It took the wind power disaster to unfold in South Australia before mainstream media started to notice the bleeding obvious: these things don't work - on any level. Slowly, but surely the press have pounced - attacking the causes and consequences of pouring $billions in subsidies at a power generation system which can only be … Continue reading South Australian Debacle Shows Wind Power a ‘Proven Failure’
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Wind Industry’s Deathknell: Wind Power Shortfall Means Power Consumers Will be Forced to Pay $20 Billion in Fines
*** While the short-term fortunes wind power outfits have never looked brighter, the fact that the price of RECs (aka LGCs) has recently gone through the roof is a signal that the game is all but up. Before we detail why the wind industry is on its last legs, we’ll start with a couple of … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Deathknell: Wind Power Shortfall Means Power Consumers Will be Forced to Pay $20 Billion in Fines
Enron Rides Again: Wind Power Chaos Enables Rampant Price Gouging by Conventional Generators
South Australia’s ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes has rendered it an international laughing stock. Daily, routine, total and totally unpredictable collapses in wind power output result in price gouging efforts that see the spot price for power rocket from around $70 per MWh to $2,000 to $4,000 per MWh, in a matter … Continue reading Enron Rides Again: Wind Power Chaos Enables Rampant Price Gouging by Conventional Generators
Why Wind Power Causes ‘Load-Shedding’ & Blackouts in SA: Power Generation for Dummies
There are 3 electricity essentials – that the power source and its delivery to homes and businesses be: 1) reliable; 2) secure; and 3) affordable. Which means that wind power – a wholly weather dependent power source, that can’t be stored and costs 3-4 times the cost of conventional power – scores NIL on all … Continue reading Why Wind Power Causes ‘Load-Shedding’ & Blackouts in SA: Power Generation for Dummies
Running on Wind Power & Wishes: South Australia Becomes a ‘Fools Paradise’
Last week had State Energy Ministers in a desperate rush to Canberra to plead for help from Federal Energy Minister, Josh Frydenberg at an urgently convened COAG Energy Summit. In the lead up, every one of them was being fed lines from those eager to profit from South Australia's energy calamity: grid operators, keen to … Continue reading Running on Wind Power & Wishes: South Australia Becomes a ‘Fools Paradise’
Rural Germans Revolt Against Wind Power Roll-Out: Farmers Sabotage Wind Projects
Far from being in love with these things - as the gullible press here would have us believe - the Germans that are forced to endure them, hate them just as much as everyone else in the World. In this wrap up of a report from Die Welt by NoTricksZone, set-upon rural Germans have had - … Continue reading Rural Germans Revolt Against Wind Power Roll-Out: Farmers Sabotage Wind Projects
Believe in Unicorns & Pixies? Why Not Believe in the Fantasy of Wind Power, Too?
The wind-cultist is a special breed: long on starry-eyed belief; short on our good friends 'logic' and 'reason' - occupying a fact-and-consequence-free netherworld, in which their favoured form of power generation arrives as a result of meteorological serendipity and, when it doesn't, the power still appears, as if by magic. Except that the 'magic' was … Continue reading Believe in Unicorns & Pixies? Why Not Believe in the Fantasy of Wind Power, Too?
Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
The political lunatics in charge of Ireland's wind powered energy debacle are about to reap the reality of what they have sown. Despite all that puff and guff about wind power being free, and getting cheaper all the time, the Irish have just been told that the Public Service Obligation (a levy tacked on power bills … Continue reading Irish Eyes Ain’t Smiling: Wind Power Push Sends Power Prices Into Orbit
Wind Power Debacle: South Australia an International Joke
*** South Australia is, thanks to its ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, now on the World stage: for all the wrong reasons. With total and totally unpredictable collapses in its wind power output, SA is now accustomed to routine load-shedding (dropping suburbs and whole regions off the grid to keep the rest … Continue reading Wind Power Debacle: South Australia an International Joke
SA’s Wind Power Debacle: Opportunity Knocks for More Subsidy-Sucking Rent Seekers
Investment is not always good Catallaxy files Judith Sloan 29 July 2016 Since the return of the Labor-lite Turnbull government – or should that just be Labor – the rent-seekers in the renewable energy space have been out and about. No doubt, the South Australian debacle has thrown a spanner in the works, but the … Continue reading SA’s Wind Power Debacle: Opportunity Knocks for More Subsidy-Sucking Rent Seekers
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