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It’s a cultThe latest ABC headline tells us that Climate Change is becoming a *major* driver of child marriage across Asia and the Pacific. All those super cyclones and floods (that never used to happen) are killing the family chickens, see, and poor mothers can’t afford to keep their daughters. And you, evil sod, who drives a 6 cylinder ute, are to blame for all the young women sold as chattel and denied an education 5,000 miles away. Every time you turn the air conditioner on, another young life is ruined. Obviously. But let’s not mention the data — where here in the West, the more CO2 we emitted, the older our brides got. Shh! It’s just a meaningless correlation.
In that empty space, the underlying ABC message is that our culture is so meaningless, so unimportant, that whether your daughter marries at 12 or 22 is determined more by the weather. It’s not that some cultures support socialist governments, corruption and crime, and don’t value women — and that leads to crippling poverty and child marriage. No! Once again, the ABC gets a billion dollars to miss the main point. The Christian West developed free markets, free speech and fossil fuels. And the capitalist West grew rich through coal, oil and gas, and that wealth freed up women to marry whomever they damn well wanted. The cultures on Earth that abhor child marriage are the rich West and the democratic wealthy Asians who largely picked up the Western lifestyle. The ABC obsession with blaming all things on “climate change” is like a stone-age cult. Claire Campbell, who wrote the ABC piece has probably never met a skeptic, let alone interviewed one. If she had, she might have realized that the experts have no idea what drives El Niño events. Yet here she is implying that we’re making El Nino’s worse. She’s blending paragraphs of Stone Age nonsense where she can say with a straight face that the Australian government thinks Climate Action might stop climate change, which might stop an El Niño, which might help a girl in Bangladesh become a brain surgeon. El Niño expected to ‘intensify’ child marriage rateKamrul Hasan Shawon said he too often met girls who aspired to be doctors, pilots or even entrepreneurs lose sight of those goals when they became child brides. The climate change and resilience program manager for Plan International in Bangladesh said, with the right pathways, these girls would go on to “work wonders” if they were not married off. And no one at the ABC thought we should ask the government if building solar panels would really stop child brides… Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said it was committed to ending child marriage and “protecting the rights of adolescent girls across the Indo-Pacific region” “Under Australia’s International Development Policy, gender equality and climate action are placed at the very core of Australia’s aid program.” The best thing we could do for the little girls of Bangladesh is probably to help them build coal fired power stations or nuclear plants. Except we Australians don’t know how to make nuclear plants, and the Russians have already built one for them which is expected to start operation soon. Maybe one day people in Bangladesh will teach us so we can catch up? It’s time to sell the ABC for whatever we can get. h/t David of Cooyal in Oz
July 11th, 2026 | Tags: ABC, Cult science, Hyperbole, Media bias | Category: Global Warming |  Print This Post | | Comments (31)By Jo Nova 50 States in the USA show that renewable policies push electricity prices up.A study by the Institute of Energy Research (IER) in the USA shows how voting for Democrats can lead to monster electricity prices. Wind and solar energy are practically free (as the experts keep telling us) but somehow states with the most ambitious renewable policies have the eye-watering electricity bills. Though there are exceptions when Democrats accidentally have big mountains and can make hydroelectric dams. (See Oregon and Washington, north of California). The original study came out in December 2025 with a close analysis of just five states. In the latest update they have analyzed another 13 states in detail. Full state profiles are available by clicking on the state, then clicking the link on the box that appears. According to Lawrence Berkeley National Labs: …each of the top five most expensive states for electricity have mandates requiring 100% of their power to come from renewable or carbon free sources, making their electricity unnecessarily more expensive. In contrast eight out of ten states with the lowest electricity prices are reliably red [Republican] and seven of those states have no ‘100% carbon free’ mandate. Higher electricity rates in Blue States are linked to renewable energy policiesIn Blue States have High Rates — the cost of electricity in Democrat states is 42% more expensive on average than in states that vote Republican (see the map below). I took the liberty of adding the costs for the cheapest and most expensive states in cents per kilowatt hour on the map, just so Australians can gawk at all sector retail electricity prices that we haven’t seen for 20 years. “All Sector” prices are an average of industrial, commercial and residential prices. These state costs are listed in the report. There are dramatically different bills on each side of some state borders. It must be tempting to use a long extension cord… Imagine paying 10c a KWh? A lot of America does. It’s no wonder companies are moving to the USA.
