Never Ending Story: Wind Industry Delivers Part-Time Power But Demands Perpetual Subsidies

The wind and solar industries face an existential threat, with governments throwing every available resource at resuscitating their economies, instead of pandering to the renewable energy sector. The Draconian measures adopted to prevent the spread of COVID-19 mean that governments have a choice. Throw taxpayer’s dollars at filthy rich wind and solar power outfits (which … Continue reading Never Ending Story: Wind Industry Delivers Part-Time Power But Demands Perpetual Subsidies

Corona Mania: US Wind & Solar Industries Demand $Billions In Subsidies From Virus Stimulus Package

The hysteria generated by COVID-19 is nothing compared to the panic that’s broken out among renewable energy rent-seekers in the USA. With the Federal government channelling $2 trillion into a coronavirus stimulus package, wind and solar outfits appear to be suffering a #metoo moment; they’ve missed out on the cash and they’re crying foul. The … Continue reading Corona Mania: US Wind & Solar Industries Demand $Billions In Subsidies From Virus Stimulus Package

False Dawn: On The Hollow Promise Of An All Wind & Solar Powered Future

Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D”. That was 36 years ago. There has been no lack of assistance in the form of … Continue reading False Dawn: On The Hollow Promise Of An All Wind & Solar Powered Future