Australia’s renewable energy target has subsidised wind and solar to the tune of more than $60 billion, wrecked its grid and driven power prices through the roof. Its manufacturing industry is in tatters (tens of thousands of jobs have disappeared forever); energy-intensive mineral processors, such as aluminium, copper lead and zinc smelters are on life … Continue reading Endless Subsidies For Unreliable Wind & Solar are an Economic Suicide Pact
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California’s Renewable Energy Meltdown: Power Prices Rocket Amidst Rolling Blackouts
Want unaffordable and unreliable power? Then wind and solar are just the ticket. With their grid on the very brink of collapse, Californians are suffering from rocketing power prices - all thanks to a ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes. Even when the sun is shining, the wind is blowing and power is … Continue reading California’s Renewable Energy Meltdown: Power Prices Rocket Amidst Rolling Blackouts
Enough is Enough: Time to End (Endless) Gravy Train for Subsidised Wind & Solar
Countless $billions are being squandered on subsidies to unreliable wind and solar, every single day. Wind and solar power don’t run on sunshine and breezes, they run on a seemingly endless stream of subsidies - without which, we simply wouldn’t be having this discussion. The merest hint threat of a cut to the subsidies sends … Continue reading Enough is Enough: Time to End (Endless) Gravy Train for Subsidised Wind & Solar
Reality Bites: Americans Finally Waking Up to the Nightmare Cost of Unreliable Wind and Solar
The wind and sun may be free, but wind and solar power are anything but. Hidden ‘green’ taxes, costs and charges, not to mention massive subsidies redirected from both taxpayers and power consumers to wind and solar generators are just the beginning. The market distortions created by those subsidies have wrecked the ability of conventional … Continue reading Reality Bites: Americans Finally Waking Up to the Nightmare Cost of Unreliable Wind and Solar
Subsidy Bonanza: Wind Industry Demands Even More Subsidies for Pointless Transmission Lines
Wind power will never truly compete with reliable generators, hence the endless subsidies. Now, the wind industry wants even more subsidies to pay for the transmission lines that would allow it to send its chaotic wares halfway across Australia. The claim is that another so-called ‘interconnector’ will help South Australian wind power outfits to deliver … Continue reading Subsidy Bonanza: Wind Industry Demands Even More Subsidies for Pointless Transmission Lines
Avoidable Self Harm: Dogged Reliance On Intermittent Wind & Solar Guarantees Power Supply Chaos
Sign up for wind and solar and receive power supply chaos as just one of the added extras, along with rocketing power prices and a wave of social and environmental havoc. Australia has been on the path since 2001 when Federal Liberal PM, John Howard introduced his Renewable Energy Target. The Target was greatly expanded … Continue reading Avoidable Self Harm: Dogged Reliance On Intermittent Wind & Solar Guarantees Power Supply Chaos
Joe Biden’s Offshore Wind Energy Mirage: Or ‘How To Squander $Trillions of Taxpayers’ Money’
For an example of how unhinged the Democrat’s energy policy is, then Biden’s offshore wind energy plan takes the cake. The fact that offshore wind power has already proven to be a phenomenally expensive way of generating electricity clearly hasn’t registered. Nor has the fact that it’s no more reliable than wind power generated onshore, … Continue reading Joe Biden’s Offshore Wind Energy Mirage: Or ‘How To Squander $Trillions of Taxpayers’ Money’
Emergency Response: Wind & Solar Debacle Forces Government to Build Gas-Fired Power Plants
Australia’s self-inflicted renewable energy calamity was as perfectly predictable, as it was perfectly avoidable. The cancer started in wind and solar obsessed South Australia; renowned for Australia’s highest retail power prices and its most unreliable power delivery. But the disease soon spread, which is not surprising given that it all started with the Federal government’s … Continue reading Emergency Response: Wind & Solar Debacle Forces Government to Build Gas-Fired Power Plants
Massive Subsidies For Wind & Solar ‘Industries’: The Never, Never, Never-Ending Story
Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D”. That was over 37 years ago. And there was no lack of assistance in the form … Continue reading Massive Subsidies For Wind & Solar ‘Industries’: The Never, Never, Never-Ending Story
Wanna Wreck Your Economy? Just Add Unreliable Subsidised Wind & Solar
Australia’s energy system is a diabolical mess, largely thanks to the Federal Government’s Renewable Energy Target. But the Feds can’t take all the blame, in all instances. A number of States - usually headed by Trotskyites, like Chairman Dan Andrews - are determined to destroy the last vestiges of their economies. What the Fed’s … Continue reading Wanna Wreck Your Economy? Just Add Unreliable Subsidised Wind & Solar
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