 The IEA Report: Blue States have High Rates (with prices in cents per kilowatt hour for the cheapest states and the most expensive)
Blue states have higher electricity costs, and net zero policies are to blame, analysis showsBy Kevin Killough, JustTheNews Using data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the analysis found that 86% of states with electricity prices above the national average voted for the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020 and 2024. By contrast, 80% of the 10 states with the lowest electricity prices voted for the Republican candidate in those same elections. As the original report says: Expensive Electricity is a choice.Electricity affordability is a function of state-level policy choices. States that have embraced aggressive renewable mandates, 100% “carbon-free” targets, premature coal and nuclear retirements, rooftop-solar cost shifting, and restrictions on natural gas infrastructure routinely deliver the nation’s highest electricity prices. California and New York, the poster children for this approach, now charge their residents and businesses significantly more than the national average, with price increases that have consistently outpaced the rest of the country. In contrast, states that have prioritized dispatchable, affordable generation consistently deliver the lowest electricity prices. Florida keeps rates below the national average despite near-universal airconditioning demand and frequent hurricanes. Louisiana enjoys the third-lowest rates in the nation while utilizing its abundant natural gas resources. Both states have done so under sustained Republican governance that has largely rejected the renewable mandate model. California is second in the nation in total electricity generation from renewable resources and leads the country in utility-scale solar generating capacity. California’s generation mix is 42% natural gas, 39% non-hydroelectric renewables, 12% hydroelectric, and 7% nuclear. Australia seems to be copying the Californian model except without as much hydroelectricity or any interconnectors to other jurisdictions when things go bad, and without any nuclear power. Through sheer luck and Labor incompetence, we still have some coal. And here’s the map of the political inclinations of those states in the last four elections.
 Map US Voting 2024: gammawammallama
We can vote ourselves to poverty… The experiment has been done, and the verdict is in.
July 9th, 2026 | Tags: Electricity Cost, Renewable Energy, USA | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (80) Photo Wise Hok Wai Lum By Jo Nova Who Needs World Heritage Listing Anyway?The best managed and largest reef system in the world just avoided being listed as “in danger” yet again. Despite the reef having near record levels of coral cover for the last four years, UNESCO tut-tutted and gave Australia a conditional pass, telling us we must do a water report in 18 months and conservation report in December 2028. Dance monkey, dance. Not only that, but the unaudited and unelected foreign committee tells the Australian government that we need to stop the destruction of Queensland’s forest and bushland too, because that’s making the whole planet warmer. So no more industrial wind parks in the wilderness then? Alas — The UN doesn’t care about that destruction, but they do say — like a true Nanny, that they will continue to “watch with a magnifying glass.” Which means exactly nothing. Other coral reefs in the world are being “blast fished” with home made bombs, but their governments didn’t make the mistake of begging for listing as a World Heritage Site, so they can blast away. The magnifying glass doesn’t see the exploding fish. The Patsy Labor Government should have told the UN to get a grip — instead it said “Thank you”. The Blob always winsThe UN threatens us with the dreaded sticker of reef sin nearly every year. They do a song and dance performance and so do we, and then we are granted mercy “with conditions” that usually involve spending millions of dollars on bureaucrats or “friends of the Blob”. Great Barrier Reef avoids ‘in danger’ listing in World Heritage Committee draft decisionABC News The Great Barrier Reef has avoided an “in danger” listing in a draft decision by the World Heritage Committee. In the document released overnight, the UNESCO Committee noted Australia’s “ongoing commitment and enhanced collaborative efforts” towards the reef’s long-term protection. However, the UN body also raised “utmost concern” over the site’s declining coral cover after mass bleaching events in 2024 and 2025. Their concerns are always ‘utmost’ — see Decision 47, Decision 45, Decision 46, all done while the Great Barrier Reef was at the highest levels of coral cover seen since 1986.
The UN looks acts and smells like it is a proto world government, telling us what to do with our forests, farms and coral. It costs the UN almost nothing to launch preposterous PR Bombs and extract whatever they want. And we pay the UN to do it. Pander, pander, panderAustralia welcomes draft UNESCO decision to keep Great Barrier Reef off danger listAustralia’s government has lobbied for years to keep the reef – which contributes more than A$9.0 billion ($6.25 billion) to the economy annually – off the list, as it could damage tourism at the site, which receives more than 2 million visitors each year.
