Spurning the illusions of energy “transition,” the UAE pursues addition, diversification, and diplomacy based on reality and geared toward long-term prosperity for all. It is a model the EU would…
Category: Climate Economics
Renewables Obligation Subsidies Top £100 Billion
There was never any democratic mandate for any of this. At no stage were the public consulted, never mind given the opportunity to vote on renewable energy policy, Ed Miliband’s…
RGGI Status Update
…it is past time for the states to ask whether this experiment is worth the cost. If politicians really want to lower electricity costs, the easiest step is to drop…
The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK
Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of…
Feed in Tariff Subsidies Cost £1.8 Billion Last Year
FITs are one of the items not included by the OBR in its table of Environmental Levies, even though they used to be until a few years ago and plainly…
Grid Balancing Costs Set to Rise To £8 Billion By 2030
Nobody in their right mind would have designed such a system. Unfortunately by the time of the next election, most of the damage will be irreversible.
From Tilak’s Substack
The mission, it turns out, is not to save the planet. It is to remake capitalism in the image of the administrative state. And the bill, as always, will be…
Oversupply Of Volatile Solar Energy Leads To Record NEGATIVE Prices!
“The record negative prices are the market’s loudest warning signal that we have an oversupply of unstable generation, but a dramatic lack of flexibility and storage capacity,” Klimanachrichten summarizes.
Co-op City: What It Looks Like When Energy Reality Catches Up To You
We are facing the consequences of having ignorant environmental activists and politicians trying to re-design our energy system. Fortunately, Co-op City comes complete with a large bloc of voters who,…
HSBC: Net Zero Australia “one of the least well placed” to Weather the Iran Oil Shock
“… the Australian economy has also been operating beyond its sustainable capacity …”
Why the UK and EU Keep Doubling Down on Net Zero Dogma in the Face of Spiralling Economic Dysfunction
Freely chosen economic illiteracy, like other ideological afflictions, appears immune to correction by experience. The hangman’s noose may concentrate some minds, but in Westminster and Brussels, the noose is worn…
European energy policy: full speed towards the wall
The signals in Europe are crystal clear. Energy prices are structurally higher than in the United States; the electricity grid is grinding to a halt; industry is leaving Europe; and…
Update On New York Climate Act Negotiations: Details Starting To Emerge
We need to force the activists to admit that their proposals don’t work, and the only way to do it is to run right up to the Green Energy Wall.
Britain’s Skyrocketing Green Energy Prices are Forcing Internet Providers to Ration Access
“… Energy costs are continuing to surge with prices increasing by 70% in recent years. …”
The UK and EU Increasingly Resemble the Soviet Union With Their Sham Democracy and Rigid Ideology
Yet until voters enforce a return to economic literacy, rational energy policy and national sovereignty, Western Europe and Britain will continue its Soviet-style trajectory: central planning without the gulag, energy…
Stop Protecting Insurance Profiteers, San Francisco Chronicle, Climate Change Is Not Responsible for California’s High Cost of Living
Blaming climate change is an easy out for insurance profiteers and their enablers, and it’s even better if the costs of weather damage can be passed off onto oil companies…
$96 Million to Nowhere: The Predictable Failure of Subsidized Electric Buses
https://www.local10.com/news/local/2026/04/14/local-10-examines-why-expensive-electric-buses-sit-in-disrepair-in-miami-dade-broward/ The story begins, as these things often do, with an image that requires very little interpretation—rows of modern electric buses sitting still under the Florida sun, not in service,…
UK Economist Says the Quiet Part Out Loud: High Energy Prices are ‘Good for the Climate’
Energy abundance is not a luxury; it is the foundation of modern civilisation. To pretend otherwise is not sophistication. It is civilisational self-harm. And the bill, as always, lands on…
Report: New England electricity prices among the highest nationwide
Residents in New England pay more for electricity than nearly all others, according to the Energy Affordability 2026 report from the American Legislative Exchange Council.