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…
Tag: wind power
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…
The Blade Stops Here: France Holds Wind Industry Accountable at Last
France’s court system has done what most governments have failed to do: impose real accountability on an industry that’s been operating with impunity. The Bernagues decision should serve as a…
Two new studies imply the Golden Eagle cannot survive more wind turbines
The threat to Golden Eagles from wind is potentially enormous. Wind power generating capacity today is about 160,000 MW. The queue of new wind interconnection applications is around an incredible…
Towns and States Don’t Want Green Energy
Trump Administration actions to scale back renewable energy capture headlines, but citizens are also pushing back. Efforts to deploy wind and solar systems face a rising tide of opposition in…
Lift the veil on wind power killing eagles
In addition to the allowable kill numbers the eagle death reports should be made public. People need to know that wind projects in their county or state are killing eagles,…
Save the Wild West from Wind Industrialization
Host @GabriellaHoffman returns to the Wild West to investigate 20+ proposed wind projects in southern Wyoming. Tune in to learn about the environmental trade offs to onshore wind and how…
Providing Trump facts he needs on wind and solar
CFACT will continue to provide the Trump Administration with the facts it needs to avoid the energy mistakes so many others have made.
Coalition to Burgum: “Stop offshore wind!”
President Trump released a moratorium on offshore wind upon taking office on January 20, that “temporarily prevents consideration of any area in the OCS for any new or renewed wind energy leasing…