Assistant Tourism Minister Nita Green said the decision overnight by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre “recognises Australia’s continued efforts to protect and manage this important icon”.
“Australia welcomes UNESCO’s decision to not list the reef as endangered, and recognise all of the work that’s been going into protecting the reef,” Green said in televised remarks from the capital Canberra.
Australia doesn’t need the UN Heritage Listing to prove the Great Barrier Reef is a spectacular tourism asset. We just need photos. As I said two years ago: The Labor party sold out the nation. The only correct response was to ask UNESCO why it was wasting our taxpayer funds and launch an audit of our UN contributions. Do we get value for money, or is the UN using our funds, and their own corrupt heritage list, to extort policies that the Australian voters didn’t vote for? It’s not about the scienceREFERENCE Peter Ridd, Reef Rebels Coral Cover Graph of AIMS data.
July 8th, 2026 | Tags: Big-Government, Corals, Great Barrier Reef, UNESCO | Category: Big-Government, Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (36)
By Jo Nova It was supposed to be so ambitious, clean and green but turned out to be unreliable, noisy and hard to live withThings are so bad, some farmers just want the old grid back, but the government won’t let them. Back in 2022, Western Power was excited about their big plan to get rid of 23,000 kilometers of wire in regional Western Australia by forcing about 4,000 farmers off-grid and supplying them with solar panels and batteries. As of 2026, they have installed about 500 systems. Those farmers are the guinea pigs for the forced transition, whether they like it or not. If renewable microgrids were going to work anywhere, it is surely in sunny vast first-world Western Australia, where renewable installations are only competing with a high-cost sparse long distance network. But it hasn’t worked out as well as they hoped:Maintenance issues, outages plague WA standalone power systemsBy Mark Bennett and Rosemary Murphy, ABC News Stateline, WA “We probably used to get three or four power outages a year and we thought it’s going to be great, we’ll have power all year round,” Mr [Ben] Parsons said. “Since it’s been installed, we’ve had untold power outages, probably getting up towards 70 power outages.“ He has asked Western Power to switch him back on to the main grid, but the utility rejected his request. “We’ve had kids in the bath, and the power’s dropped out, 7 o’clock at night middle of winter pitch black, you’ve got kids screaming in the bathroom,” he said. “It sounds like the generator is right outside the kids’ bedroom. My seven-year-old said to me the other day, ‘Oh Dad what’s that noise I can’t get to sleep’ … and it was the generator running.” Big-Government isn’t giving people any choices. They turned up at one 85 year old’s house and told her they were cutting off her power and installing a standalone system. She had no warning. And apparently under the legislation, this is all fine, they don’t need to ask permission, and if you refuse them access to your land, they’ll just get a warrant. According to Western Power 96% of customers are getting more reliable power now. The noise might be driving them nuts, but at least it’s reliable. Here’s what the ABC was saying just 4 years ago –” It’s just a simple piece of technology, right?” Farmers are getting renewable Standalone Power Systems as Western Australia’s regional power grid is dismantled— By James Purtill, for The ABC, 2 Oct, 2022 Each “Standalone Power System” (SPS) is a fairly simple piece of technology, but the cumulative effect of the planned rollout will be enormous: 23,000km of wire will be taken down, or enough to string a power line around mainland Australia. According to Western Power, no other network operator has embraced off-grid power on this scale, anywhere in the world. [At Craig Poultney’s farm…] a fenced area contains about 60 ground-mounted solar panels providing nearly 20kW of energy, of about four-times the amount of a standard rooftop solar array. Western Power plans to install 4,000 SPS in the next decade, and up to 6,000 within 20-30 years. So far, it’s managed about 100. But even back in 2022, there were signs of trouble. Farmers at the end of the line used to get blackouts which the solar panels and batteries were meant to improve, but if a storm knocked out the new generator or the solar panels, farmers were not allowed to switch it back on. They had to wait for an official to drive out and flick the switch, which sometimes took 12 hours.  The map of the South West Interconnected System (SWIS) of Western Australia covers more than half a million square kilometers. — most of which is farmland. The Cost, The Cost…The key question, of course, is “what does it cost”, and “who pays” and the answer is — “unknown” and “we all do”.The farmers are charged at the same rate for electricity as city folk and everything is subsidized, though Western Power was not saying how much in 2022: Western Power declined to say how much a standard-size SPS cost to install, but other sources have estimated they’re about $150,000 each. Installing an SPS became economical when a single customer had at least 4km of lines, Western Power’s Ben Bristow said. “Our modelling shows that over their 50-year life, installing standalone power systems is actually more cost efficient than poles and wires for certain parts of our network,” he said. Horizon Power, the state-owned corporation which manages the network for the parts of Western Australia outside of the SWIS, is also using SPS to supply remote farms and properties. It’s so far received $6 million to deliver 150 systems across regional Western Australia. They modeled a 50 year life? Parts of South West WA has some of the lowest population density in the inhabited world, so renewables only have to compete against a sparse grid that’s expensive to run. And yet, here we are, just four years later, and even the ABC can’t find that many nice things to say about it. REFERENCE Map of SouthWest Grid: A Fereidouni et al Online Security Assessment of Low-Inertia Power Systems: A Real-Time Frequency Stability Tool for the Australian South-West Interconnected System DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2010.14016 h/t Bally, TonyfromOz, ABC News.
