Cold Comfort: 20 Years Of Subsidies to Wind & Solar Leaves Germans Suffering World’s Highest Power Prices

No country has squandered more on subsidies to wind and solar than Germany; no country pays more for its power. Which is hardly a coincidence. The idea that millions of solar panels lying frozen under sheets of snow for months each year would provide some kind of benefit to power consumers beggars belief. So too, … Continue reading Cold Comfort: 20 Years Of Subsidies to Wind & Solar Leaves Germans Suffering World’s Highest Power Prices

Virus Victims: Government’s COVID-19 Response Spells Doom For Wind & Solar Subsidies

  The wind and solar ‘industries’ are in meltdown, as Governments throw $billions at the unemployed, workers and businesses in their responses to their COVID-19 shutdowns. It seems like only yesterday when renewable energy rent seekers were able to tap into an endless stream of taxpayer subsidies, government backed fixed-price contracts, soft loans, mandates and … Continue reading Virus Victims: Government’s COVID-19 Response Spells Doom For Wind & Solar Subsidies

Grand Theft: US Taxpayers Liable For $120,000,000,000 In Subsidies to Wind & Solar

In the absence of endless subsidies there would be no wind or solar industries. Period. The minute talk turns to cutting those subsidies, the rent-seekers profiting from the wind and solar scam scream ‘blue murder’. In the USA, the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time is on a scale and magnitude that would … Continue reading Grand Theft: US Taxpayers Liable For $120,000,000,000 In Subsidies to Wind & Solar

Corona Mania: US Wind & Solar Industries Demand $Billions In Subsidies From Virus Stimulus Package

The hysteria generated by COVID-19 is nothing compared to the panic that’s broken out among renewable energy rent-seekers in the USA. With the Federal government channelling $2 trillion into a coronavirus stimulus package, wind and solar outfits appear to be suffering a #metoo moment; they’ve missed out on the cash and they’re crying foul. The … Continue reading Corona Mania: US Wind & Solar Industries Demand $Billions In Subsidies From Virus Stimulus Package