Energy Secretary Chris Wright said of his visit to Ice Harbor: “Hydroelectric dams have provided affordable and reliable electricity to millions of American families and businesses for decades. Thanks to President…
Category: Hydropower
Have Renewables Overtaken Coal?
The trouble is that no reputable organisation classifies hydro in renewables.
Australia’s Big Battery Snowy 2 Pumped Hydro Scheme Suffers Another Cost Blowout
A billion here, a billion there, soon you’re talking about real money.
I was Wrong – Green Europe is Building at Least One US Scale AI
A 230MW AI campus to be powered by Norwegian Hydro has been announced – but competition for electricity and rising prices are already causing political unrest.
Saving the Grid, Not the Slogans: Trump Halts Dam Demolition
The Columbia River Basin remains a vital artery for America’s energy and agricultural future. To gamble that away on the basis of activist pressure and incomplete science would be not…
Political Turmoil in Norway Threatens Britain’s Green Energy Fantasy
The Norwegian ruling coalition government just collapsed due to public anger at energy exports to Britain driving up domestic Norwegian prices.
Alaska Energy Shenanigans: Eklutna Dam and the RPS (Part II: Political Highjack)
It is not too late to start the preemptive messaging to your representatives that an RPS is too risky for Alaskans. As the saying goes “follow the money.” As outlined herein, it’s…
Alaska Energy Shenanigans: Eklutna Dam and the RPS (Part I: Background)
The environmental stakeholders who have weaseled their way into the process are waging a full-on frontal assault against hydropower, aiming to convince people that it is not “green” and that…
Aussie Snowy 2.0 Pumped Hydro 0.8% Progress Since June
At this rate Snowy 2, the keystone of Australia’s renewable energy roadmap, will take over 40 years to complete.
Green Tasmania, the “Battery of Australia”, Runs Out of Electricity
“… this is putting a handbrake on our economy.”
“80% Renewables by 2030 – Its Bullsh*t”: Former Snowy 2 Pumped Hydro Boss Slams Aussie Green Energy Plans
“… you were being realistic and they didn’t want to hear it. …” – Aussie climate and energy minister Chris Bowen has been accused of pushing aside experts who criticise his…
Aussie SMH Gives Up on the Snowy River Green Energy Pumped Hydro Scheme
You know your green energy scheme is in trouble, when even the climate action cheerleaders at the Sydney Morning Herald are trashing your energy storage project as a “White Elephant”.
‘Electric Truck Hydropower’ – A Real Breakthrough or a New Sokal Hoax?
Is this real or did the Journal, Energy, get punked?
Norway’s Power Surplus Disappearing Rapidly
And when southern Norway is short of power, will the country carry on exporting electricity to the rest of Europe?
Storing Energy
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I’ve been reading some folks’ claims about how batteries are the key to a bright green renewable future. Of course, we wouldn’t need batteries if…
Dammed If They Do. British Columbia’s Site C Ironies.
Charles asked me to look at this WUWT reader Earthling2’s submission. Having done so, the saga is so loaded with ironies that this guest post resulted. Site C is a…
Claim: New Zealand Economy will Have to Restructure Around a Limited Renewable Energy Supply
According to climate researcher Jen Purdie, even New Zealand with its abundance of windy mountains, geothermal sources and vast hydropower lakes cannot provide enough renewable energy for people to live…
Aussie State Tasmania Declares itself 100% Renewable Energy
100% renewable, except when Tasmania’s politicians run down their hydro dams to critical low levels selling green electrons to the mainland, burn out the undersea inter-connector with excessive current, and…
Scientists ‘Tantalised’ by Draining Every Hydropower Dam in The US For Solar Panels
From Science Alert CARLY CASSELLA 31 AUG 2019 If all the hydro-power dams in the United States were removed and replaced with solar panels, it would take up a fraction…
Report: Green Energy Incentives are Failing to Keep the Lights On
Guest essay by Eric Worrall h/t JoNova – An Australian Government AEMO commissioned industry report has suggested that while government incentives make renewables preferable to coal, the new renewable capacity…
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