Wind – Page 2

Making PJM all wind and solar would cost over $2.4 trillion in battery backup

Making wind and solar work at all requires a fantastic amount of battery backup, far more than is possible.

By David Wojick |2025-07-11T22:42:52-04:00July 12th, 2025|Comments Off

U.S. “renewables” mad scramble to build is on

Pushing up wind and solar in time to qualify for subsidies.

By David Wojick |2025-07-06T22:44:01-04:00July 7th, 2025|Comments Off

Geothermal Energy: Another Nail in the Coffin of Wind and Solar Power?

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.

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D. |2025-07-02T23:04:41-04:00June 26th, 2025|Comments Off

Watch Craig Rucker on wind

Craig Rucker on Ladies With Another View on the problems with wind turbines.

By CFACT Ed |2025-06-23T21:50:55-04:00June 22nd, 2025|Comments Off

DOT asked to terminate illegal floating wind grant

The fly in the floating wind ointment is the "floater."

By David Wojick |2025-06-10T01:00:13-04:00June 10th, 2025|Comments Off

Showdown looms for Empire Wind

Empire is about to start driving the enormous steel monopiles that hold the turbine towers, but a new wrinkle has hit the fan.

By David Wojick |2025-06-02T00:09:49-04:00June 2nd, 2025|Comments Off

Think “green” energy is great? Look at Spain and Portugal

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.

By Larry Bell |2025-05-14T23:17:07-04:00May 15th, 2025|Comments Off

CFACT Monitors Dominion Energy Board Meeting

“It appears that Dominion has unwisely spent money on alternative energy sources that produce expensive electricity. Would it not be better for Virginia and other coal producing states like Wyoming and West Virginia to invest in more clean coal generation plants?”

By Nate Myers |2025-05-13T23:47:33-04:00May 14th, 2025|Comments Off

Watch Craig Rucker on solar leaving Spain and Portugal in the dark

"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."

By CFACT |2025-05-09T23:19:11-04:00May 10th, 2025|Comments Off

Wind power’s eagle-kill permits are a deadly failure, so permitting must stop

About 15 years ago the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) determined that the golden eagle population could not withstand an increase in human caused mortality.

By David Wojick |2025-05-05T22:39:32-04:00May 5th, 2025|Comments Off

Maine’s floating wind program takes another hit

The Sears Island floater factory was going to cost a lot of money so Maine applied to the US Transportation Department for a roughly half billion dollars.

By David Wojick |2025-04-27T22:50:49-04:00April 28th, 2025|Comments Off

Secretary Burgum: If offshore wind is wrong for New York, it is also wrong for Virginia!

The Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project, which is being built by Dominion Energy off the coast of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is the largest boondoggle project of all, and it is subject to all of the same concerns about offshore wind.

By Craig Rucker |2025-04-22T12:13:33-04:00April 22nd, 2025|Comments Off

Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences

The offset is called "compensatory mitigation" which means the wind power facility pays the FWS or their agents to have their eagle killing offset by helping others live someplace else.

By David Wojick |2025-04-22T11:18:45-04:00April 21st, 2025|Comments Off

Trump halts Long Island wind project

Watch Craig Rucker on the Matt Gaetz Show.

By CFACT |2025-04-18T23:25:01-04:00April 20th, 2025|Comments Off

Can Dominion Energy get away with defying President Trump on offshore wind?

Watch Craig Rucker on OAN.

By CFACT |2025-04-16T09:49:57-04:00April 16th, 2025|Comments Off