Michael Shanks, the Energy Minister, told the House of Lords Environment Committee that the next auction was being put on hold so that the CfD programme could be reformed.
Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
Poster Child for Green Energy Becomes Buyer of Emergency Power
The state that spent three decades celebrating wind turbines now pays a premium for the one quality they cannot offer – on-demand dispatchability.
Gone With the Wind. German Power Goes From €13 to €315 a Megawatt-Hour in Four Days
German power averaged €13 a megawatt-hour on Sunday, October 25, when renewables briefly supplied more than the country used and Fraunhofer’s Energy-Charts posted a record. Four days later the wind…
NESO Winter Outlook
They claim they have a safety margin of 5.9 GW, but this all but disappears when wind power is taken out.
‘Green’ Energy Tradeoffs
Forcing a rapid fossil phase-out before we have engineered substitutes doesn’t eliminate these processes, it simply offshores them to countries with weaker labour, environmental and emissions standards.
How Green Billionaires Convinced the World to Build Thousands of Useless Windmills: Final Extract From Chris Morrison’s New Book on the Invented ‘Climate Crisis’
The British consumer has been forced over the last two decades to pay a staggering £274 billion (at 2025 prices) to support electricity generated from renewable sources.
On El Hierro Island, At Least They Kept The Diesel Backup
You can buy more and more of these things, but they just produce more and more electricity that you don’t need (and must discard) on a breezy summer day, and…
Wind Turbines vs Nature: How Reckless Renewables Are Destroying the Environment
In August 2025, Steven Nowakowski took my husband, Bruce, and me on an incursion into a wind turbine installation on a ridge in Australia’s wild far north, to show us…
MISO Obliterates Solar, Storage, and Wind Capacity Values
For years, utility companies have pursued a reckless strategy of prematurely retiring their reliable, affordable coal plants while pretending that a combination of wind, solar, and storage could replace their…
Ideologues Try Their Hand At Ordering Up An Electrical Grid Powered Only By “Renewables”
…places like New York, California, Germany and the UK continue to plow forward as if wind/solar/storage electricity systems can work. It’s as if it’s not possible to learn from experience.
Google Knew? Google Management Finally Admits Renewables Don’t Work for Powering Data Centers
They knew a decade ago – “… Battery technology is not yet at the stage where it can fully absorb that firming need and requirement. …”
‘Natural Allies for a Clean Energy Future’ (trade group under fire)
Bill McKibben is desperate. Instead of accepting reality, he continues his magical thinking of wind and solar dominance. But as James Hansen, the father of the alarm, stated:
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. …”
Another Electricity Margin Notice
NESO issued yet another Electricity Margin Notice for yesterday evening’s peak period, with low winds and solar power dropping away:
Al Gore: “The day is coming when our [Renewable Energy] momentum will overtake the resistance. We’re getting very close now”
Al Gore still stuck in green conspiracy land.
Claim: Solar saved the day when Heatwaves Forced Shutdowns of European Nuclear Plants
Blaming government infrastructure failures on nuclear energy.
The “Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels” project has become a global program
It will certainly be worth watching as countries struggle to map their way to an impossible future. Mind you these are professional diplomats who know how to talk about doing…
Aussie Renewables Win Tax Concessions the Government Claims Other Businesses Don’t Need
Australia’s shock capital gains tax rises will apparently not negatively affect any part of the economy except renewables.
The Biggest Garbage Heaps in Human History
So much for the lies about clean, renewable, sustainable energy. Where will all the trash go?
Ellenbogen’s (New York) Data from the July 2026 Heat Wave
Ellenbogen connected the voltage collapse to a growing reliance on inverter-based resources — solar and batteries — that disconnect from the grid when voltage or frequency moves outside their operating…