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Staggering financial incompetence.
Britain has so far spent nearly £300 billion on renewable subsidies.
Why?
Because we want to reduce the gas bill for making electricity - around £5 billion per year
Spending £300 to save on £5 is utterly nuts!
No wonder we have the highest electricity prices in the world
subsidyclock.co.uk/
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So 'wind power' has finally finished its megasulk (dunkelflaute) and is up to making 8% of our electricity right now.
But it was below 5% for over 3 days. (80 hours).
Wind fans can't wish this away by looking at annual averages.
If it fails us for 3 whole days it is clearly not fit to power a modern society. Junk it!
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Next to no wind and solar. We're under an Electricity Margin Notice, meaning NESO thinks we're short of generation capacity, yet we're exporting to the Continent. Make it make sense.
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In UK we've spent nearly £300,000,000,000 on subsidising 'renewable electricity'
But over the weekend renewables produced next to nothing.
We had to rely on the backup ways.
And they worked. Without any wind and solar the lights stayed on.
So why bother with wind and solar at all? We could junk them and save all that subsidy! And nobody would notice any difference in their electricity...
subsidyclock.co.uk/
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Here's yesterday's 'wind power' (oh I can't stop giggling at the name) electricity production for UK.
Struggled up to nearly 3% but then settled back to a more comfortable 1%..where its stayed until now.
And just think! We've 'invested' (= flushed down the lav) over £200 billion in the wind industry - enough to run the NHS for over a year - in this pathetic, pitiful flibbertigibbet of a power source
The Wind Gods are laughing at us for our stupidity!
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Offshore wind farms no longer economically viable..What a surprise.
Energiekonzerne wollen bereits ersteigerte Offshore-Flächen zurückgeben, weil sich die geplanten Windparks wirtschaftlich nicht mehr rechnen. Steigende Baukosten, verzögerte Netzanschlüsse und unsichere Erlöse bringen Projekte mit bis zu 9,5 Gigawatt ins Wanken. Der Staat plant deshalb eine Neuvergabe – während der Industrie Aufträge und Tausende Arbeitsplätze fehlen.
#OffshoreWind #Windenergie #Energiewende #Industrie
blackout-news.de/aktuelles/o…
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It is now 30 hours since wind made even 5% of UK's electricity.
This is not a tiny blip. Not a phenomenon to be ignored.
Without gas ('CCGT') backup it would have been national power outage time...
But if we have gas backup, why bother with wind at all? Why not just use gas all the time?
Stop These Things' Weekly Round Up: 8 November 2026 stopthesethings.com/2026/11/… via @StopTheseThings
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A single nuclear power plant produces as much power as 5000 wind turbines & does it when the wind is not blowing.
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Wind and solar - the flagship sources of 'green energy' and the lynchpins of Net Zero are making together just 2% of UK's electricity right now
We have been 'investing' in them for the best part of 30 years.
Has our money been well spent?
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On Friday 6 November, Britain’s electricity system operator spent consumers’ money like a gold digger who just got her hands on a billionaire’s Amex, paying very high prices for additional electricity imports, with interconnector auctions recording clearing prices above £2,500 /MWh
@neso_energy also accepted offers in the Balancing Mechanism at prices approaching £1,000 /MWh.
So why was NESO buying so much expensive electricity when there was apparently plenty of domestic generating capacity available?
My theory - on a low wind day it couldn't afford huge forecasting errors so it bought extra electricity on imports, turned gas generators up to SEL giving quick access to MEL if needed and turned down batteries to balance the market and preserve charge just in case
@Miatsf @mgshanks @AndrewBowie_MP @ClaireCoutinho @HarrietCross_MP @ColinMoynihanUK @drlukeevans @Ashley7Fox @cmackinlay @TiceRichard @mattwridley @DavidGHFrost @Iromg @AllisonPearson @MerrynSW @EdConwaySky @afneil @CitySamuel @mattotele @Jonathan__Leake @ofgem @energygovuk
watt-logic.com/2026/11/07/wa…
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Jarenlang kreeg u te horen dat wind op zee volwassen was. Geen subsidie meer nodig. De markt kon het zelf.
Mooi verhaal.
Tot vorig jaar voor een nieuw windpark op de Noordzee precies nul aanvragen binnenkwamen. Geen ontwikkelaar. Niemand. Toen bleek die volwassen markt ineens toch wel wat hulp nodig te hebben. De overheid erkent inmiddels zelf dat steun noodzakelijk is om investeringen aantrekkelijk te houden. Vanaf 2027 komen er vaste prijsafspraken: is de marktprijs te laag, dan legt de overheid bij.
Lees: U.
En nu zegt een emeritus hoogleraar windenergie in Trouw dat wind op zee waarschijnlijk nooit écht subsidieloos zal worden. Maar let op: het heet nog steeds een succes.
Dus even voor u vertaald. Subsidieloos bleek niet subsidieloos. De markt bleek het niet zelf te kunnen. Toen niemand zich meldde, kwam de overheid met steun. En nu wordt u uitgelegd dat precies dát bewijst dat het beleid geslaagd is.
U draagt via de overheid een deel van het risico, u betaalt mee aan het netwerk en de sector krijgt prijszekerheid. En als het oorspronkelijke verhaal niet meer klopt met de werkelijkheid, veranderen we gewoon de betekenis van het woord “succes”.
Knap wel.
#windopzee #klimaatbeleid #subsidie #energierekening #Noordzee #belastinggeld
trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-econom…
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This remains one of the most shameful periods of environmental destruction in Australia’s history.
For nothing other than making foreigners, and a few grifting billionaires, richer.
And we are paying for it.
Stop These Things' Weekly Round Up: 1 November 2026 stopthesethings.com/2026/11/…
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Here’s another story that the ABC will censor, because the ABC don’t want Australians to be informed.
In India, Coal-fired power generation rose 25.7% in October from a year ago.
Further, coal’s share in overall generation in India rose to 71.7% from 66.03% in September compared to last year.
reuters.com/world/india/indi…
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Gestern, 17 Uhr.
Deutschland in der Dunkelflaute.
Strombedarf: 61,2 Gigawatt.
Wind und Sonne lieferten sagenhafte 2,2 Gigawatt.
3,7 Prozent!
Den Rest mussten vor allem Gas- und Kohlekraftwerke sowie Stromimporte stemmen. Ausgerechnet jene Kraftwerke also, die man hierzulande am liebsten stilllegen oder gleich sprengen möchte.
Währenddessen explodieren die Börsenstrompreise zeitweise auf über 500 Euro pro Megawattstunde.
Kernkraftwerke haben wir abgeschaltet. Kohlekraftwerke sollen verschwinden. Und wenn der Wind nicht weht, hoffen wir auf unsere Nachbarn und Importe.
Ideologie ist eben teuer.
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THE GLOBAL WARMING SCAM HAS COLLAPSED
"Voters in climate minister Chris Bowen’s electorate have rejected the government’s scaremongering on coal, with 78 per cent of locals saying they support keeping existing coal fired power plants going until an alternative is ready and 80 per cent saying NSW should build new ones.
The stunning results were replicated across a dozen seats around the Sydney area, according to research from the Coalition for Conservation and come after years of rising power prices and Labor’s broken promise to cut energy bills by $275.
And in news that will likely give Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pause, 82 per cent of voters in his own green-tinged inner city seat of Grayndler said existing coal power plants should be allowed to keep running.
Sixty-three per cent of Grayndler locals backed the idea of NSW building new coal plants to power the state."
dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n…