*** Thanks to its Liberal Government and their fanatical pursuit of
subsidised wind power, Ontario faces a monumental social and economic crisis.
We have attempted to throw every sound and reasoned argument against
subsidised wind power, but the single most damaging feature of attempting to rely on the weather for power is the obscene cost.
*** In 2017, with examples like Germany, Ontario and South Australia on file, any political leader still pushing
subsidised wind power on his or her people is either a certifiable lunatic or is in on it.
Right now ever increasing
subsidised wind and solar connected to the grid is making grids uneconomic.
The cost of
subsidised wind power is staggering, the effects on the grid chaotic.
Subsidising power sources that can be profitably delivered, for a fraction of the cost of
subsidised wind power, makes absolutely no sense.
For the EU, their heavily
subsidised wind and solar power will always deliver intermittent and erratic supply at great cost.
It's clear that some people are getting extremely rich from the boom in
subsidised wind power.
If the true and staggering cost of
subsidised wind and solar power were public knowledge, there would be public outrage.
How they got that way is no mystery to STT followers: Guilty:
Subsidised Wind & Solar Drive Australia's Rocketing Retail Power Prices In fact, the culprits are so easy to identify -LSB-...]
The lion's share of new capacity additions in IEA countries during the past decade has been in natural gas - fired generation and in
subsidised wind energy.
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We subsidise wind to make coal uneconomic so now we are proposing to subsidise coal to keep the lights on.
«vowed to continue his campaign against «the bad economics» of heavily
subsidising wind energy developments, when there were «far cheaper ways to reduce carbon emissions»»
However, picking winners (like passing favourable legislating and
subsidising wind and solar in production for decades to multiples of their cost) distorts markets.
Tim Ross, Senior Political Correspondent — The Telegraph — July 4, 2015 Customers face paying # 1.5 billion more through their bills to
subsidise wind farms, solar panels and biomas plants The cost of subsidising new wind farms is spiralling out of control, government sources have privately warned.
Not exact matches
The party promises a «significant expansion in new gas» including support for fracking, rules out a target for carbon free power and pledges to «halt the spread of
subsidised onshore
wind farms».
Since 1991, when the government started to
subsidise alternatives to fossil fuel, nearly two dozen
wind farms have been opened in Britain.
Thankfully the shale boom stifled such US fuel poverty that is seen throughout Europe and now Australia thanks to «unreliable» energy —
wind and solar —
subsidised at 110 — 400 % in order to compete with hydrocarbon based fuels.
Those bright young things at the various banks who thought it a good idea to cash in on «
subsidised «(ie stolen) money and provided finance for
wind farms deserve our contempt and then total disgust at suggesting they now be «grandfathered» for their greed, ignorance and negligence (failing to do their due diligence on effectiveness of
wind farms).
Moreover, prior to the intervention of
subsidised and chaotic
wind power, South Australians also enjoyed power delivered, almost without fail, save localised blackouts caused by lightning strikes and fallen lines.
Since we began in December 2012, we have added to our concerns the economic and social harm caused by rocketing power prices and unreliable power supplies, the product of heavily
subsidised and intermittent
wind power: the results that have played out in Australia's
wind power capital, South Australia, will cripple that State at an economic and social level for decades to come.
Australia's power pricing and supply calamity has a single, proximate cause: massively
subsidised, intermittent, unreliable
wind and solar power.
Consider just one example: the hundreds of thousands of rare birds and endangered bats slaughtered in the US every year by the
wind farms that Hillary Clinton applauds (and will no doubt go on
subsidising) and that Donald Trump loathes (and will no doubt starve of subsidies and cause to become as extinct as the Dodo).
The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly
wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to
subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent
wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.
How is
wind energy being
subsidised if people are paying more for it?
No one is going to come and build a new gas generator whilst
wind is so heavily
subsidised.
When you point out these facts to a renewable energy detractor he / she is likely to respond with «but
wind power is
subsidised».
The prime minister called for an end to onshore
wind subsidies, saying that Britain does not need any more
subsidised turbines.
A new Conservative government would not
subsidise onshore
wind in the future.
Farming subsidies are continually under threat, but when the federal government started
subsidising ethanol production and
wind power, farmers realised that renewable energy offers new streams of revenue.
Wrecking a power market and a power grid is a piece of cake: just add massively
subsidised, unreliable and intermittent
wind and solar.
I have income indirectly from unsubsidised coal, and have refused income from
subsidised solar and
wind power» (Emphasis added).
You can wreck a first world economy in a heartbeat by relying on heavily
subsidised and chaotically delivered
wind and solar power.
Good old gav and Lake George; I'll tell you the real mystery and its not the fluctuating water in Lake George; the real mystery is how supposedly sensible people gave Australian taxpayer's money to
subsidise Capital
Wind Farm around Lake George; here is its output:
The one exception to this is the pair of tenders for two off - shore
wind plants which are to be supported at
subsidised prices.
Stop us if you've heard this one before: massively
subsidised, unreliable and intermittent
wind power undercuts reliable coal - fired power plants; some of those plants close; power prices rocket; and grid managers suffer conniptions as they -LSB-...]
The study has used data on the monthly output of
wind farms in the UK and Denmark reported under regulatory arrangements and schemes for
subsidising renewable energy.
Can't you get it
subsidised by Big Oil, or Big
Wind or Michael Mann or something?
South Australia officially «the highest» with the highest penetration of highly
subsidised unreliables —
wind, solar....
To illustrate that last point, in a decade of support for onshore
wind (2002 - 2013) the UK added just 7.7 GW of
wind capacity, which at 25 % capacity factor offers just 1.9 GW of intermittent supply, and was
subsidised to the tune of # 3.4 billion over that period — and will continue to be
subsidised.
The country expects to use 10 % less electricity within a decade; all power stations are to be modernised; there's # 30bn for more renewables; railways will be further
subsidised to lure people out of their cars and away from aeroplanes; plans for more
wind turbines, photovoltaic electricity and biofuels will all be fast - forwarded; there is # 1,500 m to reduce CO2 in existing buildings; and the solar market is growing by 40 % a year.
The
wind turbine symbol of all that is good, renewable, green and politically correct is in reality an environmental holocaust for countries, such as China, that manufacture
wind turbine parts, a
subsidised failure at reliable electricity generation globally, they blight the lives of people forced to live within their shadow and they kill birds in huge numbers.