**** Britain’s energy policy: Betting on a miracle CAPX Rupert Darwall 1 December 2015 Ugly reality has broken into British energy policy. Last week’s speech by the climate and energy secretary Amber Rudd is a milestone that defines the end of the fantasy stage of the renewables fairy tale. Policy makers must now grapple with … Continue reading Britain’s Wind Power ‘Policy’: Betting on a Miracle
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Want Insane Power Prices & Mass Blackouts? Then Wind Power’s your ‘Answer’
**** The true cost of wind power is insane. Californians – victims of an early burst of ‘wind’ pay fully 40% more than the US average for power: California’s Wind ‘Powered’ Dream Turns to Nightmare: Power Prices 40% Higher than US Average South Australians dwell in Australia’s economically dismal ‘wind power capital’. Their attempt to … Continue reading Want Insane Power Prices & Mass Blackouts? Then Wind Power’s your ‘Answer’
Britain Laments: Wind Power Sends Power Prices Skyward, Risks Total Grid Collapse & Fails to Cut CO2 Emissions
**** In a ‘don’t say we didn’t warn you’ piece, Matt Ridley nails down precisley why THESE THINGS DON’T WORK – on any level. Over to Matt. Wind power makes electricity expensive and unreliable without cutting emissions Rational Optimist Matt Ridley 13 November 2015 By preventing investment in gas, the dash for wind has done … Continue reading Britain Laments: Wind Power Sends Power Prices Skyward, Risks Total Grid Collapse & Fails to Cut CO2 Emissions
Another Wind Power Collapse has Britain Scrambling to Keep its Lights On (Again)
**** There's an old adage about 'bad luck' coming in threes. For the wind industry its rotten 'luck' seems to run in endless crashing waves. Here's another board-snapping set from the UK. National Grid uses ‘last resort’ measures to keep UK lights on The Telegraph Emily Gosden 4 November 2015 Coal plant breakdowns and low … Continue reading Another Wind Power Collapse has Britain Scrambling to Keep its Lights On (Again)
Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
**** STT could be forgiven for being just a little smug after events unfolded last Sunday night (1 November 2015) in Australia’s “Wind Farm Capital”, South Australia. As our post - Wind Power Disaster Unfolds: SA Facing Total Blackouts, Rocketing Power Prices & Thousands More Chopped from the Grid - was being put together for … Continue reading Wind Industry’s Armageddon: Wind Farm Output Collapse Leaves 110,000 South Australian Homes & Businesses Powerless
David Cameron Terminates UK’s Wind Industry: Subsidies to be Completely Scrapped
**** David Cameron won an election promising to scrap wind power subsidies; and plans to follow through - with terminal results for the wind industry in Britain. UK Pledges To Ax Green Energy Subsidies Daily Caller Andrew Follett 15 October 2015 The United Kingdom is pledging to end all green energy subsidies by the mid-2020s. “By … Continue reading David Cameron Terminates UK’s Wind Industry: Subsidies to be Completely Scrapped
Britain’s Insanely Expensive & Utterly Pointless Wind Power Fiasco Exposed
**** When it comes to their demand for electricity, the power consumer has a couple of basic needs: when they hit the light switch they assume illumination will shortly follow and that when the kettle is kicked into gear it’ll be boiling soon thereafter. And the power consumer assumes that these – and similar actions … Continue reading Britain’s Insanely Expensive & Utterly Pointless Wind Power Fiasco Exposed
UK’s Wind Power Debacle to Dish Up Another ‘Winter of Discontent’
*** Electricity network in 'uncharted territory' as blackouts loom The Telegraph Andrew Critchlow 5 September 2015 As Britain loses one more power station, experts argue the grid has been left too exposed. Picture a cold and dark wintery evening in November and millions of householders across the country are switching on their kettles at the … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle to Dish Up Another ‘Winter of Discontent’
UK’s Wind Power Debacle Deepens: Widespread Winter Blackouts Forecast
**** The lunatics that push wind power are being forced to face up to the fact that it is - and will always be - meaningless as a power generation source. Which to the sane and rational is no surprise: a 'system' that relies on the vagaries of the weather isn't a 'system' - it's … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle Deepens: Widespread Winter Blackouts Forecast
Germany’s Wind Power Chaos to Leave them Freezing in the Dark
**** The Germans are rueing the day the bought into the great wind power fraud. The Germans went into wind power harder and faster than anyone else – and the cost of doing so is catching up with a vengeance. The subsidies have been colossal, the impacts on the electricity market chaotic and – contrary … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Chaos to Leave them Freezing in the Dark
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