Renewables Reckoning: German Business Being Throttled by Rocketing Power Prices

There’s something uncanny about the relationship between rocketing power prices and renewable energy: ask a German, Dane or South Australian. The consequences of Germany’s obsession with sunshine and breezes are starting to hit home, with a vengeance. Its economic backbone, referred to as the ‘Mittelstand’ (small to mid-size firms, either in family or private hands) […]

Energy Economics Mythbusters: Claims Renewables Create Real & Lasting Jobs Just Fake News

One “justification” put up by the wind industry and its parasites for the social and economic chaos caused by spiralling power costs and – in places like notionally wind ‘powered’ South Australia – load shedding and blackouts (caused by daily wind power output collapses) is the claim that investment in wind power would create a […]

UK Subsidising Wind Industry Jobs at £115,000 a Pop & Killing REAL Jobs in the “Bargain”

Wind farm owners ‘get £115,000 subsidy for UK every job they create’ The Telegraph Emily Gosden 12 November 2014 Wind industry says record numbers of people employed in the UK – but critics say the subsidy bill has risen even faster Wind farm developers receive more than £115,000 in subsidy for every person they employ […]

James Delingpole: Ten Reasons why People who Support Wind Farms Are Deluded, Criminal or Insane

**** Ten Reasons why People who Support Wind Farms Are Deluded, Criminal or Insane. Which One Are You, Vince Cable? Breitbart.com James Delingpole 8 October 2014 Opposing wind farms is “irrational”, claimed Liberal Democrat MP Vince Cable at his party conference yesterday. Actually, no. Here are some reasons why anyone who doesn’t oppose wind farms […]

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”, […]

Friday Funnies: German Satirical Take on Renewables Disaster

STT has focused on the debacle that is German renewable policy this week, taking a close look at its disastrous renewables policy – the product of an economic suicide pact endorsed by Germany’s “Grand Coalition” tagged “GroKo”. The GroKo – which cops a belting in this skit from a popular TV news/comedy show – is […]