2022-01-24
With the ever higher costs associated with "green" wind farms and the ever longer cold windless spell that seems to have been cast of over our benighted Isles this winter, the news that ever-rising energy bills are driving ever-rising fuel poverty seems at last to be penetrating the hallowed halls of government.
Pushing the contractual costs of useless windmills into general taxation will not lighten the overall load on the people but will distribute it away from energy bills and onto everything else - so it's a small gain for some and a general loss all round (unless you happen to own a wind farm or two).
Is there no bad situation that the government cannot make worse through its pernicious meddling?
Still. perhaps, just perhaps, this may be the beginning of the end of the green policy delusions that make no economic sense, no political sense (beyond enabling certain political groups to grandstand their green credentials), and no environmental sense either. Of course, it does make a number of landowners an amount of taxpayers' money, independent of the power generated, but these guys tend to be in the minority.
Net Zero Watch has the story.
On the heels of this news comes a new analysis of the cost of wind "power" and how it has changed over the last 20 years since introduction of the Renewables Obligation. The Global Warming Policy Foundation bring us the glad tidings:
"The steady rise in onshore costs is thought to be due to windfarms being sited at progressively worse locations. In other words, the best sites are now all taken"
"The analysis, based on audited financial accounts and official generation data, throws into question claims from the wind industry that wind is becoming ever more competitive"
The simple fact that costs are escalating so is surely testament to the uncompetitive nature of wind power. After all, if we were getting more power from our pounds, why would our energy bills be rising so?
It isn't rocket science.