July 7th, 2026 | Tags: Battery, Microgrid, Solar Energy (PV), SWIS (WA Grid), Western Australia (WA) | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (68)If you are in Perth, you might like to hear the story and meet Ron Manners, a great Australian miner and philanthropist.  An Oil Tanker at Kwinana, Western Australia. Photo by Calistemon. By Jo Nova Like the US and UK — the political tides have shifted in Australia and our Prime Minister’s petty scorn of the rising right wing party will bite himDear PM, One Nation wouldn’t need to go begging to Asia for spare diesel because if they were in government Australia would be drilling for it ourselves… Even the Labor Party is now worried about the meteoric rise of One Nation in the polls. So Anthony Albanese, the PM, tried to attack Pauline Hanson by arguing that she couldn’t go crawling to Asia for emergency fuel supplies (like he did), because Asia will remember what she has said. (Which is roughly that she wants to stop mass immigration from Asia (and everywhere else) and end the multicultural experiment.) One Nation just need to point out the obvious — that a smart political party wouldn’t need to run off and beg for fuel in the first place, because they’d be self sufficient instead. It was his incompetence that meant Australia had only a 30 day supply of fuel, barely two refineries, and no merchant fleet (not one ship!) and had made it impossibly hard for explorers to drill. He’s knows this is true. After the crisis, his government has already bought at least one cargo ship, is talking about building refineries, and has promised to build up our strategic fuel reserve. Labor and Anthony Albanese on the slide in three states, Newspoll findsBy Geoff Chambers, The Australian The surge in One Nation’s primary vote in Newspoll over the past three months, hitting a record 31 per cent last month before edging back to 29 per cent in the most recent poll, has dented core backing for the major parties across most key demographics and states. The Prime Minister on Friday took aim at One Nation leader Pauline Hanson for pushing for Australia to dump multiculturalism and embrace a monoculture. Mr Albanese, who is increasingly being forced to turn his political attacks onto One Nation given its poll surge, said Senator Hanson’s approach would have made her unable to secure fuel from Asian trading partners at the height of the oil supply crunch. “I reckon they (Asian leaders) probably remember what she has said about them,” Mr Albanese said. And in the interim, while Australia restores its own oil and gas industry and builds back the refineries that the Uniparty have destroyed, a One Nation prime minister could easily ask the culturally aligned USA for oil and gas. In any case, the Japanese Prime Minister would probably be pretty sympathetic to an Australian leader who was concerned about the rise of China, and one who understood why Japan chooses not to allow mass immigration, and wanted to have a similar policy. The Labor Party have no idea what’s coming, and sadly, nor do the Liberals. One Nation are now the Party of the long forgotten workers:Newspoll looked at nearly 5,000 voters in polls spread across the last 3 months. Just as many women as men supported One Nation, and there is a strong move in young voters towards One Nation. One Nation dominates the non-university educated voter cohorts, with the quarterly analysis showing the party holding a commanding lead over the major parties in both the no tertiary (33 per cent) and TAFE or technical qualifications (36 per cent) categories. University-educated voters are sticking with Labor (38 per cent), ahead of the Coalition (20 per cent) and One Nation (17 per cent). Support for One Nation among university-educated Australians has more than doubled since the end of December. Among those with a household income over $100,000, Labor was the most popular choice, with 30 per cent of the vote. And so it is, that the Labor Party have become the party of the academics and the wealthy, and the workers of Australia are realizing that they’ve been sold out.
