University of Glasgow academic Onur Çelik has proposed huge space mirrors could allow solar panels to satisfy the evening electricity demand peak.
Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
The Cold Truth About Renewable Energy in the Pacific Northwest
The message of this information is clear. Renewables such as wind energy are generally not reliable sources of energy in our region during cold wave situations when demand is highest.
How did Alberta wind up facing blackouts in the extreme cold?
“… at this time of year, we don’t have any solar power … Over the last couple of days, the wind has dropped off dramatically. …”
British PM Nuclear Push: “Nuclear is the perfect antidote to the energy challenges facing Britain”
Following French moves to downgrade renewables, Britain now also seems to be jumping on board the nuclear bandwagon.
December 2023 UK CfD Subsidies
But because of subsidies, wind farms rake in the money whether the wind blows or not; their price is guaranteed. It is dispatchable generators, such as gas and nuclear, which…
Is France Quietly Ditching Renewable Energy Targets?
Greens are furious the wrong kind of zero carbon energy is being prioritised?
Lap Dance for Wind Turbines? British Green Energy Developers Accused of a New Low
“… The clean energy company strongly denies this allegation, saying that no such offer was ever made. …”
Claim: Electric Grids can Handle Double their Rated Capacity
“… In Texas, a study with EMPACT Engineering found that 94.5% of the region’s power lines could safely hold double the existing capacity. …”
A Cautionary Tale from Prince Edward Island
…they became a financial sinkhole and a symbol of unfulfilled promises.
Wind turbines kill too many birds and bats. How can we make them safer?
In fact, some experts predict that turbine collisions could drive certain bat species to extinction. “It’s the No. 1 threat facing our small microbats,” Bennett says.
Developers Cancel Huge Offshore Wind Contract In Latest Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda
Equinor and British Petroleum (BP), the firms working in a joint venture to construct the enormous Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farm, canceled a contract with New York state to…
Cheap Renewables? British OFGEN Issues 48 Hour Price Hike Warning
The British Government could bring rapid energy price relief by issuing permits to UK based fracking company Caudrilla. But this would undermine Net Zero policies.
Aussie Coal State Premier Promotes the End of Coal
Queensland’s long reigning premier Annastacia Palaszczuk may have cut and run in the face of negative polls and a looming election, but her successor’s plan to accelerate coal job losses…
Federal Judge Sides with Osage Nation, Orders Removal Of 84 Wind Turbines
The tribe’s fight against Rome-based Enel began in 2011 and is the longest-running legal battle over wind energy in American history.
ICEBREAKER Wind Dead: Great Lakes Alive
…now Icebreaker faces the somewhat predictable lack of financial and environmental viability, no matter which way you slice it.
Climate Advocacy: Incompetence Versus Intentional Fraud — Lazard Edition
The Lazard LCOE Reports are famous for their repeated conclusion that wind turbines and solar panels have become the cheapest sources for generation of electricity.
100-Year-Old Union-Backed Law Among Snags Derailing Biden’s Green Energy Agenda
The Jones Act requires that American-made and staffed ships carry wind turbine parts to offshore farm sites, according to the WSJ.
Has Australia’s Nuclear Debate Killed Renewable Energy Investment?
Expectations that the next Aussie administration will back nuclear over renewables appears to have wrecked attempts to attract private renewable investment.
The California Sun is Setting on Exorbitant Rooftop Solar Subsidies
Solar Net Energy Metering in California: From Rosy Inception to Rocky Realities
Energy Density and Micron
The development of Micron within the Climate Act framework will be a good test of pragmatic environmentalism.
Another Critical Thinker Reaches The Obvious Conclusion: Intermittent Renewables Can’t Work On Their Own
Most of the reviewed papers assumed that solar and wind will be always supplemented by some form of “firm generation capacity”, which is the obfuscated name of using fossil fuels…
Ellenbogen: New York State’s Energy Transition
Richard Ellenbogen recently gave an important presentation on New York State’s Energy Transition that details his concerns with the net -zero mandate of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). I…
NAS study raises concern over offshore wind harming endangered whales
The proper course of action is to put this research ahead of any more offshore wind construction, not after it.
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