Electricity is one of those things that is only fully appreciated when a hopeful user is deprived of it. Across Europe, the cultlike fixation on wind and solar has provided precisely the environment in which households and businesses are coming to sense just how important having power as and when they need it, really is. … Continue reading Bitter Reality: Unreliable Renewables Will See Germans Freezing In The Dark This Winter
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Renewables Triumph: Wind & Solar ‘Powered’ Germans Aim for World Record Power Price
Remember all that guff about ‘cheap’ wind and solar power? No? That’s probably because every country that throws buckets of subsidies at the unreliables ends up suffering off-the-charts power prices. The wind and sun are free, we’re told. But, somehow, the promises of cheap power at the end of the renewable energy transition rainbow keep … Continue reading Renewables Triumph: Wind & Solar ‘Powered’ Germans Aim for World Record Power Price
Putin Delivers Germans Valuable Lesson: Forget About Running On Sunshine & Breezes
Germany’s so-called wind and solar ‘transition’ - the ‘Energiewende’ was in strife before Vlad Putin invaded Ukraine; post invasion, it’s a diabolical mess. German households and businesses are already suffering Europe's highest power prices; since Putin’s Ukrainian adventure began, German power prices have rocketed, further still, recently hitting a record 40 US cents per kWh. In … Continue reading Putin Delivers Germans Valuable Lesson: Forget About Running On Sunshine & Breezes
Industrial Degeneration: Crippling Cost of Subsidised Wind & Solar Destroying Our Economic Future
Thanks to the hidden and crippling cost of subsidised wind and solar, households and businesses are being hit with staggering bills, with prices at levels unimaginable, until recently. Double digit annual percentage increases are now the norm. As we reported yesterday, Brits are already suffering power prices more than double what they were 12 months … Continue reading Industrial Degeneration: Crippling Cost of Subsidised Wind & Solar Destroying Our Economic Future