“This is creating concrete risks for companies to go into insolvency as their significant stock will need to be devalued,” SolarPower Europe said.
Category: Intermittent Wind and Solar
G20: Coal Should be Phased Down “in line with national circumstances”
In response to UN calls for the urgent elimination of coal, the G20 has responded with a commitment to keep coal as long as needed, and to pursue nuclear energy…
Guardian: Offshore Wind Fail – The UK Government Must Make Cheap Renewables More Affordable
“The economics do not stand up” for investing in the cheapest form of energy?
Support For Offshore Wind Sinks as Costs Soar
Here’s hoping for a cascade of grief for offshore wind development. It serves no useful purpose, is environmentally destructive, and costs a growing fortune.
Net Zero Fail: UK Government to Forcibly Switch Your Appliances Off
Imagine needing government permission to turn up your winter heating when you catch Covid, or pleading with bureaucrats to allow you to heat more rooms in your house. But don’t…
Renewable Fail: East Coast Aussie States Are Failing or About to Fail Energy Reliability Standards
A just published Australian Energy Market Operator report highlights the urgent “opportunity” for the provision of reliable electricity to Australia’s East Coast grid.
The “Ocean State” or the “Windmill State”? A Resignation that Speaks Volumes
Rhode Island is supposed to be the Ocean State, not the Windmill State.”
The Wind Industry’s Ignored Consequences: Whales in Peril
it’s clear that the American people and our representatives cannot trust NOAA and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the two government agencies that, for years, have repeatedly betrayed…
American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy Says Heavy Industry Should get Intermittent
Their solution to the intermittency of renewables is for heavy industry to learn to live with it.
Wind Output Plaguing Texas (ERCOT weathers on)
Until sufficient utility-scale battery storage is available, which is unlikely anytime soon due to the cost of current technologies, the ERCOT power grid and all others will require substantial natural…
Offshore Wind Farms Altering Marine Ecosystems: “Sufficiently Potent to Redirect Existing Currents”
The wake effects are sufficiently potent to redirect the existing currents, and thus results in shifting mean temperatures and a changed salinity distribution in the wind farm areas.
Texans Asked to Cut Electricity Use, As Wind Power Drops Off
Fortunately Texas still has plenty of gas generation:
Voters Will Need to Decide If Our Energy System Remains Affordable and Reliable, Or Descends into Chaos
Don’t buy magic beans. And please, please don’t vote for anyone that doesn’t know the difference. No one has any idea how much is at stake.
Issues Integrating Renewables
From Florida to California distribution feeders are being overloaded due to home generation of solar energy
Green Tasmania, the “Battery of Australia”, Runs Out of Electricity
“… this is putting a handbrake on our economy.”
The Real-World Costs of Backing Up Weather-Dependent Electricity Generation with Battery Storage
But even these numbers wildly understate the real world costs of storage that would be needed.
Think Megawatt Hours of Gasoline
… we need to build generation capacity that is almost one and a half times our present generation to make the transition.
Alberta Suspends Approvals for Green Energy Projects, such as Wind or Solar Power
Rural municipalities cover roughly 85 per cent of Alberta’s land and their voices must be included in the approval process for all renewable energy projects.
Op-Ed: One Simple Energy Question Devastates ‘Net-Zero’ Pipe Dreams
Taking land for wind and solar can seriously impact the environment.
Cobalt Carnage, Child Labor and Ecological Destruction
They labor ten to twelve hours a day in sweltering heat and toxic mud, water and dust, in enormous pits hundreds of feet deep – hacking at rocky walls and…
Aussie NSW Farmers Call for a Ban on New Solar Projects
NSW Farmers, Australia’s largest farming organisation, is demanding a prepaid decommissioning fund for solar farms, to prevent farmers being left with the bill for decommissioning and disposal.
Offshore Wind has a Cost Crisis
Originally posted at CFACT By David Wojick The horrific term “cost crisis” is not from me. It comes down from on high, in this case the mega-conference: US Offshore Wind 2023.…
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