Keen to pay ridiculous amounts for power in an act of pointless vanity? - get your town to go 100% wind & solar. Georgetown, Texas did and its 71,000 citizens are paying a heavy price. Despite the hype, the town isn’t being exclusively powered by sunshine and breezes; quietly and ever so hypocritically the town … Continue reading Totally ‘Gored’: Texan Town Pays Heavy Price for 100% Wind & Solar Vanity Project
Tag: Cost of renewable energy
Annual Cost of Australia’s Solar Subsidy Scam Hits $2 Billion & Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
The line that Australia’s rocketing power prices will soon plummet is just a cruel hoax. The subsidies for large-scale wind and solar under the Federal government’s Large-Scale RET will total more than $60 billion over the life of that scheme: the Renewable Energy Certificates issued under the LRET have already added more than $15 billion … Continue reading Annual Cost of Australia’s Solar Subsidy Scam Hits $2 Billion & Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
Germany’s Renewable Energy Disaster – Part 3: Wind & Solar Deemed ‘Economic Nonsense’
Germany’s wind and solar experiment has failed: the so-called ‘Energiewende’ (energy transition) has turned into an insanely costly debacle. German power prices have rocketed; blackouts and load shedding are the norm; and once bucolic farmland has been turned into industrial wastelands (see above). Hundreds of billions of euros have been squandered on subsidies to wind and solar, … Continue reading Germany’s Renewable Energy Disaster – Part 3: Wind & Solar Deemed ‘Economic Nonsense’
Australia’s Self-Inflicted Renewable Energy Crisis: 200,000 Families Can’t Afford Power
Relying on subsidised, intermittent and unreliable wind and solar results in rocketing power prices. Rocketing power prices results in a cycle of grinding, daily misery for the poorest and most vulnerable. More than 100,000 Australian families had their power cut off last year, and a further 100,000 are on payment plans with their power retailers … Continue reading Australia’s Self-Inflicted Renewable Energy Crisis: 200,000 Families Can’t Afford Power
Monash Forum: Rattles Renewables Rent Seekers with Threat to Endless Subsidies
In a little over 15 years, Australia has gone from an energy superpower to an international joke. Power prices are rocketing, and its Eastern Grid is on the brink of collapse. All for the sake of a pointless, ideological obsession with wind and solar power. Thankfully, a solid rump of 30 Liberal and National … Continue reading Monash Forum: Rattles Renewables Rent Seekers with Threat to Endless Subsidies
Wind Power Fantasy: 100% Renewable Claims a Mixture of Magic & Pixie Dust
The Magic Pudding’s ability to return to his original form – no matter how many times he was eaten – is the stuff of delicious fantasy. Those pretending that whole economies can run on sunshine and breezes operate under similar economic parameters: summoning up beneficial breezes, when and where needed; conjuring up mythical mega-batteries; and … Continue reading Wind Power Fantasy: 100% Renewable Claims a Mixture of Magic & Pixie Dust
Wind Power Propaganda Unplugged: How Media Helped Sell the Greatest Fraud of All Time
The first recruit in war is God and the first casualty is the truth. For 20 years, the wind industry has been slaughtering the truth across the globe in an unrelenting propaganda war. George Orwell, British novelist and keen political observer, understood the power of words and the power that comes from manipulating them. Orwell … Continue reading Wind Power Propaganda Unplugged: How Media Helped Sell the Greatest Fraud of All Time
Want to Wreck Your Nation? Plug Into Intermittent Wind & Solar – Australia Did
A week or so back, we picked up on a brilliant article in The Australian by Henry Ergas - Professor of Infrastructure Economics at the University of Wollongong’s SMART Infrastructure Facility - in which he likened Australia’s renewable energy policies to a death wish (our post here). Henry’s back, this time on 2GB detailing the … Continue reading Want to Wreck Your Nation? Plug Into Intermittent Wind & Solar – Australia Did
Renewables Disaster Sees Australian Power Prices Jump Another 20% – With Worse to Come
Life coaches and self-help manuals talk about dreaming the life and living the dream. In Australia, as elsewhere, wind and solar power were touted as promising not only an end to the pesky habit of the Earth's climate to change (a selfish obsession that our planet has been hard at for 4.5 billion years), but … Continue reading Renewables Disaster Sees Australian Power Prices Jump Another 20% – With Worse to Come
Retailers’ Call for ‘Emissions Intensity Scheme’ Signals End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target
Willing to be accused of stating the bleeding obvious, electricity retailers aren’t in the business of not selling power; they’re in the business of selling power, at a profitable margin, to as many customers as possible. Power retailers in Australia have just come to the horrifying realisation that, with rocketing power prices and an increasingly … Continue reading Retailers’ Call for ‘Emissions Intensity Scheme’ Signals End for Australia’s Renewable Energy Target
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