Lots of Hot Air, no results
/Shell's recent decision to halt its $1 billion offshore wind project in New Jersey underscores a troubling trend in the renewable energy sector.
— Stephen Moore (@StephenMoore) February 3, 2025
With offshore wind costs surging by 30-40% over the past two years, now averaging $230/MWh, financial pressures from inflation,… pic.twitter.com/wCMklICG4T
This stuff just isn’t profitable without govt subsidies https://t.co/qClkSosoEz
— HedgedIn (@noalpha_allbeta) February 3, 2025
…. What's also a mess, after immigration, is the state of the German electrical grid, which is so dire, so unreliable, so dependent on outside backup electricity, and so expensive that it has caused the deindustrialization of the once-upon-a-time manufacturing juggernaut of Europe.
The things that made Germany and what Germany made are now shallow husks of better times.
An unexpectedly cold winter with extended periods of the dreaded dunkelflaute - or dreary days with little to no wind - has brought that home to the wind and solar-dependent country.
For a nation so proud of their self-sacrifice at the altar of decarbonization, it would appear they're killing themselves for nothing.
Renewable = Intermittent Energy
— Dan Tsubouchi (@Energy_Tidbits) February 11, 2025
Coal saving the day with Germany unseasonal low wind generation.
Persistent windless weather led German coal plants to fill the gap, ramp up output to ~8.1 GW this Thurs, highest since Feb 2024" 👇@EamonFarhat.#NatGas also a big winner.#OOTT https://t.co/RXDiZ8Npqj pic.twitter.com/EIlxLhrPVL
"German electricity grid is today more weather dependent than ever"
— Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) February 8, 2025
When no wind and sun, Germany sucks the power from everyone else, driving up costs
Norway, Sweden, France, Austria, Poland sick of "paying the cost of a failed German energy policy"https://t.co/AvrgEfEjyd pic.twitter.com/TY8vLNRiVJ
Slowly but surely everyone finds out that Germany's stupid energy policies are not just a German problem.
— Ralph Schoellhammer (@Raphfel) February 6, 2025
When madness reigns in Berlin, it always leads to suffering in the rest of Europe. This time will be no different.
Link: https://t.co/dntxykZHAE pic.twitter.com/SwMpM3K6r8