**** What impresses STT most is the tenacity and perseverance of community defenders, all over the Globe. Pro-farming (REAL farming, that is), pro-community and pro-real power groups are better informed and organised, and more vocal and hostile, than ever before. Hard-working, decent, rural people throughout the world are fighting back – to obtain sensible energy … Continue reading If You’re Going through Wind Farm Hell, Then Keep Going
Category: UK
How Massively Subsidised Wind Power Destroys Power Markets & Economies
Wind and solar have destroyed the ability of the market to signal price The Telegraph Rupert Darwall 7 March 2016 Before the election, high electricity prices made the Big Six energy companies everyone’s favourite whipping boys. A report by the competition watchdog exonerated them. Government-driven social, environmental and network costs were the main drivers of … Continue reading How Massively Subsidised Wind Power Destroys Power Markets & Economies
Britain’s Wind Power Debacle: Wind Power Outfits Paid £200 Million a Year for Producing NO Power at All
**** Pinning its hopes to a wholly weather dependent power source - that requires 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional generation sources - Britain's energy 'policy' was never going to end well. Already faced with an unstable grid and rocketing power prices thanks to its gamble on … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power Debacle: Wind Power Outfits Paid £200 Million a Year for Producing NO Power at All
Britain’s Wind Power ‘Leap of Faith’
The dimwits from DECCs, that coupled Britain's energy future to wind power, are calling on Britons to trust them in an almighty 'Leap of Faith'. With aging, beyond their use by date, coal-fired power plants being closed this year, British power punters are being promised, by the very idiots that created the mess, that everything … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power ‘Leap of Faith’
Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer
How to squander ₤4 billion of other peoples’ money. **** If policy is driven by petulant, infantile ideology, instead of cool-headed economics, the result is, without exception, an unmitigated disaster. Here's a nice little wrap-up based on the latter policy approach, that unpicks the falsehoods of the former. (Guaranteed) power to the people Scientific … Continue reading Why Squander $Billions on Wind Power? If CO2 is the Threat, Nukes is the Answer
Doomed & Desperate: UK Wind Industry Attempts to Engineer Backdoor Subsidies
David Cameron's Conservatives strode to outright power on the back of a 'crystal clear' manifesto to cut subsidies to wind power and to give locals the right to veto wind farm projects at the planning stage. But, in a 'never-say-die' last ditch attempt to obtain 'backdoor' access to the perpetual subsidies that are the only … Continue reading Doomed & Desperate: UK Wind Industry Attempts to Engineer Backdoor Subsidies
UK’s Wind Power Gamble Ends in Power Supply Bankruptcy
Until David Cameron's Conservatives took full control of the UK Parliament, Britain had lumped every last chip on wind power: apparently hoping that a wholly weather dependent power source, that requires 100% of its capacity to be backed up 100% of the time by conventional (dispatchable) power sources, would come up trumps and lead to … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Gamble Ends in Power Supply Bankruptcy
How the Wind Industry Rigged Noise ‘Rules’ to Destroy Neighbours’ Lives
**** In our timeline post – Three Decades of Wind Industry Deception: A Chronology of a Global Conspiracy of Silence and Subterfuge – we covered the fact that – from 1995 – the wind industry drew together a hand-picked team with a mission to write noise rules with absolutely no relevance to wind turbine noise; … Continue reading How the Wind Industry Rigged Noise ‘Rules’ to Destroy Neighbours’ Lives
Britain’s Wind Power ‘Policy’: Betting on a Miracle
**** Britain’s energy policy: Betting on a miracle CAPX Rupert Darwall 1 December 2015 Ugly reality has broken into British energy policy. Last week’s speech by the climate and energy secretary Amber Rudd is a milestone that defines the end of the fantasy stage of the renewables fairy tale. Policy makers must now grapple with … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power ‘Policy’: Betting on a Miracle
UK Wind Farms Get to Pocket £Millions Without Producing a Single Spark
**** Britain’s wind power disaster is a debacle, to be sure. However, paying wind power outfits for electricity that’s never produced is nothing short of criminal. This Daily Express piece, which uncovers the scandal in Scotland, is a little confused on its facts, but we’ll sort that out below. Wind farms get £5million handout because … Continue reading UK Wind Farms Get to Pocket £Millions Without Producing a Single Spark
