Adding unreliable and intermittent wind and solar to your grid is like inviting Tasmanian devils to a baby shower; sit back and get ready for total chaos. Whether it’s wrecking the reliability of the grid or generating market distortions that make it impossible for conventional generators to dispatch their wares to the grid, subsidised wind … Continue reading Terrible Twins: Subsidised Wind & Solar Guaranteed Grid and Market Wreckers
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Wind Power Subsidies Crushing Families & Killing Thousands of Real Jobs
**** The wind industry’s fortunes are waning all over the globe. As politicians face the wrath of furious voters lumbered with the ludicrous costs of backing an entirely meaningless power generation source - subsidies are being slashed; investors are grabbing their money on the way out, before the whole Ponzi scheme inevitably collapses; and wind … Continue reading Wind Power Subsidies Crushing Families & Killing Thousands of Real Jobs
Texans Move to Slam Wind Power Subsidies
**** The great wind power fraud is in meltdown around the globe. In the US, ‘wind power’ states have cut their state based subsidies to wind power outfits (or are well on the path of doing so); and Republicans are out to prevent the extension of the Federal government’s PTC wind power subsidy: 2015: the … Continue reading Texans Move to Slam Wind Power Subsidies
Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
As time goes by, the number of crack energy market experts joining the effort to bring the great wind power fraud to its inevitable denouement – and the quality of their work directed at that fine and noble task – has increased exponentially. The American "Institute for Energy Research" has just released a brilliant piece … Continue reading Institute for Energy Research Takes the Scalpel to the Great Wind Power Fraud
Jim O’Donnell: the Great Wind Power Fraud is a Rich Man’s Game & the Poor End Up Paying
The following talk by Jim O’Donnell, Professor Emeritus of Business and Economics, Huntington University, was given to the Huntington County Planning Commission. The Economics of Wind Energy huntingtonccc.org James O'Donnell 12 November 2014 Local Business & Economics Professor Urges Huntington County Plan Commission to Not Allow Wind Farms I’m speaking tonight as an adopted son … Continue reading Jim O’Donnell: the Great Wind Power Fraud is a Rich Man’s Game & the Poor End Up Paying