The wind industry is a lot like Peter Pan – the eternal child, who will fight, kick and scream to avoid the stark reality of adulthood. How often have we heard the yarn about wind power needing a fat pile of subsidies (filched from taxpayers and power consumers) for just that little bit longer to … Continue reading German Energy Giant E.On says: It’s Time for Wind Power to Grow Up
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Wind Power: the Real Threat to Energy Security
**** One of the pitches being tossed up by the wind industry and its parasites at the minute is that adding wind power to the energy “mix” improves “energy security”. The yarn is spun around something like a “don’t put all your eggs in one basket” argument. Ergo, we should put all of our eggs … Continue reading Wind Power: the Real Threat to Energy Security
Wind Farms & “Community Division”: Tales from Rye Park (NSW) & Northumberland (UK)
*** Naked greed, institutional corruption and State-sanctioned corporate bullying and thuggery are part and parcel of the wind industry, wherever you go. We recount below a tale from Northumberland that could have been written anywhere that giant fans have been slung up in the world. In tales like these the phrase “community division” often appears. … Continue reading Wind Farms & “Community Division”: Tales from Rye Park (NSW) & Northumberland (UK)
Wind Turbines: “Don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies”
Ontario is about to boil over, as impacted and threatened communities unite in seething rage at what their political betters have done to energy policy (see our post here). The hard-green-left Liberals have created a wind power policy so insane as to beggar belief: sending power prices through the roof (referred to as “hydro bills”, … Continue reading Wind Turbines: “Don’t run on wind, they run on subsidies”
Power Punters Face $billions in “Fines” as Mandatory RET Deemed “Doomed to Fail”
**** In our earlier posts (here and here) we outlined the fact that – under the mandatory Renewable Energy Target - retailers are fined $65 per MWh for every MW they fall below the mandated 41,000 GWh annual target: what’s called the “shortfall charge” - follow the links here and here. With less than 23,000 … Continue reading Power Punters Face $billions in “Fines” as Mandatory RET Deemed “Doomed to Fail”
Big Wind’s Totally Bogus Subsidy Adventure
If time-travelling teens from the future (a world where wind farms had long since been cut up for scrap) lobbed into 2014, they’d be “totally bummed out” at what must have happened to our collective intelligence to end up with giant fans at centre-stage of today’s “modern” energy policy. They’d think the idea of trying … Continue reading Big Wind’s Totally Bogus Subsidy Adventure
The Renewable Energy Target & the REC Tax: a Political Time-Bomb for Tony Abbott
**** Following the Coalition’s first budget, Australian political discourse is bouncing firmly along the bottom of the gutter. Barrackers for the hard-green-left lunatic fringe - like the ABC, SBS and the Fairfax Press - have taken to seizing on Coalition “horrors”: like the fact that the Treasurer and Finance Minister were unrepentant about being “caught” … Continue reading The Renewable Energy Target & the REC Tax: a Political Time-Bomb for Tony Abbott
UK’s “Green” Wind Power Policy Turns to “Gangrene”
**** Britain’s energy policy is clearly “other worldly” (see our post here) and/or the product of a “finer” kind of thinking (see our post here). When it comes to giant fans, the Brits’ political betters are yet to work out that they’ve been stung by the greatest economic and environmental fraud of all time. One … Continue reading UK’s “Green” Wind Power Policy Turns to “Gangrene”
Australia’s Miners say: “Tony, it’s Time for the Great Big Toxic REC Tax to GO”
**** As the RET Review Panel get ready to help axe the mandatory Renewable Energy Target, Australia’s miners have united to brand the RET a guaranteed “job killer” and just “plain crazy”. The miners quite rightly identify the Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) issued under that policy as an enormous and unnecessary cost burden to households … Continue reading Australia’s Miners say: “Tony, it’s Time for the Great Big Toxic REC Tax to GO”
Energy Market Gorillas Beat Up on the Wind Power Monkeys
**** The opportunity to make submissions to the RET Review Panel ended last Friday. The Panel’s mailbox has been stuffed with cracking submissions from Australia’s leading energy market economists, business groups and, more importantly, the really BIG players in Australia’s energy market (let’s call them the “energy market gorillas”). Two of the biggest - Origin … Continue reading Energy Market Gorillas Beat Up on the Wind Power Monkeys
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