“Subsidies like the DOE’s guarantees can incentivize firms to prioritize short-term gains over long-term compliance. Sunnova’s aggressive sales tactics, which targeted vulnerable consumers, were enabled by its belief that federal backing insulated it from accountability.” (Issac Lane, below)

MasterResource has chronicled the rise and fall of the large, government-enabled rooftop solar company, Sunnova Energy International, Inc. Led by the toothy Enron-ex John Berger (who made millions of dollars at the expense of just about everyone else, including taxpayers), Sunnova is yet another case study of business failure under political capitalism (versus free-market capitalism).

Previous posts have been:

• Solar Bust: PosiGen Joins SunPower, Sunnova, Mosaic Solar, September 8, 2025
• Sunnova’s Enronish Ending, July 16, 2025
• Sunnova Declares Bankruptcy June 10, 2025
• Sunnova EVP’s Exit: Self-adulation Within a Taxpayer Bubble June 4, 2025
• Sunnova Hype pre-Bankruptcy May 8, 2025
• Sunnova’s Net Zero for Stockholders (last ESG report of a ‘second-hander’ company) May 7, 2025
• John Berger: “Lifetime Achievement Award” for Sustainable Energy Future April 1, 2025
• Sunnova Going Solyndra?

“Someone is wrong in this clash of climate views. And it is far less Bari Weiss than it is Emily Atkin, a cultist figure (“when I take mushrooms, the last things I want to do is think about climate change“) in the fire of climate exaggeration and despair.”

“At The Free Press, Weiss consistently rebrands tired fossil fuel talking points as courageous, rebellious dissent,” states Emily Atkin at her website HEATED. But reviewing her examples, it is Atkin and not Bari Weiss who needs to rethink climate alarmism and forced energy transformation. The Climate Industrial Complex is nothing to be supported, much less proud of, by even the Progressive Left.

Here are 11 articles that Atkin does not like (reproduced verbatim). But each one has elements of truth to knock down the narrative that HEATED so vehemently wants to prop up.…

“The siren song of inexpensive nuclear power continues into its seventh decade. Taxpayer and ratepayers beware.”

Commercial nuclear power has turned into the welfare energy de jure. It is politically correct despite many decades of failure to compete against other forms of thermal energy. Uranium might be the ultimate energy density-wise, but nuclear fission (and more so nuclear fusion) is the most complicated, expensive, fraught way to boil water.

Commercial nuclear power was government-created in the 1950s and remains government dependent today. (Stay tuned: my primer on the history of this energy source is forthcoming. [1]). Regarding the present, consider this example from Jamie Smyth, editor of US Energy, who wrote:

Nuclear technology company Oklo has no revenues, no licence to operate reactors and no binding contracts to supply power.

“… far too many climate scientists have tilted toward or surrendered to exaggeration and hyperbole, making false predictions along the way. Little wonder why the general public has climate fatigue.”

Bill Gates has joined the reset of the climate agenda heading into COP30, scheduled to begin next week in Belém, Brazil. Gates will not be there; neither will Trump nor anyone from the federal government in their official capacity.

Instead of alarmism, immediate relief from extreme weather and adaptation are the order of the day (see here). COP activists might not realize it yet, but the multi-decade push for mitigation has peaked. Fossil fuels won despite the best (worst?) efforts of governments around the world to prop up inferior energies, the dilute, intermittent, fragile kind.

What is a climate alarmist to do?…