Germany’s Renewable Energy Disaster – Part 4: ‘Social Disaster’: Wind Turbines Wrecking Rural Communities

Germany’s wind and solar experiment has failed: the so-called ‘Energiewende’ (energy transition) has turned into an insanely costly debacle. German power prices have rocketed; blackouts and load shedding are the norm; and idyllic rural communities are now industrial wastelands (see above). Hundreds of billions of euros have been squandered on subsidies to wind and solar, all in […]

Death’s Icy Grip: Climate Change Won’t Kill Granny, But Climate Change Policies Do

Children as young as five are now taught to fear global warming in the way their mean uncles once terrified them with tales of ghosts and bogeymen, in days gone past. Hysterical and overblown claims that runaway climate change is about to kill your granny are only half wrong: what’s likely to do the old […]

Bjørn Lomborg: Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels, Not Wind Power & Wishes

**** Why Africa Needs Fossil Fuels Project Syndicate Bjørn Lomborg 22 January 2016 SANTIAGO – Africa is the world’s most “renewable” continent when it comes to energy. In the rich world, renewables account for less than a tenth of total energy supplies. The 900 million people of Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding South Africa) get 80% of their […]

Bjørn Lomborg: Wind Power – The Rich Man’s Curse on the Poor

When it comes to assessing the costs, risks and benefits of environmental policy Bjørn Lomborg has always tried to provide balanced, detailed analysis supported by facts and evidence. The economic choices we make – about allocating scarce resources to unlimited wants – should – as Lomborg consistently points out – be made taking into account […]

Bjørn Lomborg: Cost of Renewables Hit Poorest the Hardest

Bjørn Lomborg has become one of the most high profile critics of insanely expensive and utterly pointless renewable energy policies across the globe (see our posts here and here). Bjørn’s back – and this time he adds the impact that our ludicrous Renewable Energy Target has had – and will have – on power prices and […]

Kill the RET and Save the Poor

The REC Tax that comes with the RET is the most regressive tax of all.  The impact on the poorest and most vulnerable is punishing and has led to the new phrase of our time – “energy poverty”. Germany has disconnected some 800,000 homes from its grid simply because they can no longer afford their […]