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Renewables Rejected: More Countries Get Serious About Serious Power Generation
Countries serious about their economic prosperity are getting serious about serious power generation. Ontario, China and Japan have slashed subsidies and mandated targets for wind and solar; between them China and Japan are building hundreds of high-efficiency, low emissions coal-fired plant at home and even more across South-East Asia.
Germany’s transition to an all wind and sun powered future has descended into an economic debacle and, soon enough, it will be forced to retreat from the brink.
Australia’s new Federal Energy Minister, Angus Taylor is determined to slash subsidies to wind and solar, referring to them as “virtue signalling with other people’s money”. Ominous stuff for renewable energy rent seekers, Downunder.
It’s almost like there’s been a breakout of common sense!
Lawrence Solomon picks up the theme below.
Lawrence Solomon: Trudeau stands alone as Canada — and the world — abandons green energy
Business Financial Post
Lawrence Solomon
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Renewables and world energy supply
How much of the world’s energy is supplied by renewables? |
BP and the International Energy Agency (IEA) measure the contribution of renewables to the global energy mix in terms of primary energy consumed while the World Bank estimates it in terms of final energy consumed. All three give different results, with BP estimating a total renewables contribution of 9.5% in 2015 compared to IEA’s 13.7% and the World Bank’s 18.1%. The BP/IEA differences become larger when contributions are segregated by source (BP estimates almost three times as much energy from hydro as as IEA and IEA estimates four times as much energy from “other renewables” as BP). This post documents these discrepancies while making no attempt to say who is right and who is wrong – that would have to be the subject of another post. But it does raise the question of whether we really know how large a contribution renewables are making to the world’s energy mix.
Britain becalmed………
As received – see link:
Britain Becalmed: Turbines across the UK are at a STANDSTILL after wind ‘disappears’ for a week causing a two-year low in electricity production
A lack of wind in the UK for the last week has seen energy production from wind farms plummet to record lows. On Sunday, less than two per cent of the country’s electricity came from wind.
Australia’s Self-Inflicted Renewable Energy Crisis: 200,000 Families Can’t Afford Power
…and this when the Chinese have moved to contain their solar industry by removing subsidies & reining in expansion etc., See: Chinese Solar Stocks Plunge As Beijing Pulls The Plug. South China Morning Post, 4 June AND,,, Germany’s task force for phasing out coal was meant to launch this week, but yesterday the government quietly announced it is delaying the kick-off. It is the third time the coal exit commission’s launch has been delayed. The task force has become so controversial – even before it comes into existence – that the government can’t get it started. –Dave Keating, Forbes, 1 June 2018 Both these items from the excellent Global Warming Policy Forum’s newsletter.
Relying on subsidised, intermittent and unreliable wind and solar results in rocketing power prices. Rocketing power prices results in a cycle of grinding, daily misery for the poorest and most vulnerable.
More than 100,000 Australian families had their power cut off last year, and a further 100,000 are on payment plans with their power retailers – all thanks to Australia’s diabolical obsession with wind and solar power.
South Australia tops the list above, for one reason, and one reason only: its ludicrous attempt to run on sunshine and breezes.
Craig Kelly heads up the Monash Forum, a group of 30 Liberal and National MPs determined to arrest the disaster. Here’s Craig.
Energy policy as shameful as the Soviet’s
The Spectator Australia
Craig Kelly
21 May 2018
“I told myself it was beneath my dignity to arrest a man for pilfering firewood. But nothing ordered by the party is beneath the…
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Link received re. offshore wind……..
See:
http://www.youris.com/energy/energy-grid/offshore-wind-farms-too-much-energy-is-lost-in-cables.kl
An engineer’s comment:
There are significant costs associated with transmitting electricity over long distances which apply to both offshore and onshore sites. Power losses over long distances can be quite significant and most large scale interconnectors transmit DC (direct current) electricity – less power losses than using AC (alternating current/mains). However, expensive converters (rectifiers) are required to convert the DC back to AC – even more expense.
These costs (power loss, converters etc) are a consequence of this crazy policy of locating renewable generators in remote areas far from areas of demand. Such costs are seldom, if ever, considered in the devious comparisons (with fossil generation etc) made by renewable companies and their cheerleaders.
