German experiment to make wind powered Silicon Chips fails
Surprising no one: lumpy expensive electricity does not make for a High Tech Paradise It’s another example of how more green jobs means less real ones. A German High Tech Chip maker driven to Singapore...
View ArticleGreen energy “an existential threat to German economy” declares Supreme Auditors
Emden, Germany by Gritte The supreme auditors of Germany warned about the costs of Green energy a few years ago, but now they are paying attention to energy security too, and with sudden alarm they’ve...
View ArticleNSW power so erratically expensive an aluminium smelter powered down three...
The Tomago smelter uses more than 10% of the entire New South Wales electricity grid supply. But the price spikes in electricity are so crippling the industrial giant could not afford to keep running...
View ArticleThe Green Agenda meets The Energy Crisis (just in time for COP 26)
Some great Green plans are starting to come undone and it’s not even winter yet But it is just in time for a reality check on COP26. Europe’s energy crunch is continuing, as gas storage volumes have...
View ArticleGlasgow: electricity bills will go up £500,000 extra to pay COP26’s official...
Some poor sods will be paying extra to help Griffith Wind Farms cover the cost of shutting down for part of the COP26 Superhero Costume Party. If only that secret charge was listed on their electricity...
View ArticleEnergy Crisis in the UK: 40% face fuel poverty by winter and Govt may finally...
Wow. What does it take to get a democratic government to stop picking winners in socialist electrical generation? It takes a war, a 50% price rise, and the possibility that 4 in 10 households might be...
View ArticleAustralian wholesale electricity prices have doubled in the last year (and...
Luckily for Energy Oligarchs, Australian electricity prices have bounced right back to pre-pandemic insanity. Wholesale rates are romping around $170 dollars a megawatt hour in April across the whole...
View ArticleScorching electricity price spikes in NSW and Queensland
Brisbane on May 3rd was a glorious 15 to 25C (or 60F – 77F) and yet the price of electricity was shocking. The scale of the graph is so distorted that all the normal price gyrations fall to nothing,...
View ArticleMayhem on the Australian Grid continues — Record prices, factory shutdowns,...
Generation tonight…. Just another week in the Transition we (Don’t) have to have With 65 Glorious Gigawatts the Australian grid system has a vast excess (theoretically) of generation capacity, yet it’s...
View ArticleCold snaps and blistering electricity prices downunder — where one state...
And the bonfire continues As cold fronts sweep across the south east of Australia electricity prices are setting records nobody wants to set. The wholesale prices for electricity –across a whole month...
View ArticleStark contrasts: UK faces rolling three hour blackouts, while Norway has...
By Jo Nova Just to recap: Energy prices are so wildly high in Europe — thanks to a quest to alter the planetary climate — that 70% of fertilizer plants have already shut down, half the aluminum and...
View ArticleShh! Despite a bloodbath quarter for electricity prices, hated Brown Coal...
By Jo Nova We’ve never had another third quarter this expensive Despite setting price records — averaging $200/MWh across the whole quarter for the whole five-state National Energy Market, there’s like...
View ArticleMystery: Australians invest billions in free wind and solar, but prices rise...
By Jo Nova Last winter’s debacle in Australia could be repeated this year, but at even higher prices. Despite adding more cheap renewables per person than nearly anywhere on Earth, for some...
View ArticleVale Liddell coal: given away for nothing and destroyed by predatory...
By Jo Nova A “win” for predatory capitalism and government mis-interference Liddell power station (foreground). Bayswater power station (rear).Photo NSW DPI Yesterday, for the last time the final...
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