From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Paul Kolk
Ed Miliband is facing a growing legal threat from a string of councils over his decision to unleash a wave of electricity pylons across Britain.
Local leaders in Essex, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk have said the Energy Secretary will “wreck” their landscapes by rolling out vast swathes of green energy infrastructure.
They claim that their countryside will be disproportionately affected by the rollout, which they say will scare off tourists and ruin farmland.
As a result, all four have warned that they will launch a High Court challenge to block Mr Miliband’s plans.
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For a political party that is all about idiotic non-binary tosh and certain identities etc Starmer has, surprisingly, given us a… binary choice.
“”Voters will have to accept pylons or higher taxes, says Starmer
“If you want lower energy bills, we’re going to have to have pylons above the ground.”
And the lies, they keep coming…
“”The Prime Minister said the Government would consult with people on projects””
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/keir-starmer-labour-party-east-anglia-government-national-grid-b2620908.html
Sounds reasonable? But then we all know how ‘consultation’ works…
“”Lambeth Council is facing a High Court challenge over a new low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) scheme in West Dulwich.
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The Department for Transport’s guidance on LTNs states: “LTNs should only be introduced where there is strong evidence of local support and where the benefits clearly outweigh the costs.”
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“The council refuses to listen or engage with the community, insisting it knows best despite evidence to the contrary. “Democracy has been replaced with diktats, as councillors and staff relentlessly pursue a green ideology
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A source told the Telegraph: “Seemingly as a result of the hostility to the proposals, the council members and officers who had attended took an early lunch break and also subsequently concluded the event early such that anyone who arrived during the unadvertised lunch break or towards the end of the advertised time slot was unable to participate.”
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/ltn-west-dulwich-lambeth-council-court-south-london-b1184839.html
Lambeth is… a Labour council. And the wishes of its people count for nothing whatsoever.
UK economic outlook
“Voters will have to accept pylons or higher taxes, says Starmer.”
The end result is usually ‘both’.
And of course we can “celebrate” just closing down the last coal fired Power Station in the country. Oh well, no need to worry we can just make Norway richer by buying their power when we can’t generate enough of our own. Yet another way to help bankrupt the country
Celebrate or, as in my case, just get comfortably numb…
Wrong album cover for Comfortably Numb…that should be “The Wall.” Cover shown is Dark Side of the Moon.
“”Wrong album cover for Comfortably Numb””
So very, very sorry.
Have you messaged the person who uploaded that video to YouTube to correct them? If not why not?
Speaking for AGW is Not Science to answer your question: “Not my job!”
No charge.
They didn’t post an album cover – they posted a VIDEO.
Elections have consequences. Deal with it!
The real buffer Mr Miliband and his numbskull colleagues in government will run into is called: the Laws of Thermodynamics.
Let us not forget who is “advising” Miliband and Nunu Labour…
Miliband is retaining his long-term advisers. Guiding the UK’s energy policy operation will be climate activistTobias Garnett, the former coordinator of Extinction Rebellion’s legal strategy team who represented the road-gluing activists in court. Garnett believes our trajectory is currently “descending swiftly into a politics of ecofascism forged in the crucible of scarce resources, droughts, floods, climate wars and forced migration.”
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Also on the team is Jonty Leibowitz, whose passion is arguing for socialist reforms to football that include:
To fix “the deep wealth inequalities between the men’s and women’s games“, introduce a “mandatory wealth tax or levy for all clubs which do not promote equal resource and pay for both games“.
SpAd Eleanor Salter’s focus is “integrating nature into the climate offer“. Salter thinks a “fundamental shift” is required to deal with the “climate breakdown“, which includes “taking many cars off the roads altogether.” Her other “nature” proposals include allowing anyone to traipse across private property to make “the countryside open to all” but especially to gypsies, whose “access rights are already under threat from the authoritarian Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which seeks to criminalise trespass.”
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SpAds are often relied on to temper the barmy ideas of their Cabinet Minister. No chance of that in Ed’s team…
https://order-order.com/2024/08/12/revealed-milibands-extreme-left-policy-team/
6th form politics has taken over.
Why do they always talk about ‘investment in’ and ‘modernisation of’ the grid, when they mean profligate waste on the pointless ‘Heath-Robinson-isation’?
Because the way to implement radical change includes corruption of language, so that no one can question the logic of what is said. Have you never heard of Newspeak?
Ever hear of a rhetorical question?
I reckon rxc6422 just asked one…
They should underground the entire debacle.
UG Transmission Lines (No Pylons)
UG Solar Panels (still generate the same usable energy)
UG Wind Turbines (ditto tritto quadritto and quintitto)
Then their view would be unobstructed and their farms pristine.
OR require all new infrastructure to be placed firmly on Lord Whatshisfaces Estate
Obviously they will have to bury all the power lines. And then bury all the windmills and solar panels, too. And then all the clean, renewable power will be really reliable and affordable and will not harm any vulnerable groups of pepple or species or viewsheds. /s
UK 50 MW Kincardine floating wind system was placed in service on October 2021
It produced 144 GWh in 2023
It was predicted to produce 200 GWh
CF = 144000/(8766 x 50) = 0.329, a far cry from 0.457 predicted by proponents
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Located 15 km off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, water depths 60 to 80 m
It has five Vestas V164-9.5 MW and one V80-2 MW,, each installed on WindFloat® semi-submersible platforms, designed by Principle Power.
