“If wind, solar and storage can’t keep the beer cold in a small city like Broken Hill, how will it perform when called upon to power the rest of the…
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Why Are UK Electricity Prices So High?
The only thing that has changed since 2019 is the rapid decarbonisation of the grid.
Will wind and solar hammer hydro in Washington State?
There are lots of reasons to constrain the galloping growth of wind and solar. Issues like unreliability, excessive cost and environmental destruction. None of them is funny. But the idea…
Massive Electricity Price Rises Expected as National Grid Confirms Gas is the Only Back-Up for Intermittent Renewables
As always with green punch-down lunacy, the poorest in society will be the hardest hit. Many people will be priced out of basic necessities they have always taken for granted…
Why There Will Never Be A Zero Emissions Electricity System Powered Mainly By Wind And Sun
he reason is that the intermittency of wind and solar generators means that they require full back-up from some other source. But the back-up source will by hypothesis be woefully…
Why Are Renewable Equipment Companies Such Poor Investments?
This month, the RENIXX stood at 1,013 points, essentially zero value growth over the last 18 years. In comparison, the S&P 500 Index more than quadrupled over the same period.…
The Green New Deal could make electricity 28 times more expensive
Below I show how the Green New Deal can cause the average household electricity bill to go up a crushing $52,500. The reason is simple. Wind and solar require a…
BONNER COHEN: Inflation Reduction Act Is Taking America Down The Road To Ruin
Contrary to its label, the law had nothing to do with reducing inflation. In fact, it would soon drive-up prices for such essentials as food, electricity and transportation.
Tangled Comparisons: Renewables Versus Fossil Fuels
Wind or solar costs around five times more per megawatt hour compared to, for example, natural gas.
Mining the planet for renewable energy
Reliable energy, human rights, land impacts, air and water pollution, lost wildlife get ignored
Joe Biden’s Energy Policies Are Based on Fantasies and Fairy Tales
…Frankly, the policy decisions in the Biden White House are detrimental to the wellbeing of the United States citizens and economy.
The Politicized Texas Grid: Sheridan Calls for Transparency (and Mea Culpas)
It’s time for a candid conversation about the state’s energy policies—one that acknowledges the true costs and challenges of a blindly pro-renewables approach and seeks solutions that ensure the resilience…
Windless nights make net zero impossible
It is very simple. The cost of storing electricity is so huge it makes getting through a single windless night under a net zero wind, solar, and storage plan economically…
The Truth about Wind Power and the 2022 UK Gas Crisis
There is a pervasive belief among green policy adherents that wind power saved the UK hundreds of millions during the natural gas crisis brought on by the disruption of gas…
Industrial Wind Power: A Depleting Resource?
Getting wind projects built is getting a lot harder. The low-hanging fruit, the easier access places are gone.
Build It, And The Wind Won’t Come
Wednesday’s EIA report is a stark reminder that all of that generation capacity is subject to the vagaries of the wind.
Swedish Wind Farms Facing Bankruptcy
The total loss for the years 2017–2022 amounted to 13.5 billion Swedish krona [€1.2 billion], which meant a loss margin of 39 per cent,” they said about the sector.
Exploding Energy Prices in Costly California
Green energy policies are the primary cause for high and escalating California energy prices.
Time to Retire the Term “Renewable Energy” from Serious Discussions and Policy Directives: Part 3
“Renewable good, non-renewable bad” is far too simplistic and unfortunately influential
False Energy Transition: The View from Australia (Nick Cater, Menzies Research Centre)
In the current ‘transition’, the process is reversed unless we are prepared to countenance the mass use of nuclear technology.