**** The economics of Germany's “Energiewende” are so bizarre, that you’d think it had been put together by the GDR’s ‘brains trust’, before the Berlin Wall took its tumble in 1989. In Germany, around €100 billion has already been burnt on renewable subsidies; currently the green energy levy costs €56 million every day. And, the … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Surges Plunge Their Neighbours Into Darkness
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Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates: Nation’s Grid on the Brink of Collapse
**** Calamitous Planning: German Wind Parks Overload Power Grid … “At Its Limits” … Record 50,000 Grid Interventions In May! NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 1 July 2015 Online German NDR public radio here wrote last week how northern Germany’s power grid had suffered a major bottleneck that led to the overload of the Flensburg-Niebüll power transmission … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates: Nation’s Grid on the Brink of Collapse
Germany’s Wind Power Debacle: Economic Destruction on an “Astronomical Scale”
**** STT keeps a close eye on Germany. It’s held up by eco-fascist nut jobs around the globe as the wind power “Super Model” - although, as we pointed out in this recent post, their “pin-up girl” is looking a little worse for wear: Germany’s Wind Power ‘Dream’ Becomes a Living Nightmare Last week - … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle: Economic Destruction on an “Astronomical Scale”
It Don’t Take Sherlock to Know; When the Wind Don’t Blow, The Power Don’t Flow
**** STT has - just once or twice - smashed the myth that wind power can provide a meaningful supply of electricity (ie power "on-demand") - and relegated to the fiction aisle the the wind industry's "playbook", where you'll find, in bold print, the oft-told furphy about wind farms "powering" 10s of thousands of homes. … Continue reading It Don’t Take Sherlock to Know; When the Wind Don’t Blow, The Power Don’t Flow
European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses
**** Europe winds back the clock on windmills The Sunday Times Danny Forston 23 November 2014 Lured by subsidies, the power companies went green. But to keep the lights on they have to burn coal Sixty miles northeast of Düsseldorf, outside the town of Hamm in northwest Germany, workers are giving a final tune-up to … Continue reading European Government Support for Wind Power Collapses
Germans Blame “Missing Wind” for their Wind Power Debacle
**** Germany’s Debacle: 2/3 Of Wind Projects “Running Badly To Very Badly”… Case Of The “Missing Wind” NoTricksZone P Gosselin 20 September 2014 Germany-based European Institute for Climate and Energy (EIKE) here brings up a television report on the disappointing returns from wind parks, recently appearing on SWR South German public television. The days of … Continue reading Germans Blame “Missing Wind” for their Wind Power Debacle
Germany’s Offshore Wind Power Debacle
**** The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary to the purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast (see our … Continue reading Germany’s Offshore Wind Power Debacle
Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster
STT has focused on the debacle that is German renewable policy this week, taking a close look at its disastrous renewables policy - the product of an economic suicide pact endorsed by Germany's "Grand Coalition" tagged "GroKo". The GroKo - which cops a belting in this skit from a popular TV news/comedy show - is … Continue reading Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster
Wind Power: Germany’s Road to Economic & Social Disaster
**** In our last post we covered the fact that German economists have (uncharacteristically) united in their opposition to Germany's renewables policy - referred to as the "Energiewende" - which has seen thousands of giant fans - and millions of solar panels - rolled out across Deutschland: one of their number, Max Planck concluding that … Continue reading Wind Power: Germany’s Road to Economic & Social Disaster
Mum & Dad Investors Fleeced as German Wind Power Hits the Wall
**** Thousands of well meaning German mums and dads - conned by wind weasel's lies and promises of fat returns - invested their hard-earned Euros in hundreds of wind projects - now they're watching their cash fast disappearing - like confetti in a cyclone. Meanwhile, to make matters worse, German leader Angela Merkel is shutting … Continue reading Mum & Dad Investors Fleeced as German Wind Power Hits the Wall
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