In the USA, wholesale carnage across the entire wind industry apace. While Donald J Trump can take his fair share of the credit, rocketing costs and anxious investors are doing their bit to bring the great wind power fraud to its knees. Which brings us to this week’s roundup, with Irina Slav reporting on yet … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 26 October 2025
Tag: Britain power costs
Deep ‘Green’ Punishment: Power Prices Set To Double In Wind Power Obsessed Britain
Thanks to the UK's love affair with intermittent wind power, Brit’s power bills will double this April when a legislated price cap is lifted; UK power prices are already amongst the highest in Europe. And there is much worse to come. Instead of coming to grips with its self-inflicted renewable energy calamity, its energy brains … Continue reading Deep ‘Green’ Punishment: Power Prices Set To Double In Wind Power Obsessed Britain
Renewable Energy Obsession Means Brits Pay £10.8 Billion in Wind & Solar Subsidies Every Year
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 … Continue reading Renewable Energy Obsession Means Brits Pay £10.8 Billion in Wind & Solar Subsidies Every Year
Pricing Vanity: Power Consumers Punished By Obscene Cost of Wind Farm Subsidies
The virtue signalling wind power advocate reckons that the wind is free, but the pointless Vanity Project that is industrial wind power comes with a staggering pricetag. And it’s the power consumer that’s always left to pick up the tab. While the increasingly whopping number staring out from a power bill can hardly be concealed, … Continue reading Pricing Vanity: Power Consumers Punished By Obscene Cost of Wind Farm Subsidies
Boris Goes Bonkers: UK Set to Squander A Further £50,000,000,000 On Failed Wind Power Experiment
If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, then Boris Johnson is clearly barking mad. The UK PM’s latest cunning plan is to squander a further £50,000,000,000 on government guaranteed fixed price contracts - paying way above market rates - subsidies and taxpayer support for chaotically intermittent wind … Continue reading Boris Goes Bonkers: UK Set to Squander A Further £50,000,000,000 On Failed Wind Power Experiment
Want The World’s Most Expensive & Unreliable Electricity? Try Offshore Wind Power
Want to pay a fortune for power delivered in chaotic fits and spurts? Why not try offshore wind power? The true cost of chaotically intermittent wind power is staggering; the cost of offshore wind power is astronomical. The capital cost of spearing these things offshore is multiples greater than doing so in some dimwitted farmer’s … Continue reading Want The World’s Most Expensive & Unreliable Electricity? Try Offshore Wind Power
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