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/10/19/worlds-largest-floating-offshore-wind-farm-fully-operational/
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Operating results in year 2023:
All numbers are in UK pounds
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Cost = Finance 30 mil, Admin 5 mil, Other 46 mil = 81 mil
Production cost 81000000/144000 = 562/MWh
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Income =Tax credit 6 mil, Subsidy 31 mil, Sales 13.3 mil = 50.3 mil
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LOSS without subsidies = 81 – 13.3 = 67.7
LOSS with subsidies = 67.7 – 37 = 30.7
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It operates under a PPA at 92/MWh and receives subsidies at 125/MWh, for a total of 217/MWh.
https://x.com/adissentient/status/1840690466477535685
World’s first floating wind farm Hywind Scotland faces shutdown for ‘heavy maintenance’
Norway’s Equinor confirms component changes needed on all five Siemens Gamesa 6MW machines operating since 2017
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https://images.dngroup.com/image/eyJ3IjoxOTYwLCJrIjoiYzI5MGY0MzUwNTIzZmM2Y2FjYWFhMmI5ZTQwYjA4ZTUiLCJmIjoid2VicCIsImNyb3AiOlswLDk3LDE2MDAsNzk2XSwiciI6MiwibyI6Imdsb2JhbCJ9
One of five 6MW Siemens Gamesa being towed out to Hywind Scotland in 2017
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Published 12 January 2024, 10:03
Norwegian energy giant Equinor will temporarily remove all five floating wind turbines from the pioneering Hywind Scotland array later this year after discovering a need for “heavy maintenance” on the Siemens Gamesa machines deployed there, Recharge has learned.
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The 6MW turbines will be towed back to Wergeland on the west coast of Norway, as part of a maintenance program that is likely to take around four months and will disrupt power output from the project operating 24 km off Peterhead since 2017.
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All units will be reconnected back on the Hywind Scotland site when the maintenance is complete, a spokesman for the Norwegian company confirmed.
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The work will involve changing various components, including bearings on the turbines, as well as increased routine maintenance in the future.
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“What we see from operational data, such as excessive stresses on bearings, points to the need for… heavy maintenance on the turbines,”
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The cost of towing from Scotland to Norway, repairs and lack of production, towing from Norway to Scotland and reconnecting, will be significant.
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If such wind turbines were installed in Maine, round-trip towing, and lack of production would be much greater.
The subsidy is 3.5ROC/MWh, worth £217/MWh over calendar 2023, and currently worth about £255/MWh. The PPA appears to be based on day ahead market prices.
Yup. Strangely people are concerned about this.
Slightly off topic.
The Grauniad had a page yesterday (30th September) with two articles.
The first was about the closure of the UK’s last remaining coal fired power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar which included a pompous quote from a director of a climate change think tank –
“It is right that [the UK] is the first major economy to exit coal power. This is true global leadership”
Immediately below this article was a smaller one entitled ‘Rising bills mean 46% will ration energy this winter, survey says’
The irony completely passed the paper by.
This is true global
leadershiploneliness.You can’t say it’s leadership until you have a following.
The Grauniad doesn’t do irony.
. . . to say nothing about the visual blight engendered by vast patches of PV panels on “solar farms” and similar (but visible at much greater distances) patches of wind turbines on “wind farms”.
So many, many people have forgotten, or never encountered, the phrase “unintended consequences”. Good grief!
Miliband, just one more worthless unaccountable bureaucrat. A part of the crappiest part of government.
Worthless, sure. Unaccountable, no.
He is elected and unaccountably popular.
https://electionresults.parliament.uk/elections/3423
Elections have consequences.
Thanks.
“At the 2024 general election, Miliband was again re-elected, with an increased vote share of 52.4% and an increased majority of 9,126.[95] Following Labour’s victory at the general election, Miliband was appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero by Starmer. He was among several ministers under Blair and Brown to be appointed to Starmer’s cabinet.[96] Two days after being appointed, Miliband lifted the offshore wind ban.”
I understood he was appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, I didn’t realize it was as an elected official.
He was elected as an MP, but appointed as a Minister.
Not only the electricity pylons for their spaghetti and meatballs fickles rollout but the climate changers are also getting pushback on the environmental problems with land based wind turbine factories. Also with land wind turbulence they have to go on top of hills and suitable sites are getting scarcer so the solution is offshore wind factories and out of sight out of mind.
The problem with offshoring is much higher platform cost so to try and ameliorate that the industry has pushed the engineering limits of blade size and now they’re pulling back from the brink of bankruptcy and passing on the costs-
New Jersey hits pause on an offshore wind farm that can’t find turbine blades (inquirer.com)
That leaves the already committed climate changers scrambling around trying to keep up their ‘fickles are cheaper’ mantra while these 100M plus long blades break or shed plastic on them. Delay or denial the turbine industry can’t bail them out or cover for them any longer.
Meanwhile back on land the corporate shell would dearly like to rent not buy your land-
Concerns over renewable energy clean-up bill turns some off wind turbines in rural communities (msn.com)
and they’re prepared to pay a handsome rent on behalf of all the very distant electricity end users and taxpayers. Just concentrate on the feet up dollars and sign here folks…..