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- Renewables Subsidies Hit New August Record Mon, 30 Sep 24, 3:00pmThe addition of the newer, cheaper offshore wind farms has not had a significant impact on the subsidy per MWh. The reduction in average strike price has been overwhelmed by a combination of the indexation upwards in April...
- Wind turbines taller than skyscrapers to march across British countryside Mon, 12 Aug 24, 3:00pmOnPath, formerly known as Banks Renewables, was granted permission for 10 machines up to 823ft tall at New Cumnock in East Ayrshire, despite opposition from locals and the campaign group Scotland Against Spin (SAS) which...
- Press release: Labour’s wind plans will be ‘astonishingly wasteful’ Wed, 10 Jul 24, 7:00pmThe UK wholesale market is seeing a rapidly rising number of periods of overproduction, and this is thought to be the main reason that offshore windfarms demanded, and received, a 60% price increase in the renewables auctions.
- “I’ll Take On the Wind Farm Nimbys From Day One” Says Ed Milliband Mon, 24 Jun 24, 3:00pmThe Shadow Energy Secretary pledged a Labour Government will overturn planning rules that currently require local community support to approve proposed turbines.
- Offshore Wind “Wake Effect” Sat, 1 Jun 24, 4:00amFrom MasterResource By Robert Bradley Jr. The media bias in favor of industrial wind turbines is a sight to behold. Simple reporting of the facts, from costs to environmental tradeoffs,…
- Wind Power Drops By A Third In Q3 Sun, 2 Jan 22, 5:00amWe are familiar with short term drops in output, maybe for a few days or even weeks. But to lose effectively a third of generation for a whole quarter shows just how dangerous over reliance on wind power is.
- Excess costs of UK Weather Dependent Renewable Energy: 2018 Sun, 1 Dec 19, 1:00pmReposted from edmhdotme Summary: 2018 using Renewable Energy Foundation data In 2018 UK Weather dependent renewables generated some 7.7 Gigawatts of power from an installed fleet of ~34 Gigawatts achieving a satisfactory...
- Ben & Jerry's backs onshore wind farms with gusty ice cream names Thu, 14 Jun 18, 6:00amCherry Gale-cia, anyone? How about some Strawberry Breeze-cake or Caramel Blew Blew? Ice cream company Ben & Jerry's has tweaked the names of some popular flavors with a gusty twist to rally support for onshore wind...
- IEA Predicts 40 Percent World-Wide Increase of Renewable Energy Usage by 2017 Wed, 11 Jul 12, 1:20amThe International Energy Agency (IEA) just published an optimistic prediction for the future of renewable energy, suggesting that world-wide green energy usage will increase by forty percent or more by 2017...
- Renewable and fossil electricity generation costs compared Tue, 28 Dec 10, 6:02amTo reduce fossil fuel use in electricity generation, the implementation of renewable energy is supported via subsidies or market mechanisms in many countries...