July 4th, 2026 | Tags: Australian Politics, One Nation | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (94)
 Russelville Powerplant by Edibobb By Jo Nova Remember all the people who said coal was a stranded asset?The two largest economies on Earth are throwing money at it. The AI boom is pushing the USA to invest in fossil fuel power in a big way(especially gas). America Bets $50 Billion On Coal And Gas Power, More Than China, As Electricity Demand SoarsIrena Slav, OilPrice U.S. companies are set to spend some $50 billion on power generation from coal and natural gas this year, the International Energy Agency has said, as quoted by the Financial Times. This would be the first time in decades that U.S. spending on coal and gas generation would be higher than what China is investing in the two fuels, with the difference at $3 billion. That is some transformation — wow.  Financial Times/ Zerohedge. Waiting times have blown out for gas turbines: The report cited a Rystad Energy analyst as saying prices for gas turbines have gone up from $800 per kWh to over $2,500. In addition to data centers, whose owners have bet on baseload power supply from gas power plants—and coal, too—the expansion of wind and solar has also prompted stronger demand for baseload generation to keep the grid balanced when the weather is unfavorable for either wind or solar generation, or both. While demand for electricity soars, gas turbine production has been flat over the past few years, resulting in a deficit. Siemens Energy, one of the world’s top three gas turbine makers, reported in February that its gas services business had seen a record quarter in orders, with a total of 102 new turbines in the backlog. As much as 40% of these new orders came from the United States, and another 35% came from Europe.
As a commenter at Zero Hedge opined: China spends $50B on coal plants and builds 50 new coal plants. US spends $50B on coal plants and that pays for the permits, environmental studies and 10 years of litigation in the courts for one new coal plant. We hope Trump has got rid of some of that red tape. Still, it’s hard to sell the end of coal when the biggest economies are spending gangbusters on fossil fuels.
By Jo Nova Each year the World Bank hands out about $120 billion dollars in grants and loans to poor and middle income countries. But with 670 million people still without access to electricity, you’d think they’d have more important things to do than trying to slow storms in 100 years time. However The World Bank is a pure creature of The Blob — dependent on Big Government handouts, and comfortably one or two degrees of separation away from any voters or accountability which makes it free to waste money on vainglorious trivia. Unfortunately for the apparatchik the US is the world’s biggest funder of The World Bank, and President Trump has been giving them a hard time. A few months ago, Scott Bessent called on the World Bank to get back to their core mission — saying they’d lost their way trying to work in climate change, gender, and fashionable social issues. They do have a policy to end poverty by “accelerating gender equity” — if you can believe. The world’s poor need roads, ports, clean water and reliable electricity, not a prize for participation in a global rain dance. If the loans have to fit in a sacred climate box, countries end up designing a show-case grid instead of the grid they need. How many people died of cold or hunger who could have been saved if the World Bank helped them build a coal fired power plant instead of a wind farm or a gender equity conference? World Bank to abandon goal to devote 45% of lending resources to climate change projectsReuters WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) – The World Bank Group said on Monday it will “retire” its previous goal to devote 45% of its annual lending resources to projects with climate co-benefits, but extend its longstanding Climate Change Action Plan that was due to expire on Tuesday.
