Germany’s massive, subsidized expansion of electricity generation from renewable sources has squeezed out conventional generation units out of the market. Two experts warn of growing grid instability.
Category: Energy Fail
Europe’s Power Crisis Overtaking Gas Crisis
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood This latest analysis from Timera dovetails with my piece on the broken electricity market yesterday: Europe’s power crisis overtaking…
German Electricity Prices Spiraling Out Of Control…Tripling Since 2000… Blackouts, Unrest Loom
What a mess; they’ve reached 41 cents a kilowatt-hour and it’s about to get much worse – especially for the people who can least afford it.
The Texas Offshore Wind Fable
Guest “Not even wrong!” by David Middleton Offshore wind farm proposed for Gulf of Mexico near Galveston could power 2.3 million homesTwo proposed wind farms off the Texas and Louisiana…
British Green Electricity Crisis – Britain Paid £9.72 / KWh to Keep the Lights On
Imagine receiving a quarterly household electricity bill of £10,000 – because this is the kind of money Britain’s Electricity System Operator paid last Wednesday, to prevent blackouts during the heatwave.
Hey Joe! How’s That “Incredible Transition” Going For Ya?
Guest “Incredible Transition” my @$$!” by David Middleton Does he even know what the initials EIA stand for? He wouldn’t sound nearly so moronic if he occasionally checked with the…
Dumb As It Gets: Germany Heads into Winter Refusing to Let Badly Needed Power Plants Operate
It’s about 5.6 million jobs affected by the lack of natural gas. It is not about taking shorter showers.
The Democrats’ Energy Disaster
So, why, if we’re on the precipice of this apocalypse, if saving the planet trumps every other concern, is President Biden begging everyone to drill?
‘Calif. Dilemma: Fight Climate Change and Keep on the Lights’ (energy reality at E&E)
“If the public sees this year after year — shortages and blackouts and curtailment — I think there will be a lot of setback for the long-term green energy plan…
South Africa: Warmism Creates Blackouts
Eskom’s promise to reduce coal-fired generation over the next 30 years threatens to drive South Africa’s 62 million people further into an abyss of rolling blackouts and attendant economic damage.
Biden’s climate policies realized: New York’s ‘Home Energy Crisis’ – ‘More than a million households are 60 days in arrears on their energy bills, with an avg. of $1,427.71 in debt, & shut-offs are increasing’
More than 471,629 disconnection notices were sent out in April 2022 for residential customers across New York State, with Orange and Rockland counties leading the way, with 79 shutoffs that…
North America May See Natural Gas Prices Follow Global Ones – A Frightening Taste of The Agony Developing Countries Are Facing
They can show up quietly and more deadly in the form of shuttered businesses, unliveable utility bills, and soaring inflation for anything that relies on natural gas as an input.
The INTENDED Consequences of Climate Policy: ‘Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S.’
From Climate Depot By Admin, May 9, 2022 4:27 PM https://archive.ph/2022.05.08-121147/https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/electricity-shortage-warnings-grow-across-u-s-11652002380#selection-103.0-120.0 By Katherine Blunt From California to Texas to Indiana, electric-grid operators are warning that power-generating capacity is struggling to keep up…
Canada: The Federal Climate Plan – Far Out of Touch with The World, With First Nations, with Its Regions, and The Feds Just Don’t Care
Our leadership has joined a cult and is not paying attention to energy reality, in part because our reliable hydrocarbon sector will bail it out regardless of what the federal…
Saving America from Planet-Threatening Fossil Fuels
Presidential candidate Joe Biden repeatedly promised to end fossil fuels in America. There’ll be “no more drilling, including offshore,” he said. “No ability for the oil industry to drill. No…
New York Climate Act: Cost Estimate Sleight of Hand
The Draft Scoping Plan was written to prove the desired conclusion that the benefits were greater than the costs. In order to make that case both benefits and cost estimates…
As Energy System Comes Apart, Germany Now Preparing Emergency Natural Gas Rationing Plans
“The government is having a contingency plan drawn up to determine which companies should first stop receiving gas when Russian natural gas fails to arrive,” reports Blackout News.de here. “A corresponding…
Another Grid Scale Battery Fire “Incident”
Given the rate just a handful of present day grid scale batteries seem to suffer meltdowns or spontaneously explode, imagine the fun we’ll all have in the future, when grid…
Pennsylvania Power Plant Closures Would Cause Real Harm for Illusory Environmental Gains
From the CO2 Coalition By Gordon Tomb – February 8, 2022 Visible from Western Pennsylvania’s Allegheny Mountain ridges are coal-fired power plants—and their plumes of water vapor—that have been integral…
National Grid scheme to ration households’ power use at peak times
From Friday up to 1.4m households will be paid if they cut their normal electricity consumption at certain two-hour periods during the day, as an experiment to see how households’…
EU Facing New Energy Crisis Next Year
Europeans will pay an additional 350 billion euros ($395 billion) in energy bills next year as global demand for fuel and power threatens to keep prices elevated, according to Greece’s…
Which Country Or U.S. State Will Be The First To Hit The Renewable Energy Wall?
From the MANHATTAN CONTRARIAN December 17, 2021/ Francis Menton In the fantasy of wealthy woke environmentalists, the world has recognized that it is on the brink of an existential climate crisis…
BBC: Young Renters Suffering Unaffordable Energy Bills
The BBC paints high energy bills as a renters rights issue, that landlords should be forced to improve insulation on rental houses. But the proposals will do nothing to help…
Complete Madness In The Biden Administration: Energy Policy
With Obama, at least he appeared to have some understanding that the whole idea of his policies of fossil fuel suppression was to force consumption down through the mechanism of…
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