South Australia’s Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Crushing its Unwilling Subjects

South Australia is, thanks to its attempt to run on sunshine and breezes, an international laughing stock. Its chaotic power supply and crippling power prices are driving its few remaining profitable businesses to the wall, with many of them contemplating packing up shop and leaving South Australia for good. The panic stricken members of the … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power ‘Experiment’ Crushing its Unwilling Subjects

Delingpole: Ding Dong DECCs is Dead – UK’s Economy Saving Renewables Retreat

*** Britain’s New Prime Minister Drives A Stake Through The Heart Of The Green Vampire Breitbart James Delingpole 14 July 2016 Official: Britain no longer has“the greenest government ever.” Incoming Prime Minister Theresa May has driven a stake through the heart of her predecessor David Cameron’s fluffy, faux-Conservative project by scrapping the Department of Energy … Continue reading Delingpole: Ding Dong DECCs is Dead – UK’s Economy Saving Renewables Retreat

Brits Slash Subsidies to Wind Power as South Australia’s ‘Green Dream’ Turns Nightmare

*** STT followers might be wondering at our present obsession with South Australia’s wind powered, energy calamity.  However, we haven’t forgotten about the rest of the world.  Our focus, we think, is justified; as South Australia stands as the perfect and inevitable example of what happens when you try to run an economy on sunshine … Continue reading Brits Slash Subsidies to Wind Power as South Australia’s ‘Green Dream’ Turns Nightmare

South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Leaves Labor Government Begging for Baseload Power

STT followers might be tiring of our focus on South Australia.  However, the disaster - both economic and social - unfolding in SA should be taken as a warning to any policy maker foolish enough to believe that an economy can be powered using sunshine and breezes.  Here’s another take on the debacle from The … Continue reading South Australia’s Wind Power Debacle Leaves Labor Government Begging for Baseload Power

South Australia’s Energy Fiasco: Wind Power Dropout Leaves BHP with Whopping $2.5 Million Power Bill

Continuing our focus on Australia’s “wind power capital”, South Australia and its self-inflicted energy disaster, here is another story outlining the debacle, this time from The Advertiser. BHP’s SA power bill hit $2.5m - on a single day The Advertiser Luke Griffiths 16 July 2016 THE power bill of the state’s largest private employer recently … Continue reading South Australia’s Energy Fiasco: Wind Power Dropout Leaves BHP with Whopping $2.5 Million Power Bill

Panic Hits South Australia: Wind Power Debacle Sends Power Prices Through the Roof

*** South Australia’s witless Labor government is in a state of full blown panic. Since the closure of Alinta’s Northern and Playford power stations at Port Augusta, peaking power operators (using highly inefficient Open Cycle Gas Turbines or even diesel generators) have been gouging SA’s crippled power market, every time wind power output collapses.  The … Continue reading Panic Hits South Australia: Wind Power Debacle Sends Power Prices Through the Roof

Australia Votes: STT Takes a Little Break

In a thousand places, from Albany to Yerranderie, from the Bungle Bungles to Zeehan, around 16 million Australians have just ticked a few boxes that will determine which team gets to control its Federal Parliament for a while. As to the future of the wind industry, the result matters little: without bi-partisan support, the LRET … Continue reading Australia Votes: STT Takes a Little Break

What’s Wrong with Wind Power? Everything is Wrong with Wind Power

Much to the horror of the wind industry, its parasites and spruikers - and the dismay of the clowns that pretend to govern us - slowly, but surely, the facts are getting out: these things don't work; on any level. Piecing it together, in fine and erudite style, this time it's Sherri Lange from the North … Continue reading What’s Wrong with Wind Power? Everything is Wrong with Wind Power

Former Labor Treasurer – Keith De Lacy: ‘Wind Power Simply Don’t Work – Not Here, Not Anywhere’

Electricity Bill Shorten: Existential Threat to Workers & the Poor. **** As Australians contemplate which box to tick in this coming Saturday’s Federal election, STT thinks it’s time to pause and consider the potential consequences of those actions. Once upon a time, the Australian Labor Party could rightly call itself “the workers’ party”. The ALP … Continue reading Former Labor Treasurer – Keith De Lacy: ‘Wind Power Simply Don’t Work – Not Here, Not Anywhere’

South Australians Locked in Wind Power Price Disaster: Retail Prices Jump Another 12%

*** South Australia is an economic basket case, thanks, in no small part, to its obsession with wind power. Power prices are spiralling out of control. Back in March SA’s businesses were belted with a 90% hike in their bills, that left manufacturers, miners and other power hungry businesses reeling: Wind Power Costs Crushing South … Continue reading South Australians Locked in Wind Power Price Disaster: Retail Prices Jump Another 12%