The Orr, Rolling, and Lewis study documents the staggering costs for New England residents’ decarbonization plans. This joins a two-year study by ISO-NE estimating the need for 97 GW of…
Category: Climate Economics
ESG ‘vibe’ check: ‘Stock market investors are pulling a record amount of cash out of climate funds’ – ‘The main driver of the exodus is bad vibes’
Stock market investors are pulling a record amount of cash out of climate funds, even though many have not underperformed.
Subsidies Galore!
Imagine what society would look like if we stopped subsidising incompetent and expensive forms of energy and their parasitic cheerleaders. Bills would be lower, taxes could be lower and more…
Nobody Wants To Build Wind Farms In The North Sea
If wind power was so cheap, you would think they would be queuing up to build them:
Why Are UK Electricity Prices So High?
The only thing that has changed since 2019 is the rapid decarbonisation of the grid.
2025 Will Bring More Energy Pain For Germans As CO2 Tax Set To Rise Again!
Germany’s CO2 tax is set to increase from the current 45 euros a tonne to 55 euros at the turn of 2025…
California Dreamin’: Newsom’s Energy Fiasco
For those who value reliable energy, affordable living, and economic opportunity, California’s trajectory under Governor Newsom is a sobering reminder of what happens when politics takes precedence over pragmatism. Other…
The Home-Based Battery Storage Fantasy
Ignoring physical and economic realities may be fashionable, but reality always wins in the long run. The electric grid and its components form a complex system which most of us…
COP 29: The big UN money grab
They are pushing for something they call the “new collective quantified goal” at COP 29 in Baku. This mainly means a fortune in climate redistribution from the developed to the…
Ford to cut 800 UK jobs as electric car sales flag
As was obvious from the beginning, there never was enough demand for EVs for the mandated targets to be achieved. Manufacturers have been forced into offering unaffordable discounts for EVs,…
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative is Back, Prepare to Pay
Grapevines sequester carbon dioxide so Virginia’s climate alarmism activists are pulling corks without guilt today, after learning that a Virginia circuit court judge will order Virginia to rejoin the Regional…
How EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms Expose FALSE Cheap Green Energy Claims
If Renewables are the cheapest form of energy, why does the EU need a carbon border tax to protect EU based industries?
California Keeps Driving Up Gas Prices With ‘Layers And Layers’ Of Green Rules And Regs
“There are two reasons that gas is more expensive in California, and neither of them have to do with price gouging. The first reason, which we’re all very familiar with,…
Energy Justice in Africa? Energy Exceptionalism Please
The ideological environmental movement imposes the views of mostly wealthy, comfortable Americans and Europeans on mostly poor, desperate Africans, Asians and Latin Americans. It violates these people’s most basic human…
Death Cult Degrowthers Want to Put Lipstick on a Pig
Premium Content https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/20/degrowth-image-problem-solve-planet-climate Larry Elliott over at The Guardian is out here peddling what can only be described as degrowth with a smiley face—like trying to market tofu as the…
Green Blob-Funded Report Calls for Massive Frequent Flyer Levies That Would Devastate International Air Travel
A radical new plan to reduce international air travel from Europe to minimal levels over the next few years has been proposed by a group of Net Zero fanatics led by the…
“Green” Energy: It’s Just a Bribe
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it…
Green New Deal Accelerates Germany’s Economic Decline…Growth Forecast Revised Downward
Germany’s economic situation has deteriorated drastically this year. Instead of the expected growth, Economics Minister Robert Habeck is now forecasting a decline in economic output. Originally a plus of 0.3…
Western Households Sacrificed While Asians Benefit From Coal Splurge
It’s time to stop making Western taxpayers sacrificial lambs at the altar of climate politics while countries like India and China burn huge amounts of fossil fuels to the benefit…
Buy Woke, Go Broke: The Failure of ESG Investing
ESG investment momentum has slowed on both sides of the Atlantic since 2022. In 2022, for the first time in more than a decade, investors pulled more money from funds…
Why Are Well-Off EV Owners Charged Half as Much as Poor Pensioners for Off-Peak Electricity?
In any case, here is an even greater mystery: why are people who are sat shivering at home in poorly insulated, under-heated social housing paying about twice as much per…
Floating Wind Farm Lost £30m Last Year
Kincardine produced 144 GWh last year, so the total cost equates to £562/MWh. They have a PPA in place which generated £13.3m at £92/MWh. On top of that ROC subsidies…
ONS Reveals the Pitiful Number of New Green Jobs Being Created in the U.K. Economy
As we can see, the ONS survey is full of these make-work schemes providing jobs that can only exist by rigging free markets and providing eye-watering subsidies from consumers and…
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