Alan Moran gets it. Setting a cult-like feel-good power policy, obsessed with wind power isn't just fanciful nonsense, it's nothing short of an economic suicide pact. Here's how things are playing out in Australia's "wind power capital", South Australia. Renewable energy demanding a high price for unreliability The Australian Financial Review Alan Moran 29 July … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Obsession an Economic Suicide Pact
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South Africa Slams the Door on Wind Power: Nuclear Powered Future Beckons
*** STT followers might have tumbled to the fact that we’ve been pretty heavily focused on SA over the last month. However, in this post, we head a few thousand clicks, west across the Indian Ocean to another ‘SA’; this time South Africa, which appears entirely sensible enough to be able to avoid the power … Continue reading South Africa Slams the Door on Wind Power: Nuclear Powered Future Beckons
Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth: With No Storage California Dumps Mountains of Wind & Solar Power
As the wind power debacle unfolds in South Australia - leaving it with an erratic power supply and rocketing power prices - one of the mythical solutions being peddled is that South Australia need only pop out to the shops and pick up a few terawatt/hours worth of battery storage. The way it is being … Continue reading Bulk Battery Storage of Wind Power a Myth: With No Storage California Dumps Mountains of Wind & Solar Power
South Australia’s Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Crushing its Unwilling Subjects
South Australia is, thanks to its attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, an international laughing stock. Its chaotic power supply and crippling power prices are driving its few remaining profitable businesses to the wall, with many of them contemplating packing up shop and leaving South Australia for good. The panic stricken members of the … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Crushing its Unwilling Subjects
SA’s Wind Power Debacle a ‘Poisoned Chalice’ for Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg
The Federal Energy and Environment Minister seems to hold a belief that he can tiptoe around the toxic political quagmire that is South Australia's power supply and pricing calamity. As they say 'well, good luck with that!' Already the target of sniggering Australian satire, South Australia's wind power 'experiment' has turned it into an international … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle a ‘Poisoned Chalice’ for Federal Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg
South Australia’s Lessons for the World: Subsidised Wind Power The Fastest Route to Social & Economic Disaster
Judith Sloan: lays out a lesson on avoiding economic & social disaster. **** In a week when the mainstream media have been (finally) laying out the catastrophic results of South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to power itself on sunshine and breezes, it would be rude not to include this cracking article penned by The Australian's top-flight … Continue reading South Australia’s Lessons for the World: Subsidised Wind Power The Fastest Route to Social & Economic Disaster
South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster: No Solution in Sight
‘Panic’ is the only word capable of describing the mood among South Australia’s policymakers. Over the last few posts, STT has detailed a wealth of media coverage on SA’s self-inflicted energy debacle. The former general manager of the Electricity Trust of South Australia (ETSA), Bruce Dinham is one of many groping around (knowing SA’s power … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Disaster: No Solution in Sight
South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Leaves Labor Government Begging for Baseload Power
STT followers might be tiring of our focus on South Australia. However, the disaster - both economic and social - unfolding in SA should be taken as a warning to any policy maker foolish enough to believe that an economy can be powered using sunshine and breezes. Here’s another take on the debacle from The … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Leaves Labor Government Begging for Baseload Power
‘Green’ Epiphany: Environmentalists Join Fight Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
The death of the wind industry didn’t come about because BIG Coal felt ‘threatened‘ and set out in some kind of John Grisham conspiracy to wreck it by fair means or foul. No. What kills it is the fact that a growing band of ‘eco-travellers’ – of the kind who once placed their faith in … Continue reading ‘Green’ Epiphany: Environmentalists Join Fight Against the Great Wind Power Fraud
Wind Industry Makes Absurd Claim that Wind Power Lowers Retail Power Prices
The latest wind industry wheeze is to turn black into white, by claiming that occasionally adding wind power to an electricity grid (weather permitting, of course) lowers retail power prices. Here’s Alan Moran unpacking the latest furphy. Black is white: and wind generators drive down electricity prices, too … Catallaxy Files Alan Moran 8 June … Continue reading Wind Industry Makes Absurd Claim that Wind Power Lowers Retail Power Prices
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