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- Contracts for Difference Subsidies on The Rise Again Sat, 15 Apr 23, 7:00pm...the subsidy conveyor belt is now running again.
- Demands for more subsidy expose the illusion of falling wind power costs Thu, 2 Mar 23, 9:00pmThe absurdity of current Net Zero plans is now exposed for all to see.
- Great Reset unravels? Germany is thinking of using Green subsidies on weapons of war instead Tue, 7 Feb 23, 5:24amBy Jo Nova Remember how the war with Ukraine was going to accelerate the green energy revolution? The Flakpanzer Gepard needs more ammo, not solar panels...
- Soviet electricity: UK faces blackouts, blistering costs and still has to pay wind farms £1b to do nothing Sat, 12 Nov 22, 6:22amBy Jo Nova Imagine an energy system so broken that the government forced The People to buy generators that only work (randomly) 30% of the time and told them they would still have to pay the generators even when their product...
- ROC Windfall Profits Hit £923 Million In UK, December 2021 Tue, 19 Apr 22, 7:00pmFrom NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT By Paul Homewood I have updated the ROC windfall profit figures, using the most recent available data for December 2021: I have…
- Forget “implicit” subsidies: Fossil fuels subsidize the whole world: feeding people and forests for free Fri, 26 Mar 21, 6:13amThe latest academic voodoo doll tossed at Fossil Fuels is a study claiming that the industry gets $65 billion in “implicit” subsidies in the US.
- Wind & Solar ‘Industries’ Crushed By COVID-19 Sat, 2 May 20, 11:00pmEndless subsidies for renewables losing priority for essential funding By Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California The only good news about the COVID-19 social change impacts on our...
- Massive subsidies & government dictated use drives renewables – absent these they’re ignored Wed, 9 Oct 19, 12:00amGuest essay by Larry Hamlin The EIA IEO 2019 report shows that end use energy sectors including industrial, residential, commercial and transportation made little use of renewable energy in 2018 with that trend forecast to...
- EIA data shows wind & solar met 3% of U.S. energy after $50 billion in subsidizes Fri, 7 Jun 19, 7:00amGuest essay by Larry Hamlin The EIA AEO 2019 report shows that in year 2018 wind and solar energy resources provide about 3% of U.S. total energy consumption while fossil fuel energy resources provide about 81% of total energy...
- Trump's nuclear bailout could cost consumers up to $17 billion each year Fri, 8 Jun 18, 4:00amThe Trump Administration is taking unprecedented steps to bail out failing nuclear and coal power plants, effectively nationalizing the American energy market with potentially drastic consequences for the renewable energy...
- Tesla battery, subsidy and sustainability fantasies Mon, 24 Jul 17, 1:00amMore subsidies from exhausted California taxpayers cannot compensate for hard realities Paul Driessen The first justification was that internal combustion engines polluted too much...
- Denmark to end subsidies for renewables much sooner than anyone thought possible Sat, 29 Apr 17, 1:10amThe renewable energy industry is performing extremely well in Denmark. The country's energy minister Lars Christian Lilleholt said it's performing so well, they'll be able to stop providing state support for clean energy...
- The Hood Robin Syndrome Sun, 30 Aug 15, 10:34amGuest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a new study out, under the imprimatur of the Energy Institute of the Haas School of Business in Berkeley, California, entitled The Distributional Effects of U.S. Clean Energy Tax...
- A prayer for our times by Dominic Lawson Fri, 26 Jun 15, 6:24pmA very PC prayer for our times by Dominic Lawson. And a cartoon by Josh.
- Stinking rich - Josh 330 Wed, 3 Jun 15, 1:54amH/t Paul Homewood on an interesting story in the LA Times about the subsidies Elon Musk receives. Well worth a read - if you dont mind the niff.