**** Calamitous Planning: German Wind Parks Overload Power Grid … “At Its Limits” … Record 50,000 Grid Interventions In May! NoTricksZone Pierre Gosselin 1 July 2015 Online German NDR public radio here wrote last week how northern Germany’s power grid had suffered a major bottleneck that led to the overload of the Flensburg-Niebüll power transmission … Continue reading Germany’s Wind Power Debacle Escalates: Nation’s Grid on the Brink of Collapse
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There’s Only One Problem with Claims that Wind Power ‘Kills Coal’: and that’s the Wind
**** The fact that wind power depends on the ..... ahem ... wind is the biggest bugbear to eco-fascist plans for giant fan domination across the globe; and their ultimate mission to go "fossil free" - they mean abstaining from the use of "fossil fuel", rather than ceasing to rely on T-Rex and his - … Continue reading There’s Only One Problem with Claims that Wind Power ‘Kills Coal’: and that’s the Wind
German Wind Power Goes Completely AWOL 11 Times in the Last 80 Days
**** German Wind Power Goes Completely AWOL For The 11th Time This Year … Fossils, Nuclear Again To The Rescue! Pierre Gosselin NoTricksZone 20 March 2015 It’s a good thing Germany still has a lot of conventional power supply from coal and nuclear on line. Otherwise the entire country would have blacked out this morning … Continue reading German Wind Power Goes Completely AWOL 11 Times in the Last 80 Days
More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
**** 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 to the environmental purpose of the policy – CO2 emissions are rising fast: if … Continue reading More on Germany’s Wind Power Fiasco
Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
All megawatts are not equal Judithcurry.com By Planning Engineer 11 December 2014 Some of the Climate Etc. denizens have requested a post on the generation planning process to help them better understand cost issues surrounding the large scale addition and integration of renewable resources. The major takeaway is that differing types of generating resources bring … Continue reading Why Wind Power MWs Will Never Be Equal
UK’s Wind Power Debacle Threatens to Leave Brits in the Dark
**** Scrap the Climate Change Act to keep the lights on, says Owen Paterson The Telegraph Christopher Hope 11 October 2014 The Climate Change Act 2008, which ties Britain into stringent environmental measures, should be suspended - and then scrapped - if other countries refuse to agree legally binding targets, says Owen Paterson MP Britain … Continue reading UK’s Wind Power Debacle Threatens to Leave Brits in the Dark
Reliance on Wind Power: Playing a Lethal Game
A power generation system that can’t produce power on demand is no system at all. Wind power – entirely dependent on the weather – has consistently proven itself incapable of supplying meaningful power - requiring 100% of its capacity to be backed up by fossil fuel generation sources 100% of the time, both here (see … Continue reading Reliance on Wind Power: Playing a Lethal Game
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