve (some might say, cynical and malign) hard-green-left as the model for our “new” energy future. Some “model”!! The Spaniards have thrown 100s of billions of euros in subsidies at solar and wind power, and have achieved nothing but economic punishment in return. The power … Continue reading Spain’s Renewable Energy Disaster Draws to a Close
Wind Turbines: “Don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies”
Ontario is about to boil over, as impacted and threatened communities unite in seething rage at what their political betters have done to energy policy (see our post here). The hard-green-left Liberals have created a wind power policy so insane as to beggar belief: sending power prices through the roof (referred to as “hydro bills”, … Continue reading Wind Turbines: “Don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies”
Power Punters Face $billions in “Fines” as Mandatory RET Deemed “Doomed to Fail”
**** In our earlier posts (here and here) we outlined the fact that – under the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - retailers are fined $65 per MWh for every MW they fall below the mandated 41,000 GWh annual target: what’s called the “shortfall charge” - follow the links here and here. With less than 23,000 … Continue reading Power Punters Face $billions in “Fines” as Mandatory RET Deemed “Doomed to Fail”
Big Wind’s Totally Bogus Subsidy Adventure
If time-travelling teens from the future (a world where wind farms had long since been cut up for scrap) lobbed into 2014, they’d be “totally bummed out” at what must have happened to our collective intelligence to end up with giant fans at centre-stage of today’s “modern” energy policy. They’d think the idea of trying … Continue reading Big Wind’s Totally Bogus Subsidy Adventure