Western Europe’s wind drought has them scrambling for fossil fuels, like their lives depend upon it, and it’s as if they didn’t see it coming! Who would ever have thought that the wind might stop blowing for extended spells? The almost dystopian panic brings to mind George Miller’s post-Apocalypse action-thriller, Mad Max 2. Mel Gibson’s … Continue reading Mad Max Rides Again: Post-Renewables Europe Desperate For Fossil Fuels
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Wind & Solar Suicide Squad’s Deliberate Destruction Of Europe’s Power Supply
If the wind and solar rent-seekers destroying our power supplies know what they’re doing, it’s criminal; if they don’t, it’s still criminal. However, the penalty is not borne by them, but by you and me. Where the premise for part-time power is said to be a looming climate ‘catastrophe’, it’s the power supply catastrophe that … Continue reading Wind & Solar Suicide Squad’s Deliberate Destruction Of Europe’s Power Supply
Some Transition!: Europe’s Power Prices Rocket Whenever the Sun Sets & Calm Weather Sets In
Europe’s ‘inevitable transition’ to wind and solar is not looking so ‘inevitable’, after all. A burst of cold, calm weather has grid managers panicking as to where their next megawatt might come from. Those opportunistic ‘devils’ who command reliable, fossil-fuelled power generation sources are making out like veritable bandits. While power punters are bracing … Continue reading Some Transition!: Europe’s Power Prices Rocket Whenever the Sun Sets & Calm Weather Sets In
French Devolution: China Embraces Reliable & Affordable Nuclear as France Lets It Slide
Europe’s power market is in a diabolical mess: massive subsidies to intermittent wind and solar have undermined reliable and affordable power supplies, sending Germany and Denmark’s power prices through the roof (see above). Whereas, France’s heavy reliance on reliable and affordable nuclear means that the French enjoy power prices a mere fraction of those suffered … Continue reading French Devolution: China Embraces Reliable & Affordable Nuclear as France Lets It Slide
Europe’s Energy Crisis: Counting the Staggering Cost of Subsidising Unreliable Wind & Solar
Adding inherently unreliable and heavily subsidised wind and solar to your grid is a guarantee of rocketing power prices. Every place in the world that got serious about wind and solar is being belted with serious increases in electricity costs. Wind and solar ‘powered’ Germany and wind ‘powered’ Denmark pay Europe’s highest power prices, by … Continue reading Europe’s Energy Crisis: Counting the Staggering Cost of Subsidising Unreliable Wind & Solar
Germany’s Energiewende Nightmare: Grid Collapse Looms Due to Erratic Wind & Solar
*** As it goes in South Australia, so it goes in Germany: the attempt to run on sunshine and breezes has led to rocketing power prices, energy poverty and a grid on the brink of collapse. Here's NoTricksZone on the German debacle. ‘Manager Magazin’ Reports How Renewable Electricity Is Taking Germany On A Wild Ride … Continue reading Germany’s Energiewende Nightmare: Grid Collapse Looms Due to Erratic Wind & Solar
Out to Curb Rocketing Power Prices Denmark Slashes Subsidies for Offshore Wind Power
**** In what could pass for another episode of Danish Crime Thriller, 'Follow the Money', the Danish government has pulled the plug on 5 offshore wind farms; a move that will, no doubt, have the boys from Energreen & Co scribbling out hurried suicide notes. With power prices escalating out of control, Europe's wind power … Continue reading Out to Curb Rocketing Power Prices Denmark Slashes Subsidies for Offshore Wind Power
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