renewables

Wild west voltage spikes in South Australia and a billion watts of wasted solar

South Australia survived the big scary sunny day yesterday, but had to shut off solar power and throw all those sacred green electrons into a thousand open circuits.

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Joanne Nova

|2022-11-23T16:16:30-05:00November 18th, 2022|Comments Off

Reality bites Biden’s Gulf of Mexico wind dreams

"There are grave concerns about the serious harm that the proposed leases could have on the commercial and residential fishing industry, the maritime economy, the human environment, and Texas’ economic prosperity."

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Duggan Flanakin

|2022-11-15T11:31:21-05:00November 17th, 2022|Comments Off

German offshore wind is not an example to follow

The Biden administration is hot to trot to install giant, industrial-scale wind facilities along the U.S. East Coast.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2022-11-13T22:42:32-05:00November 15th, 2022|Comments Off

An ill wind blows through Colorado farm country

The spread of wind turbines on the gusty plains of northeastern Colorado has sparked a 21st century range war.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2022-11-04T11:56:14-04:00November 4th, 2022|Comments Off

Rural backlash against renewables with 67 rejections of solar over eleven months

BY ROBERT BRYCE: The punchline here is obvious: the hype about major expansions of renewable-energy capacity ignores first principles

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CFACT Ed

|2022-10-14T11:39:52-04:00October 16th, 2022|Comments Off

The coming green electricity nightmare

Hundreds of billions in new subsidies will bring expensive, unreliable, eco-destructive power.

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Paul Driessen

|2022-10-06T13:10:56-04:00October 5th, 2022|Comments Off

Giant Idaho wind project encounters stiff local resistance

“I have not heard one person in the community support the project.”

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2022-08-22T11:17:04-04:00August 19th, 2022|Comments Off

Reliable wind and solar are not cheap

That wind and solar are cheaper is at best a half truth, more like an eighth truth.

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David Wojick

|2022-08-11T10:44:21-04:00August 11th, 2022|Comments Off

They’re paneling paradise to put up solar — A lot

BY STEVE MILLER: Supplying 40% of the nation’s energy from the sun by 2035 means covering millions of acres of forest and desert with solar panel installations fenced off like prisons.

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CFACT Ed

|2022-07-15T11:10:57-04:00July 16th, 2022|Comments Off

Virginia’s offshore wind proposal threatens endangered whales

The massive offshore wind (OSW) project proposed by Dominion Energy may pose a serious threat to the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale population.

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David Wojick

|2022-07-07T21:22:05-04:00July 13th, 2022|Comments Off

Hurricane risk is real for offshore wind

It looks like wind generators will have to be redesigned specifically to withstand hurricanes.

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David Wojick

|2022-06-28T11:52:00-04:00June 24th, 2022|Comments Off

Backup battery cost fantasies abound

Energy policy needs to be based on sound engineering estimates, not wishful fantasies.

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David Wojick

|2022-06-13T14:11:24-04:00June 8th, 2022|Comments Off

Ohio County veto of wind project shows it’s time to end federal wind subsidies

BY ROBERT BRYCE: Rural Americans keep rejecting wind projects.

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CFACT Ed

|2022-05-20T10:38:42-04:00May 21st, 2022|Comments Off

Virginia agency challenges Dominion’s offshore wind deception

The Virginia electric power regulator, the State Corporation Commission (SCC), has now expressed serious concerns with the project.

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David Wojick

|2022-04-15T09:32:52-04:00April 15th, 2022|Comments Off

Wind power is unreliable

Maybe if we could put wind energy in "shoe boxes."

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Joanne Nova

|2022-04-05T10:33:16-04:00April 5th, 2022|Comments Off