Buying shares in wind and solar manufacturers makes horseracing and cocaine habits look like canny investments. Big wind turbine makers like Vestas and Siemens have destroyed $billions worth of value for their shareholders, as input costs skyrocket and revenues crash, smashing share prices along the way. Steve Goreham is an analyst who has been watching … Continue reading Making a Small Fortune Investing in Wind & Solar Means Starting With A Large One
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Europe’s Nuclear Reset Means Wind Turbine Makers Face Total Collapse
Europe’s wind and solar industries are on the ropes, thanks to the sudden embrace of ever-reliable nuclear power across the Continent. Producing machines that can never produce power on demand was always going to end in tears. But moves to amp up construction of nuclear power plants - initiated by the French and followed by … Continue reading Europe’s Nuclear Reset Means Wind Turbine Makers Face Total Collapse
Cash Inferno: Offshore Wind Power Fastest Way to Squander Countless $Billions
In the absence of endless subsidies and guaranteed, fixed-price contracts (set at ludicrously high prices), the purported economic case for wind power never, ever stacks up. And the metrics are far worse out at sea. Notwithstanding the $billions in subsidies - gouged from taxpayers and/or lumped on power consumers’ crushing power bills - proposed projects … Continue reading Cash Inferno: Offshore Wind Power Fastest Way to Squander Countless $Billions
Crash Test Dummies: Wind Turbine Maker Siemens Suffers Massive Share Price Slump
The world’s wind turbine makers are bleeding cash; none of them are capable of turning a profit and all of them are facing financial ruin. General Electric’s renewables business blew a cool $2.2bn of shareholder value in 2022. Siemens Gamesa has axed hundreds of jobs in Europe and America. Vestas, Nordex and Enercon are also … Continue reading Crash Test Dummies: Wind Turbine Maker Siemens Suffers Massive Share Price Slump
Wind Industry’s Major Meltdown: In 2022 GE, Vestas & Siemens Energy Lost $4.6 Billion
In 2022, GE’s renewables division scorched $2 billion, Vestas vaporized $1.68 billion and Siemens Energy said goodbye to $943.48 million. It seems that it’s only the hope that governments might throw a few more taxpayer’s $billions in their direction that keeps these outfits hanging on. While that might have been a sensible tack to take … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Major Meltdown: In 2022 GE, Vestas & Siemens Energy Lost $4.6 Billion
Wind Turbine Makers Demand Taxpayer Bailout For Mounting Billion-Dollar Losses
Wind turbine makers are bleeding cash, and several are terminal. Siemens Gamesa has been axing hundreds of jobs in Europe and America. Vestas, Nordex and Enercon are also on the ropes. The cause of all this corporate misery is down to a collapse in wind factory investment, which is down to a collapse in wind … Continue reading Wind Turbine Makers Demand Taxpayer Bailout For Mounting Billion-Dollar Losses
Biggest Losers: Thousands Sacked As Germany’s Wind Turbine Makers Face Financial Doom
Cut the subsidies to wind power and turbine makers soon fold. Siemens Gamesa has been axing hundreds of jobs in Europe and America as the wheels come off the renewable energy gravy train. Now, Vestas, Nordex and Enercon are also facing financial ruin, and for all the same reasons. Some of their travails are caused by the fact … Continue reading Biggest Losers: Thousands Sacked As Germany’s Wind Turbine Makers Face Financial Doom