Policymakers would do well to heed energy experts like Schernikau and Stein. Chasing luxury beliefs do not cost well-heeled climate bureaucrats and renewables ideologues much, but the burdens of irrational…
Category: Energy
Even “Progressives” Are Now Allowed To Notice That New York’s Climate Plans Are Crumbling
Well, guys, welcome to the right side of history. Now that we have this crack in the dyke of left-wing unanimity for strict net zero mandates, perhaps the flood will…
BP Abandon Teesside Hydrogen Plant
It cannot work without massive subsidies and I suspect BP have seen the writing on the wall. With interest in Net Zero dwindling and the public beginning to wake up…
Solar Bankruptcy: Pine Gate Renewables (boom to bust continues)
“What about the triple-digit number of creditors who banked on a loser? What about taxpayers who funded around 30 percent of the solar investment? … Ben Catt is just another…
Why is My Energy Bill Even Higher?
It is encouraging that opposition parties have started to challenge the Net Zero orthodoxy. The Green Blob should be left in no doubt that the trolley bus has been diverted…
Energy Affordability Has Become the Kitchen-Table Issue of the 2020s
Energy production should be a kitchen-table issue, but with a longer lead time than the current election cycle. We should be able to pay less to get more. The Trump…
Oakland’s Reckless Climate Crusade against Coal Exports
A judge just cancelled an enormous judgement against the City of Oakland in California – but the reprieve may be temporary.
Aussie AEMO Pushes the Grid Stability Panic Button
“… Major uncertainties include … exit or connection of large loads, dependability of new technologies … regular or seasonal decommitment of coal units … changes to exit timing or unexpected…
The Severe Ecological Ramifications of Offshore Windfarms in the Atlantic
They presume that a system as complex as the Atlantic continental shelf will behave according to their intentions rather than according to its physics.
Objection Filed Against Con Edison Request for Rate Increase
Still, we may get at least some of the vast collection of New York energy bureaucrats to look critically at one corner of this ridiculous situation. Maybe.
How to Cut the Electricity Price in Australia
With the greater understanding that should come from using a day-ahead system, it should be possible to improve the long-term planning (“Capacity Market”). In future, will a nuclear plant be…
IEA Publishes Climate Era’s Obituary
The end is nigh – not for the world, but for the climate industrial complex. It has been a decline brought about mainly by the sheer reality of energy economics…
Rising Electricity Prices? Blame Green Energy Policies, Not President Trump
Democrats should stop blaming Republicans for soaring energy prices in blue states that their own green energy policies cause. If they want prices to reverse course, then they should use…
How Much Asbestos Do Wind Turbines Contain?
Following discovery of asbestos lift brake pads in Chinese manufactured Aussie turbines, turbine operators are conducting a frantic audit.
Dissecting Scotland’s economy-wrecking Net Zero plans
Future historians will find it hard to believe that Scotland and so many other countries were taken in on such an overarching, society-upending scale by such an obvious Globalist deception.
UK Climate Change Minister Claims COP30 Victory
“… the delayers and defeatists are losing the climate fight …”
Aussie Energy Regulator Demands 5 YEARS Coal Plant Closure Notice
The long notice period required to address a “fundamental mismatch” in pace of the energy transition.
The Problem With Wind Energy in the Northwest
With rapidly increasing demand for electricity, expected to roughly double by mid-century (see NW Power Council estimate below), without new generation capacity, there is a near certainty of blackouts, particularly…
Thanksgiving Prices Fall Because the Green Agenda Lost
According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, the cost of a classic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people dropped about 5% this year, landing at $55.18. After years of grocery-store sticker…