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CfDs: Facts v Myths
By Paul Homewood NZW has a long detailed analysis of how CfDs work. I would like to add some actual numbers to it: Advocates of wind and solar electricity argue that Contracts for Difference...
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Heads should roll over the electric car fiasco
By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie Profits at the German auto giant Mercedes plunged on Friday as sales of its slick new range of electric vehicles (EVs) went into freefall. Porsche abandoned its...
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Labour is accused of ‘lying’ over pledge to knock £300 off energy bills
By Paul Homewood It did not take long for Miliband’s promise to come unstuck! And watch out for when his silly windmills increase our energy bills, as he will then blame it on gas prices!...
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On Grid Stability
By Paul Homewood Readers of this site will be more aware than most of the difficulties involved in eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from electricity grids. The policy preference for wind turbines...
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Met Office State of the UK Climate Report
By Paul Homewood The Met Office are back with their “extreme weather” fraud: Climate change is causing a dramatic increase in the frequency of temperature extremes and number of temperature records...
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Ed Miliband’s Epitaph
By Paul Homewood Labour’s campaign centrepiece could prove to be a load of hot air Labour’s pledge to cut consumer energy bills by £300 was an election campaign centrepiece. Yet the promise began...
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GWPF welcomes Charity Commission’s findings
By Paul Homewood The Left often resort to lawfare to stymie opposition. This latest attempt to strip the GWPF of charity status was always bogus. The Good Law Project is run by the notorious Jolyon...
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Why weaning Britain off gas threatens to give Miliband a £74bn headache
By Paul Homewood Achieving net zero by 2050 relies on a shift that risks being as complicated as it is costly When Macquarie took full ownership of Britain’s main gas network in a £700m deal last...
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Rolls-Royce One Step Closer To SMRs
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Rolls-Royce has cleared a key hurdle in the race to build Britain’s first mini-nuclear power plant, as competition across Europe ramps up. On Tuesday, the...
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Air New Zealand scraps its 2030 carbon emissions target, saying solutions are...
By Paul Homewood From the Independent: Air New Zealand scrapped its 2030 carbon emissions reduction targets on Tuesday, citing lags in producing new planes, a lack of alternative fuel and...
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Miliband to add £1.5bn to energy bills in record offshore wind investment
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby Quite why the failure of offshore wind to offer competitive prices last year is “catastrophic” is a mystery! Ed Miliband is to add up to £1.5bn to energy bills as...
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Hottest Day
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Tuesday has become the hottest day of the year so far as a heatwave continues to affect large parts of the UK. Met Office measuring stations in both Heathrow and...
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Are Heatwaves Getting Worse?
By Paul Homewood As promised, I am returning to the Met Office’s State of the UK Climate Report:...
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Austerity may kill Labour’s green superpower ambitions at the first hurdle
By Paul Homewood h/t Robin Guenier A bit of a curate’s egg this time from AEP! Labour’s heady bid to make Britain a “clean energy superpower” has already run into cold reality, barely days into...
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AEP’s Carbon Capture Fantasy
By Paul Homewood h/t Doug Brodie The idiot is back again: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/08/02/carbon-capture-could-be-hero-green-economy/ The clown still does not seem to understand...
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US oil giant abandons California after 150 years over ‘harsh’ green policies
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby How long will it be before BP and Shell follow suit, and leave the UK? One of America’s biggest oil companies is to abandon its headquarters in California...
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Met Office Admit Storms Were Much Worse In Past
By Paul Homewood Back to the Met Office’s State of the UK Climate 2023 report. This time, a look at wind storms: https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/joc.8553 Despite the...
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CfD Renewables Costing £151/MWh This Year
By Paul Homewood https://dp.lowcarboncontracts.uk/dataset/actual-cfd-generation-and-avoided-ghg-emissions . We regularly look at the cost of subsidies paid via the CfD scheme. I have not really...
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US Tornado Review 2023
By Paul Homewood It’s time to unpack the annual tornado fraud from NOAA: . https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/monthly-report/tornadoes/202313 According to NOAA’s latest annual report,...
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Electric car sales forecast slashed as drivers turn to secondhand market
By Paul Homewood h/t Ian Magness Car makers have slashed their forecast for electric car sales this year amid an ongoing slowdown in demand. The Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT)...
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