Bird-torching Mojave solar facility shutting down
California's Ivanpah Solar was boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011.
California's Ivanpah Solar was boosted by $1.6 billion in taxpayer-backed loans in 2011.
Sending an unmistakable message to investors to avoid risking their capital on no-longer-fashionable green energy, the Department of Agriculture (USDA) is pulling the plug on a slew of funding programs for wind and solar power.
They want to pave the prairies with solar panels, line the ridges with wind towers, then ship the juice to faraway cities.
Making wind and solar work at all requires a fantastic amount of battery backup, far more than is possible.
Pushing up wind and solar in time to qualify for subsidies.
Unable to deliver the continuous flow of power demanded by the 21st century’s Industrial Revolution, green energy’s best days appear to be behind it.
Given that the blackout occurred on a sunny day and that hydro doesn’t fluctuate with weather, any attribution leaves wind as the only likely contributing culprit.
"It was very predictable, as we've been saying, solar and wind are variable. The grid has to have a 50 hertz, over in Europe it's 60 hertz here in America, and just going as tad below that at any point can cause massive blackouts. That's exactly what happened."
"Green" enterprises are now facing the daunting prospect of having to stand on their own two feet.
Wind and solar are promoted by a web of false narratives.
As wind turbines and solar panels are deposited in landfills their accumulation and that of their PFAS will pose a significant public health challenge.
In the past year, the S&P Global Clean Energy Index has lost 20%, a period during which the S&P 500 Index gained 16%.
CFACT scholars are providing Administration officials with the hard facts and policy heft they need to turn our energy economy around.
Is it time to ban intermittent generation from the grid?
A bad idea is emerging in the "renewables" world, namely that projects can buy their way out of destroying natural habitats