“The LCOE narrative has just collided with reality. If ‘cheap’ solar and wind really were enough, the energy transition would largely run on autopilot. Emissions would fall. Subsidies wouldn’t be…
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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…
RFK Jr. probes health dangers of offshore wind turbines
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate wind projects’ effects on the health and safety of…
UK Exporting Gas Power To Windless Europe
…yesterday we were exporting our gas power to Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands, because of the same shortage of wind power we were experiencing. (Gas and biomass power are the…
Japan’s Green Energy Failures Serve as a Warning to the US: Don’t Fall for the Climate Agenda
Japan’s offshore wind setback is more than a domestic issue. It is a global reminder of the dangers of ignoring full costs and clinging to illusions. Ambitious targets and political…
Which Are The “Stranded Assets” Now?
The prediction that wind and solar assets will become “stranded” is fundamentally different, and fundamentally sounder, than the comparable prediction for fossil fuel assets. That is because wind and solar…
U.S. “renewables” mad scramble to build is on
It looks like the U.S. renewables industry is going to be scrambling financially. This is certain for the next twelve months and maybe long after that. Watching the mad scramble…
Concern Over Safety Of German Wind Turbines Heightens After 70-Meter Rotor Blade Snaps Off
A 70-metre-long rotor blade of a V150 wind turbine fell from a height of 123 meters at the Lübbenow wind farm in Germany, heightening concerns about the safety of wind…
CFACT report: Feds fail to “offset” wind turbine eagle kills
At a minimum, FWS should issue no new wind power eagle-kill permits until the glaring issues uncovered in this study are resolved. Accurate electrocution death rates must be determined. Given…
Energy Investment Out of Balance… And It Could Cost Us All
Prioritizing these low-return investments while starving high-EROI energy sources will only drive costs higher for taxpayers, slow economic growth, and compromise grid reliability. If we continue down this path, the…
Climate Change Weekly # 547 — Polar Ice Is Not Following the Climate Crisis Narrative
In late April and early May, mainstream media outlets ran dozens of stories discussing the findings of a recent study that showed Antarctica’s ice mass was growing. The outlets called…
‘Net Zero’ Is Collapsing in U.S. States
From New York to California, state renewable electrical power dreams are collapsing. Power demands soar, while the federal government cuts funding and support for wind, solar, and grid batteries. Renewables…
Reliance on ‘Renewables’ Makes Widespread Blackout Nightmare More Likely
Will the disaster of April 28 make European leaders think twice about abandoning our most reliable energy sources? Hardly. Following the devastating blackout, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said his government would…
Blackouts Surge: How Fragile Grids Threaten Global Energy Security
We need to be honest with ourselves… wind and solar alone can’t provide energy security. Not today. Maybe not ever without massive redesigns. We have leaned too hard on brittle…
NERC’s latest reliability assessment is unreliable
If NERC is assuming major solar and wind output to meet peak need, their findings are ridiculously unreliable. The combination of using wind and solar with merely average conditions makes…
A New IEA Report and the Iberian Blackout End Dreams of an ‘Energy Transition’
What it does mean is that whatever one believes about the science of the climate, the fact is that mandates and subsidies can’t change the physics of energy systems. Systems…
New Texas Law to Force Renewables to Be Dispatchable
Sounds like Texas is getting fed up with its electricity system being increasingly put at risk by wind and solar power. After years of papering over the cracks with half…
Orsted Cancels Hornsea 4 Wind Farm – and Kills Miliband’s ‘Clean Power 2030’ Agenda Dead
If we cannot rely upon either the capacity being delivered nor the price being honoured then the whole Allocation Round process has become a farce. It is time for Miliband…
Wind power’s eagle-kill permits are a deadly failure, so permitting must stop
About 15 years ago, the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the Golden Eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality. But there was a…