The development lender, which had been under pressure from the Trump administration to abandon the climate lending target adopted during the Biden administration in 2023, said in a statement it would complete a shift to focusing on lending outcomes rather than input goals.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in 2025 had ordered the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to return to their core missions of development and financial stability, arguing they had strayed too far into climate, gender and other areas opposed by the Trump administration. In April, he said the bank’s “myopic” focus on climate financing targets had to go. It’s Trump versus The Blob: Executive directors including France and 18 other shareholding countries had signed a letter last October endorsing the bank’s continued work on climate change, but the largest shareholder, the United States, declined to sign, along with executive directors representing Russia, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, while India and Japan abstained. It’s unusual enough for Politico to use the words Trump and wins, in the same sentence. Trump wins climate battle at the World BankBy Arianna Skibel, Politico Eliminating the spending target marks a victory for President Donald Trump, whose administration has described it as “distortionary” and “nonsensical.” As its largest shareholder, the United States holds sway over World Bank decisions. And the administration spent months pressuring it to drop the climate finance target, which U.S. officials said must go despite other countries indicating their support. Hallelujah. Every cent that goes to The Blob makes it stronger. The money buys experts, press releases, lawfare, and a dependent cheer squad. h/t Another Ian UPDATE: To appreciate just how awful the World Bank is — see them brag that they have “not made any coal investments for over a decade”. They have deprived the poor in the third world from getting access to cheap electricity. They stopped investing in upstream oil and gas in 2019. Meanwhile they are the “biggest multilateral funder” of climate investments in developing countries, which means, presumably giving unreliable power to people who desperately need real electricity, while they pump money to China to make more useless solar panels and wind towers. h/t David Maddison. Mr. Trump brings the World Bank to heel, — Ruairi
July 2nd, 2026 | Tags: Blob (The), The Blob, World Bank | Category: Global Warming | Print This Post | | Comments (30)Bafflement?! Germany, a global leader in renewables but has one of the highest EU electricity prices Germany had nuclear power for 66 years | Kühltürme AKW in Phillipsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany By Fischer.H By Jo Nova If renewables are expensive, it’s volatile coal’s fault!How can it be? Germany has all that free wind and solar power but the price of electricity is the second highest in Europe. Apparently a nation with 45% of its generation from wind and solar is still “tied to volatile fossil fuel”. This is like a hostage situation, it’s so cruel?! EuroNews is spinning a fairy tale at 100 miles an hour. Germany is a leader in renewables, so why does it have one of the highest EU electricity prices?Germany generated more electricity from solar and wind in 2025 than any other EU country – but its prices remain tied to volatile fossil fuels.
German households pay around a third more for electricity than the EU average, despite the country’s impressive efforts to ditch fossil fuels. According to energy think tank Ember, Germany is one of the “global leaders” for wind and solar energy deployment, with 59 per cent of its electricity coming from clean sources in 2025. Since the introduction of its landmark renewable energy law (Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz) in 2000, the country’s share of generation from wind and solar alone has skyrocketed from less than two per cent to almost 45 per cent last year. At the same time, coal – which is often described as the ‘dirtiest’ form of energy – fell from supplying more than half of Germany’s electricity to just 21 per cent. Using Eurostat data on electricity prices for the second half of 2025, 1KOMMA5° calculates that the EU average comes out at €0.29 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) including taxes and levies – but in Germany, households pay an average of €0.39/kWh.
The stark truth: The system costs are awfulA wind and solar grid is really two grids for the price of … two grids. One grid helps impress your shallow academic friends at dinner, while the other grid (the reliable one) could run all the time, but has to sit around waiting for the first grid to fail, which it does often, and then it swings in to gear to save the day. Neither grid is running efficiently, the unreliable one forces the reliable one to stop and start. So we get the worst of all worlds and a big electricity bill. Wind and solar power are only cheap if you don’t mind blackouts or shutting down factories and destroying your manufacturing base (BASF, Volkswagen, anyone?)
EuroNews delivers the bad news: €500 a family wasted on a weather shifting projectFor a typical single household (consuming 1,500 kWh), Germany’s high electricity prices mean households will be paying around €150 per year compared to the EU average – or an additional €500 for a family with a 5,000 kWh electricity consumption. The one thing wind and solar can’t buy — FlexibilityWhy does Germany waste clean energy?But as Jannik Schall, co-founder of 1KOMMA5°, points out: “Germany does not have too much cheap wind and solar power, but too little flexibility in the system.” Last year, Germany spent €435 billion euros on renewable energy curtailment. This involves intentionally shutting down electricity production in areas of oversupply and ramping up supply elsewhere. System costs get you every timeUnreliable generators need a massive oversupply of generation, frequency stability, transmission lines, back up batteries, new market arrangements, payments for curtailment of the oversupply of generators, and then you have to throw away all the generators after 20 to 25 years, bury them in a big hole and start again. Crazy people thought two grids would be cheaper than one. |
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