“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 rent-seeker, a political crony, like Sunnova’s John Berger, benefitting at the expense of just about everyone else.”
MasterResource has chronicled the rise and fall of major U.S. solar firms this year. The rooftop solar business is in shambles, with leaders such as Sunnova becoming worthless and defaulting on their long-term projects. And more recently, utility-scale solar developers are in trouble despite the last-minute deal to continue major tax subsidies until next year.
Add this to the list. As reported in Solar Power World, (November 7, 2025):
… Continue ReadingNational solar developer Pine Gate Renewables is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and selling its solar and energy storage project portfolio and independent power producer business.
“The fact that Roger Hallam wants to use coercive government to impose his ‘solutions’ on others is a bulls-eye refutation that he is more of a megalomaniac than a clear-eyed scholar. His fringe views should be rejected and his proclivity for violence condemned.”
Roger Hallam, cofounder of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, as well as a jailbird from his disruptive climate protests, is ready to throw in the towel on Net Zero. Regarding UK climate politics, he posted:
… Continue ReadingIf there is one article to read to understand why the present economic and political arrangements are going to collapse then this is it. There are only two alternatives:
1. The Labour government keeps with the net zero target for 2030, bills rise, Reform gets in and ensures the target is trashed.
“When clean alternatives become cheaper, cleaner, more reliable, and more secure, fossil fuel demand collapses – inevitably.” – Lisa Sachs, below
We are back to the 1970s where magical thinking about ‘negawatts’ and the impending competitiveness of solar and wind as grid electricity was the order of the day. Think Jimmy Carter. The U.S. Department of Energy. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Even Synthetic Fuels.
Lisa Sachs of Columbia University, daughter of Jeffrey Sachs, recently posted this as if failed COP30 did not matter. Is she classically ‘in denial’?
The Real Way We Phase Out Fossil Fuels … And It’s Not Through Pledges.
There’s frustration that COP30 didn’t deliver a stronger “phaseout” statement. I understand it, but we’re focused on the wrong lever. Fossil fuels don’t disappear because negotiators agree to it.…