“Unlike dispatchable fossil-fuel or nuclear generation, solar and wind power output varies unpredictably with weather conditions, leading to mismatches between supply and demand.” — Sargentis et al., 2026
Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
Germany’s Die Welt: “Too Much Is Too Much” … Green Energies Are Cannabalizing Each Other!
Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt (paid article) on a phenomenon: more and more plants are being put into operation, but the yield does not increase to the same extent.
New York State Renewable Permitting Scandal
I hope that the power of social media exemplified by Alexandra Fasulo can bring this to the attention of enough New Yorkers that the policies can be changed to protect…
Intellectual Yet Idiot: Ed Miliband and the Economic Illiteracy Driving Britain’s Energy Crisis
Britain cannot afford another decade of IYI governance. Keeping the lights on, quite literally, depend on it.
After Solar and Wind Farms Suddenly Sprang Up, Citizens and Local Governments Sprang Into Action
Now, private citizens and public officials are pumping the brakes, trying to slow a movement in which momentum exceeded readiness, politics outweighed planning, and taxpayers were left holding the bag…
The Case Against Industrial-Scale Solar in the UK
Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of…
Why electricity costs more than we think…and why, in Germany, solar is about 10x more expensive than coal
What does it actually cost to keep the lights on, reliably, 24/7/365 year after year?
Wind Energy Churns up Grassroots blowback in Eastern Oklahoma
In Episode 22 of @cfact‘s Conservation Country video series, host @GabriellaHoffman travels to Eastern Oklahoma to learn about the region’s fight against wind industrialization. Tune in to learn more!
Another PTC/ITC Extension for Wind/Solar? Just Say NO
“The continued reliance on ‘clean’ energy tax credits is a political crutch…. Those who have introduced this legislation … should be working to phase out these subsidies more quickly, not…
Grid Balancing Costs Set to Rise To £8 Billion By 2030
Nobody in their right mind would have designed such a system. Unfortunately by the time of the next election, most of the damage will be irreversible.
Claim: Japan’s Coal and Nuclear Push Risks Displacing Renewable Energy
“… As coal and nuclear generation expand … they may displace domestic renewable energy …”
Oversupply Of Volatile Solar Energy Leads To Record NEGATIVE Prices!
“The record negative prices are the market’s loudest warning signal that we have an oversupply of unstable generation, but a dramatic lack of flexibility and storage capacity,” Klimanachrichten summarizes.
Why the UK and EU Keep Doubling Down on Net Zero Dogma in the Face of Spiralling Economic Dysfunction
Freely chosen economic illiteracy, like other ideological afflictions, appears immune to correction by experience. The hangman’s noose may concentrate some minds, but in Westminster and Brussels, the noose is worn…
Electrify Everything Policies in the Aussie State of Victoria are Breaking the Grid
Someone forgot to build the grid capacity to support the gas replacement policy.
Monbiot: Green Energy Advocates are Now Pragmatic Patriots Because of Iran and Trump
“Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution?”
Cracks Appear in Climate Consensus as Germany’s Energy Minister Admits Renewable Energy is Ruining the Country
Fifteen years after Merkel’s nuclear panic and decades after the Greens first infiltrated the corridors of power, reality is reasserting itself with the cold logic of physics and markets. The…
Wyoming wind farms are ecological death traps for eagles
Wind power does more than kill the eagles that happen by; it repeatedly draws them in then kills them.
The Iran War Reveals Who Is Living In A Fantasy World
Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose…