As STT’s loyal followers know, Australia is all set to decouple itself from the international economic suicide pact entered when gullible and unwitting governments all over the world signed up to ludicrously expensive and utterly pointless renewables policies. The Coalition are itching to scrap the Renewable Energy Target - and the RET Review Panel appear … Continue reading Time to let the RET Review Panel Know What You Think
Category: power prices
Wind Power in Britain: it’s Robin Hood in Reverse
A while back, there was a plucky young English lad, called Robin Hood, who was pretty handy with both long-bow and sword; and so comfortable with expressing his “feminine side” that he wasn’t afraid to be seen in figure hugging green tights. Hood hung out with his band of Merry Men in Sherwood Forest, dodging … Continue reading Wind Power in Britain: it’s Robin Hood in Reverse
Joe Hockey keen to scrap Infigen’s “utterly offensive” Lake George Wind Farm
**** In our last post we covered the Alan Jone’s interview with Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey that’s sent the wind industry and its parasites into a tailspin. Apart from the fact that Joe detests the very sight of these things, the Treasurer made it abundantly clear that when the Coalition talks about ending the “age … Continue reading Joe Hockey keen to scrap Infigen’s “utterly offensive” Lake George Wind Farm
Martians in charge of UK Energy Policy
With spiralling power costs crippling business and punishing families due to its ludicrous renewables policy, the Brits might fairly ask: “have our leaders been taken over by Martians?” Well, frankly, yes. The Tories have abdicated their responsibility for energy policy to the hard-green-left of the Liberal-Democrats - who can’t transfer £billions in taxpayer and power consumer … Continue reading Martians in charge of UK Energy Policy
Bjørn Lomborg: Cost of Renewables Hit Poorest the Hardest
Bjørn Lomborg has become one of the most high profile critics of insanely expensive and utterly pointless renewable energy policies across the globe (see our posts here and here). Bjørn's back - and this time he adds the impact that our ludicrous Renewable Energy Target has had - and will have - on power prices and … Continue reading Bjørn Lomborg: Cost of Renewables Hit Poorest the Hardest
Perverse Renewables Policy turns Wind Power into Super-Predator
**** On the rare occasions when wind power is able to deliver meaningful output to the grid – usually at night-time - generators are more than happy for the dispatch price (the price paid by the grid operator to generators) to hit zero - and have even paid the grid operator to take their output, … Continue reading Perverse Renewables Policy turns Wind Power into Super-Predator
Alan Moran: Scrap the RET and let Australian business compete again
**** Stop renewable subsidies to allow lower electricity prices and competitive industry Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 24 April 2014 The RET Review brought the usual howls of anguish from the rent seekers concerned that regulatory measures will cease and that they will need to sell their wind and solar products on the open market. That … Continue reading Alan Moran: Scrap the RET and let Australian business compete again
Dave Cameron sends wind power offshore and consigns Brits to economic dustbin
**** David Cameron’s so-called "Conservatives" have seemingly ditched plans to roll out thousands of giant fans across the hills and dales of Old Blighty. Faced with a brewing voter backlash from their own rural constituents about the negative impacts Britain’s great wind rush has had upon the landscape, property values and the ability of neighbours … Continue reading Dave Cameron sends wind power offshore and consigns Brits to economic dustbin
Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster
STT has focused on the debacle that is German renewable policy this week, taking a close look at its disastrous renewables policy - the product of an economic suicide pact endorsed by Germany's "Grand Coalition" tagged "GroKo". The GroKo - which cops a belting in this skit from a popular TV news/comedy show - is … Continue reading Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster
UK’s Wind Rush Leaves Grid Vulnerable to Collapse & Power Punters Foot the Bill
Like the Germans, the Brits are now reaping the whirlwind of their insane renewable energy policy. Not only have power prices skyrocketed, the perverse economics of that policy has left the UK grid vulnerable to complete collapse. Britain’s energy needs have been so mismanaged - and the incentives filched from taxpayers and power consumers and … Continue reading UK’s Wind Rush Leaves Grid Vulnerable to Collapse & Power Punters Foot the Bill