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Category: Climate Economics
Submission on Snowy 2.0 Project Management – September 2026
It took a decade for the fundamental economics of solar power in Australia to become obvious and make grid solar farms stranded assets. It took less than a year for…
Latest European Green Energy Debacle; Portugal’s Largest Flagship Solar Park Insolvent!
In summary, Europe’s green energy revolution is going the way of communism: lots of rosy promises turning into an economic debacle. Collapse is inevitable.
Democratic Socialists want a Green New Deal … and more
Give the Democrats and Democratic Socialists control of Congress and the Supreme Court, and affordability, justice, equality, and opportunity become a distant memory — or a pipe dream — for…
University of Reading Professor Explains How Britons will Have to Do Without when Renewable Energy is Unavailable – Unless you are Rich
“… Up to now, the solution has been to build more storage or curtail generation. Both approaches can work, but both can also be expensive. …”
Climate Alliance featured “affordability” law is anti-affordability
The Climate Alliance coalition of Democrat Governors recently featured a new Illinois “affordability” law which is actually the opposite. This is a good example of the Alliance’s anti-affordability policies.
Green Energy Debacle: German Expert Professor Fritz Vahrenholt Warns of Severe Economic and Social Consequences
Vahrenholt warns of deindustrialization and a potential destabilizing loss of competitiveness. High energy costs and policy-driven phase-outs of reliable baseload power (such as nuclear and coal) are pricing German industry…
Energy Affordability: An IQ Test For New Yorkers That They Will Very Likely Fail
Do New Yorkers have sufficient IQ to figure out that they are getting scammed with this “energy affordability” mantra from Governor Hochul. I guess we will find out in the…
Politicians organize to drive up the cost of electricity
What is deeply ironic is that the Democrats are widely running on a platform of affordable electricity which is often simply termed “affordability.” The reality is that the standard steps…
100% of Green Climate Fund “adaptation” projects are not about adaptation
If the countries donating to the GCF think they are contributing to climate change adaptation, they should think again. It is just ordinary foreign aid which they would be better…
Brussels is Building a Climate Protection Racket in the Name of ‘Climate Insurance’
The storms will keep coming, as they always have. The question Brussels keeps avoiding is whether prices, engineering and private contracts should go on allocating that risk, or whether Europe…
Natural Gas Is Cheap – Why Is Your Bill So High?
Asked whether most people she knows understand their gas bill and why it may soon go up again, she replied: “I was a schoolteacher. So, of course I know how…
Acadia Center’s RGGI Fact Sheet Cannot Hide the Problems
“keep championing the program and keep tightening the cap” is not the reassuring conclusion Acadia presents it as.
RGGI Auction Clearing Price Results
Prior to the auction I said I would not be surprised it the price exceeded $35 a ton. I noted that if it did it would be real-time confirmation that…
The Progress(ives) War on Reliable and Affordable Electricity
Progress and Progress(ive)…. two words with somewhat similar spelling but with entirely different meanings. I asked Grok to help identify the distinctions. Progress… a forward movement, advancement, or improvement over…
Taxpayer Subsidies for Chinese Batteries? Just Say No!
“American taxpayers should not finance the expansion of Chinese-controlled battery companies inside the United States.”
Reality Check for PA’s Failed Green-Energy Mandates
Each month, Pennsylvania’s 6 million electricity customers—all facing rising bills—are charged for services of questionable value without knowing how much they are paying and, for most, that the charge even exists.
RGGI Update and the Auction Clearing Price Question
the mechanism they cite as evidence that consumer costs will be manageable — can no longer do the job they were designed to do.
Federal Oil and Gas Well Bonding: Undoing Biden
Imposing high bonding requirements across the board does little to protect taxpayers or the environment and ties up capital in unproductive ways. In fact, as some states have ratcheted up…
Bombshell Report Claims Miliband’s Clean Power Plan Will Cost £320 Billion
I find it astonishing that anybody is even thinking of wasting £320 billion, in order to reduce UK emissions by less than 4%.