Ed. Note: This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. The complete Newsletter for this post can be found here.
Unreliables (General):
*** Big Batteries Bring Big Problems!
Alberta’s wind and solar output plunge to near zero…again
Wind Energy — Offshore:
*** The Offshore Wind Energy Scandal is Even Worse Than You Think
*** Shattered wind turbine closes Nantucket beaches feds suspend Vineyard Wind
*** Why Are Massive Amounts of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Being Ferried Out into the Ocean off the Eastern Seaboard?
Offshore Wind Turbines Wrecking Marine Radar Signals
The Titanic scale of floating wind turbines quantified
Wind Energy — Other:
*** Taking the Wind Out of Climate Change (referencing 60± studies)
*** Short video: The Most Confusing Part of the Power Grid
*** Nine July Days Clearly Demonstrate Industrial Wind Turbines Intermittent Uselessness
Turbines were Missing in Action for High Peak Demand Days
Green Hypocrisy
German wind power sector in crisis.…
“The Biden Administration’s offshore wind ambition, not only Vineyard Wind, is going the way of the EV debacle. It is time to end the charade, even before the Presidential election.”
All the current political news is keeping this week’s implosion of the fledgling U.S. offshore wind industry off the front pages. “Vineyard Wind shut down after turbine failure sends ‘sharp fiberglass shards’ onto Nantucket beaches,” reported CBS News out of Boston. The worst case event could spell the end of another Biden anti-economic, anti-ecology “climate” program, with only the 132 MW South Fork Wind project off the coast of Long Island under construction.
Vineyard Wind, a joint venture between Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, was at the 10-turbine, 136 MW mark of a planned 62 turbines totaling 806 MW. GE Wind (formerly Enron Wind), the blade-maker, is in trouble too.…
Continue Reading“Government increased the cost of Texas electricity by $20 Billion in 2023.”
On July 1, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announced that they “will seek to expand the [Texas Energy Fund] to $10 billion to build more new [generation] plants as soon as possible.” The Texas Legislature, with voter approval, created the Fund last year with initial funding of $5 billion.
Subsidizing multi-billion dollar generators and electric utilities using Texans’ money is nothing new in Texas. Figure 1 shows that in 2023 the U.S. government, Texas’ state government, and Texas local governments increased the cost of electricity in the Texas area served by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) by $19.9 billion, most of it by providing subsidies and benefits to generators and transmission companies. This represented 42.7% of the total cost of electricity to Texans in ERCOT.…
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