Re. Wind Energys Absurd website….link https://www.facebook.com/WindEnergysAbsurd/?hc_ref=ARTgD61fEypoRoQvJZ8ueLSZXkgGVWgbECtn8CE6ZRHeNJWSoOOMU7cF0ATffIM__20&fref=nf for excellent info.
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When we hear SNP politicians prattling on about the islands being given special consideration in respect of CfDs; when we hear Claire Perry rattling on about it too; when you read about one or other Shetland interconnector being almost a ‘done deal’, we get angry because we know from our colleagues how many Shetlanders do not want to find themselves in part of a giant wind farm.
This piece from Frank Hay of Sustainable Shetland gives the background – from the first weasel murmurings in 2008, through the disregard of thousands of Shetlanders who were against the proposal by the then Minister of Business, Energy and Tourism, Fergus Ewing.
And talking of Ewing, or Flip-Flop as we called him, we see that he’s been having a spat with Jeremy Paxman over fish farms.
Paxman said: ‘If the Scottish Government wants to b***** up the nation’s environment that is its affair. But spare us the blathering nonsense of a speak-your-weight machine nincompoop.’
Well said Jezza. The Scottish Government has no compunction about b****ing up the nation’s environment in any regard.
Note in the Shetland piece the involvement of Shetlands Island Council.
Developing Nations Need Coal
Common sense breaking out.USA are recognising that exporting clean coal technology is also a responsible way to help such countries…..
By Paul Homewood
Eureporter, a Brussels based European multimedia news platform, while claiming to be “independent”, is in reality a pretty tame, EU supporting website.
Which makes this report of theirs even more remarkable:
The UK recently made headlines by announcing that it had gone for three days without using coal, a new record. During the coal-free 76 hours, the majority of the UK’s electricity supply came from gas, followed by wind, nuclear, biomass and solar. While many commentators touted this, the longest period Britain has gone without coal since the Industrial Revolution, as an important step towards reducing global emissions, the story isn’t so simple.
While the UK has greatly increased its renewable capacity in recent years, the only way it was able to power the country without coal for a few days was by relying heavily on natural gas, which is very, very far from being a green…
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Inevitable Transition: End to Subsidies Spells Armageddon for Ageing Wind Turbines in Europe
With wind power subsidies drying up across Europe, the prospects for RE rent seekers look bleaker than ever.
It seems like only yesterday, that we were told that wind power was cheaper than coal, sustainable and would power us into the next millennium. Indeed, the transition was meant to be ‘inevitable’.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, those evil forces of physics and economics have combined to smack the dreamers with just a little reality.
Wind turbines don’t last the 25 years promised by promoters – their economic lifespan tops out at around 15 years. Which means that within a decade Europe will be covered in tens of thousands of 2-300 tonne hulks, quietly rusting and leaking a cocktail of toxic ooze into the landscape.
In the absence of subsidies, they will never be replaced and simply stand as highly visible monuments to the greatest example of collective stupidity since the pyramids…
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Wind Energy: Part-Time Power – Full-Time Failure: Brand New Turbines Falling Apart
Would be amusing – were it not so serious for negatively affected residents, the environment and economy of so many countries.
Wind power isn’t a serious energy source, it’s a serious joke. In the absence of massive subsidies, the wind industry wouldn’t exist. Battling to deliver part-time power, it’s been a full-time failure.
Self-combusting, throwing 10 tonne blades to the four winds and dropping their 300 tonne hulks earthwards is just what these things do.
But, then again, they were never designed to generate power; their principal purpose is to harvest subsidies. Which probably explains why brand-new turbines keep falling apart.
“Massive Damage”…Large-Scale Engineering Debacle Threatens As North Sea Wind Turbine Breaks Apart!
No Tricks Zone
Pierre Gosselin
27 April 2018
NDR German public television reported on the damaged Adwen M5000 turbine at the 60MW Alpha Ventus offshore North Sea wind farm off the northern coast of Germany.
Housing rips away, plunges into the sea
The report was broadcast on 26 April and shows a missing turbine generator unit housing…
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