Britain cost of wind power subsidies – STOP THESE THINGS

Never Enough: Wind Industry Squanders Billions & Demands Even More Subsidies From Taxpayers

March 14, 2023 by stopthesethings 5 Comments

After 30 years and plenty of talk about being ‘competitive’ with coal, gas and nuclear, wind and solar are still being treated like untamable toddlers. The subsidies they begged for in the beginning were meant to help so-called ‘infant’ industries get on their feet. But, even now, the mere mention of reducing subsidies turns them […]

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Wind & Solar: Always & Everywhere Dependent On Massive & Endless Subsidies

March 11, 2023 by stopthesethings 3 Comments

Never stand between rent seekers and a fat pile of taxpayers’ money. The wind and solar industries were built on lies and myth, but they can only survive when there’s a steady stream of massive and endless subsidies. Cut the subsidies and rent seekers disappear in a heartbeat. BP was once the head of the […]

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Britain’s Wind Industry Set to Receive Even More Taxpayer’s Money For Producing Nothing At All

February 26, 2023 by stopthesethings 4 Comments

So-called wind power ‘constraint payments’ are more like a kidnapper’s ransom, than a genuine commercial transaction. There aren’t many exchanges that involve a producer claiming a fee for producing absolutely nothing, at all. But when your product is only available in random, chaotic spurts (or not at all), apparently the rules change. Up to December […]

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UK’s Power Consumers Pay Staggering Price For Wind Power That’s Never Delivered

December 6, 2022 by stopthesethings 3 Comments

Obscene is one way to describe the wind power debacle playing out in Britain; power prices are punitive, in calm weather power rationing is normal. And with a bitter winter looming, the worst is yet to come. That untold £billions have already been squandered on subsidies directed to chaotically intermittent wind and solar is bad […]

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Subsidised Suicide: Wind & Solar Power Chaos Driving Britain’s Rocketing Power Prices

November 30, 2022 by stopthesethings 1 Comment

Britain’s power consumers are paying a heavy price for its maniacal obsession with intermittent wind and solar. Trashing its coal-fired power fleet and failing to keep up its nuclear plants now looks positively suicidal. However, of late, the MSM has been dishing up an alternative reality, peddling a line that power prices would be a […]

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The Great Wind Power Swindle: Households & Businesses Being Crushed By Record Power Bills

September 19, 2022 by stopthesethings 5 Comments

If wind power is cheap, why does every country obsessed with it suffer rocketing power prices? The game of smoke and mirrors played by renewable energy rent-seekers, has enabled them to avoid any critical scrutiny of the role heavily subsidised and chaotically intermittent wind and solar play in driving power prices into orbit. A decade of […]

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Renewable Energy Obsession Means Brits Pay £10.8 Billion in Wind & Solar Subsidies Every Year

June 1, 2021 by stopthesethings 4 Comments

Unreliable, inefficient and insanely costly, there’s plenty to dislike about subsidised wind and solar. British power prices have rocketed; ‘reliability’ is now just a catchphrase; energy poverty is the new normal; and its PM, Boris Johnson apparently couldn’t care less. Indeed, he seems even more fixated on unreliable and unaffordable power, than his predecessors. Dr […]

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