French renewables subsidy harvesters EDF are counting the cost of repairs to the UK’s largest solar farm, built just two years ago, after it was severely damaged by a totally natural and not unprecedented winter storm.
Perhaps we need another petition to force Parliament to debate repealing the climate change legislation and maybe a committee hearing where our side gets to choose our representatives in the debate. Is there legal action we can take against private individuals responsible for this waste of our taxes and endangering our energy security?
Billions wasted in subsidies will not generate more electricity; that money would be better spent building nuclear. The rich are rich enough.
Miliband’s claim that he can decarbonise the UK electricity grid by 95% by 2030 based on a massive expansion of intermittent wind and solar power is pure fantasy. For a start, he will never overcome the logistical difficulties which will impede such a massive endeavour, never mind future Darragh-type wreckages.
Even if he could eventually manage to quadruple offshore wind and hugely increase onshore wind and solar, simple logic indicates that the share of renewables in that future fuel type mix would be little different from now, namely 42% (in 2023) of UK total UK electricity demand according to the latest DUKES report (see the summary of the section on electricity): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a7e14da3c2a28abb50d922/DUKES_2024_Chapters_1-7.pdf.
Increasing the capacity of intermittent renewables by, say, a factor of three will show the same patterns of intermittency as now but their amplitudes will be larger by a factor of three.
These renewables intermittencies and almost total losses of supply during Dunkelflaute conditions have to be balanced/backed up by dispatchable power supplies, mainly CCGT gas. The future gas supply capacity will have to be expanded pro rata with the wind and solar capacity, otherwise the country will face unacceptably frequent power cuts. There is zero possibility of that gas supply being abated using CCS by 2030. QED, 95% decarbonisation by 2030 by expansion of wind and solar is impossible.
It's a bums on seats (or out in the cold sometimes) policy. Doesn't have to do anything but looks like people are employed in "Green jobs" doing productive things and the GDP gets a zip. A more nuanced boondoggle really. Happens in lots of big industries, the space sector especially. Trouble is it doesn't actually benefit the country or secure energy nor does it bring down prices and encourage competition. It's a cult and sadly has backing in law until of course someone with a backbone suspends the whole lot pending a common sense upload.
We know it's impossible, Mad Ed probably knows it's impossible, but he and his get-rich-quick Green grifter friends are going to ensure that they wreck the economy, the countryside, British industry and jobs, our entire way of life and our cherished freedoms in an attempt to achieve Mission Impossible. We're gonna need a lot more Dunkelflautes and Darraghs to stop them!
Perhaps we need another petition to force Parliament to debate repealing the climate change legislation and maybe a committee hearing where our side gets to choose our representatives in the debate. Is there legal action we can take against private individuals responsible for this waste of our taxes and endangering our energy security?
Billions wasted in subsidies will not generate more electricity; that money would be better spent building nuclear. The rich are rich enough.
A few more tales of woe on wind and solar power:
Graveyard of unrecyclable wind turbine blades: https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2022/02/28/graveyard-of-the-green-giants/
Aging wind farms falling to pieces: https://stopthesethings.com/2024/03/15/gravity-strikes-again-ageing-wind-turbines-literally-falling-to-pieces/
Wind turbine concrete and steel foundations: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/11/20/wind-turbine-foundations/
Catastrophic blade failure in Siemens giant 6.2MW turbine: https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/blade-break-hits-giant-brand-new-wind-turbine-as-siemens-gamesa-woes-mount/2-1-1482939
Nebraska solar plant wrecked by hailstorm: https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1756677954866757750
Floating solar plant wrecked by storm: https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/05/13/storm-ravages-worlds-largest-floating-solar-plant-takes-it-offline-days-after-launch/
Solar plants wiped out by twisters: https://stopthesethings.com/2024/10/21/hurricane-havoc-twisters-wipeout-thousands-of-solar-panels-across-us/
Weather dependent, weather vulnerable. Who could see this coming!!!! Been happening in Texas for years now!!!
What a surprise!
Miliband’s claim that he can decarbonise the UK electricity grid by 95% by 2030 based on a massive expansion of intermittent wind and solar power is pure fantasy. For a start, he will never overcome the logistical difficulties which will impede such a massive endeavour, never mind future Darragh-type wreckages.
Even if he could eventually manage to quadruple offshore wind and hugely increase onshore wind and solar, simple logic indicates that the share of renewables in that future fuel type mix would be little different from now, namely 42% (in 2023) of UK total UK electricity demand according to the latest DUKES report (see the summary of the section on electricity): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/66a7e14da3c2a28abb50d922/DUKES_2024_Chapters_1-7.pdf.
Increasing the capacity of intermittent renewables by, say, a factor of three will show the same patterns of intermittency as now but their amplitudes will be larger by a factor of three.
These renewables intermittencies and almost total losses of supply during Dunkelflaute conditions have to be balanced/backed up by dispatchable power supplies, mainly CCGT gas. The future gas supply capacity will have to be expanded pro rata with the wind and solar capacity, otherwise the country will face unacceptably frequent power cuts. There is zero possibility of that gas supply being abated using CCS by 2030. QED, 95% decarbonisation by 2030 by expansion of wind and solar is impossible.
It's a bums on seats (or out in the cold sometimes) policy. Doesn't have to do anything but looks like people are employed in "Green jobs" doing productive things and the GDP gets a zip. A more nuanced boondoggle really. Happens in lots of big industries, the space sector especially. Trouble is it doesn't actually benefit the country or secure energy nor does it bring down prices and encourage competition. It's a cult and sadly has backing in law until of course someone with a backbone suspends the whole lot pending a common sense upload.
We know it's impossible, Mad Ed probably knows it's impossible, but he and his get-rich-quick Green grifter friends are going to ensure that they wreck the economy, the countryside, British industry and jobs, our entire way of life and our cherished freedoms in an attempt to achieve Mission Impossible. We're gonna need a lot more Dunkelflautes and Darraghs to stop them!
Chapeaux!
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