Why The War On Nitrous Oxide?
By Paul Homewood As I reported the other day, farmers are up in arms about the new tax on imported fertilisers, which will result from the carbon border adjustment mechanism, an import tax on...
View ArticleAnother windfarm surpasses £1 billion in subsidy payments
By Paul Homewood London: 14 November 2024 Another windfarm surpasses £1 billion in subsidy payments The Beatrice Offshore Windfarm has become the fourth windfarm to have received more than £1...
View ArticleWind Power Disappears in Germany and UK
By Paul Homewood https://bmrs.elexon.co.uk/generation-by-fuel-type As we know, there was not much wind about last week. In particular, between Nov 1st and 7th wind supplied only 7% of power in...
View ArticleLord Frost opens the debate on the cost of renewables
By Paul Homewood Excellent speech from Lord Frost. The only surprise is that somebody had to stand up and say the obvious!
View ArticleNo Airports. No Imports. No Meat. Cold Homes. Starmer’s Dystopian Future
By Paul Homewood Starmer has just confirmed at COP29 that the UK will formally aim to cut emissions by 81% from 1990 levels by 2035. This means a cut of 65% from current levels. This is in line with...
View ArticleUK Approves $2.5 Billion Funding for Power Link to North Sea Wind Farms
By Paul Homewood Just another couple of billions of your money! From OilPrice.Com The UK’s energy regulator Ofgem on Friday awarded a $2.5 billion (£2 billion) funding package for a subsea...
View ArticleWhy Ed Miliband’s net zero dream is doomed to failure
By Paul Homewood h/t George Herraghty Climate summits – with delegates flying in on private jets to discuss reductions in carbon emissions – tend to be hotbeds of irony. But the United Nations...
View ArticleTrump’s New Energy Secretary
By Paul Homewood Drill, bay, drill!! Donald Trump’s pick for energy secretary called net zero a “sinister goal” and was once censored by LinkedIn for posting a video of his views on climate...
View ArticleRota Load Disconnections- aka Power Cuts–Coming To Your Street
By Paul Homewood h/t Philip Bratby They’re preparing for the inevitable blackouts: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its impact on global energy markets mean the UK and Europe face a challenging...
View ArticlePut cigarette-style warnings on bacon, says Dale Vince
By Paul Homewood This is what you get when you send tens of millions in wind subsidies to some overgrown child. It’s Vince who needs a Health Warning stuck on him, not bacon> He told the...
View ArticleThe UK’s Weather in 2023
By Paul Homewood London, 18 November: The Global Warming Policy Foundation has just published its annual review of UK weather. Once again, author Paul Homewood finds little to be alarmed about....
View ArticleNew Wind Farm Subsidies
By Paul Homewood Andrew Montford has highlighted yet another subsidy for offshore wind, which went under the radar last week. (Andrew’s reference to £27m/MW should read per GW, by the way):...
View ArticleWest Midlands town in uproar over ‘noisy’£2.5m heat pump
By Paul Homewood h/t Paul Kolk A West Midlands town has been torn apart by a “humming noise” from a £2.5m heat pump installed by a local college without planning permission. Dudley College of...
View ArticleIs deadly weather being ‘supercharged’?
By Paul Homewood Excellent retort by Ross Clark: So that’s it then: the Guardian has declared that we are all being scorched, drowned and blown over by climate change. The website Carbon Brief,...
View ArticleDavid Viner Day
By Paul Homewood David Viner – March 2000 “within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event"”. “Children just aren’t going to know what snow is,"...
View ArticleWind Turbine Foundations
By Paul Homewood Ever wondered what goes into the foundations of a wind turbine? When it is finally decommissioned (if it ever is), these foundations will remain.
View ArticleLabour is facing a civil war over net zero
By Paul Homewood It was Europe for the Conservatives for much of the last twenty years, reform of public services and the Iraq war for the Blair government, and Europe again during the Thatcher...
View ArticleLow Carbon Dispatchable Power
By Paul Homewood https://www.neso.energy/publications/clean-power-2030 You will recall the NESO’s Clean Power 2030 report to Ed Miliband a couple of weeks ago, which made it absolutely clear that...
View ArticleDESNZ Permanent Secretary has “shocking” conflict of interest
By Paul Homewood London: 20 November 2024 Whitehall Permanent Secretary has “shocking” conflict of interest Net Zero Watch calls for inquiry into the renewables sector Campaigning organisation Net...
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