The clueless reporter evidently does not understand the difference between CAPACITY and GENERATION.
Tag: Solar power
Exploding Energy Prices in Costly California
Green energy policies are the primary cause for high and escalating California energy prices.
Time to Retire the Term “Renewable Energy” from Serious Discussions and Policy Directives: Part 3
“Renewable good, non-renewable bad” is far too simplistic and unfortunately influential
Time to Retire the Term “Renewable Energy” from Serious Discussions and Policy Directives: Part II
The impact of “renewables” on reliability is too vague to be meaningful.
Status Report From Another Would Be “Climate Leader,” The UK
The rest of the world is getting a good laugh at Britain’s expense. As Darwall states, “The metric of leadership success is followship.” By that metric, as well as every…
More Media Lies About the Texas Electricity Grid
Guest “Lying must be like breathing to them” by David Middleton Solar, wind energy keeping Texas power grids running amid weekslong heat wave Inflated prices and power failures could have…
Solar Optimism and Coal Alarmism a Century Ago
The notion that the sun’s energy can be converted into electricity because it is just there to be concentrated is naivete.
Reliable vs. Intermittent Generation: A Primer (Part I)
Therefore, if fuel costs are rising, and I am running my generation facility on a skeleton crew, what’s left for me to cut?
The Final Nail in The Coffin Of “Renewable” Energy
Nut zero, then, is a striking instance of Monckton’s Law, which states that any attempt by governments to interfere in the free market in pursuit of some political objective or…
Blackouts… Because Climate Change! Blame Natural Gas!
Guest “They got it bass-ackwards, once again” by David Middleton Electricity operators must wake up to climate change — or brace for summer outagesBY ROMANY M. WEBB, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR –…
Solar farms: A toxic blot on the landscape
If the government really plans a big increase in solar capacity, the current desecration of our countryside will be the tip of the iceberg. It is also clear that new…
The performance of UK Weather Dependent Renewables: 2002 – 2020
And it is already happening in the UK: the “trip” of an Offshore wind farm on a breezy summer afternoon contributed to the major UK power outage of 9/8/2019. As…
Weather Dependent Renewable power performance in Europe DE UK FR: 2020
In 2020, Weather Dependent Renewables (Wind and Solar Power) made up 58% of all power generation installations in the three Nations, DE UK FR. Together they contributed about 24% of…
Looking forward: new technologies in the 2020’s
The basis for this post is an article by Eli Dourado that I spotted on twitter: Notes on technology for the 2020’s. Will the new decade be the roaring 20’s…
Wind and solar are losing ground to gas
What is amusing is that gas-fired power generation, a fossil fuel with no subsidy, is still growing faster than wind and solar. Far from taking over, wind and solar are…
Biden’s Energy Plans Are Expensive—and Dangerous
Overhauling the entire electric grid, which some call the world’s largest machine, and converting much of it to wind and solar power, is not just a momentous task. It is…
Solar Power Costs 2-3 Times As Much As Wind, Fossil Fuels and Nuclear
Guest “why?” by David Middleton Why? Because California… OCTOBER 9, 2020Solar photovoltaic generators receive higher electricity prices than other technologies In 2019, the average U.S. wholesale price for electricity generated…
Climate change could mean fewer sunny days for hot regions banking on solar power
While solar power is a leading form of renewable energy, new research suggests that changes to regional climates brought on by global warming could make areas currently considered ideal for…
Aussie Government: “we don’t need a [carbon] price because renewables are too cheap”
According to The Guardian, the Australian Government is “more concerned with the impact of short term electricity price rises on a small number of highly energy-intensive manufacturers” than solving the…
Wildfires inhibiting solar power generation in California
Guest “irony can be so ironic” by David Middleton SEPTEMBER 30, 2020Smoke from California wildfires decreases solar generation in CAISO In the first two weeks of September 2020, average solar-powered…
False Energy Transition: The View from Australia (Nick Cater, Menzies Research Centre)
In the current ‘transition’, the process is reversed unless we are prepared to countenance the mass use of nuclear technology.