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Renewable Energy Armageddon: Australia’s Self-Inflicted Power Pricing & Supply Calamity

September 15, 2019 by stopthesethings 4 Comments

Chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar are at the heart of Australia’s power pricing and supply calamity. Like a runaway train, the disaster is unfolding before the passengers’ very eyes, with state and federal politicians apparently incapable of bringing the disaster to a halt and ever-present rent seekers throwing the throttle wide open. […]

Filed Under: Angus Taylor energy minister, Australia's renewable energy target, Big wind industry, Big wind politics, ending renewable energy subsidies, power prices, South Australia blackouts, Victoria blackouts Tagged With: 50% renewable target, Australia's energy crisis, Cost of subsidised renewables, German energy crisis, highest power prices in the world, intermittent wind power, Rising power prices, South Australia's energy crisis, South Australian power prices, Victorian power prices, Why are power prices so high

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Let’s Not Make A New ‘Green’ Deal

September 7, 2019 by stopthesethings 8 Comments

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the Green-left’s favourite flibbertigibbet. Her New Green Deal, with its promise of 100% wind and solar delivering power for all, for free and for all time, should have been dismissed as fairytale nonsense, long ago. However, there are plenty of pixie dream girls and boys happy to suck it up, like there’s […]

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On The Level: Why Unreliable Wind & Solar Increase Power Prices

September 3, 2019 by stopthesethings 2 Comments

The relationship between rocketing power prices and chaotically intermittent wind and solar is crystal clear. Let’s call it Germany, Denmark and South Australia, where wind and solar obsessions have driven power prices into orbit. While RE zealots continue to chant the mantra that wind and solar are practically free, and getting cheaper all the time, […]

Filed Under: Big wind industry, Big wind politics, power prices, USA Tagged With: 100% renewable energy, 50% renewable target, Australia's energy crisis, Coal compared with wind power, cost of wind power compared with gas, Levelised cost of solar power, Levelised cost of wind power, Tom Stacy and George Taylor, US power prices, Why are power prices rising, Why are power prices so high, Wind power cost compared nuclear

Rigged & Rotten: How Power Market Rules Were Bent to Benefit Intermittent Wind & Solar

August 30, 2019 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

Electricity that is not available as and when consumers need it has no natural commercial value. An ICU patient on life support isn’t interested in whether the weather is going to keep her alive. For that reason, chaotically delivered wind and solar just don’t add up. The only thing that adds up are massive (and […]

Filed Under: Big wind industry, Big wind politics, nuclear power, power prices, USA Tagged With: 100% renewable energy, 50% renewable target, American wind power subsidies, Cost of subsidised renewables, Cost of subsidised solar, Cost of subsidised wind power, How subsidies to wind power work, Power market, power market rorting, Wind Production Tax Credits

With Wind & Solar’s Days Over, Who Cleans Up Europe’s Renewable Energy Mess?

August 20, 2019 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

Across Europe, investment in new wind and solar is in freefall. So far this year, the Germans installed a measly 35 of these things onshore. As their massive subsidies get cut and furious rural residents revolt, the wind and solar industries are facing their inevitable Armageddon. The inevitable surge in power prices and grid chaos […]

Filed Under: Europe Tagged With: 100% renewable energy, 50% renewable target, Collapse in renewable energy investment, cutting subsidies for wind power, Cutting subsidies to renewables, European power costs, European renewable energy investment, european subsidies wind power, German power prices, Germany's renewable energy investment, power prices manufacturing, Renewable energy capacity

Lights Out: Millions of Brits Come to Grips With Wind ‘Powered’ Future – In the Dark!!

August 18, 2019 by stopthesethings 6 Comments

Pinning your power needs on the weather? Then expect mixed results. South Australians living in Australia’s wind power blackout capital, know the drill, well-enough. And now their cousins in the UK have had a taste of what it is to be suddenly living in the Dark Ages, after a sudden output collapse at an […]

Filed Under: Big wind industry, Big wind politics, UK Tagged With: 100% renewable energy, 50% renewable target, Blackout risk wind power, Blackouts in Britain, Britain blackouts, Grid reliability intermittent renewables, Power blackout risk, Renewables blackouts, UK blackouts, UK wind power blackout, unreliable wind power, wind power blackouts, wind power grid instability

Blackout Nation: Wind Power Output Collapse Leaves Millions of Brits Totally Powerless

August 17, 2019 by stopthesethings 4 Comments

Proving pride comes before a fall, UK’s wind industry was crowing about delivering 47% Britain’s power one-minute and ducking for cover the next, after the collapse of output at an offshore wind farm delivered 100% chaos for businesses, households, hospital patients and commuters. With its obsession for chaotic wind power running unabated, Brits can expect […]

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