PAUL HOMEWOOD
Another windfarm surpasses £1 billion in subsidy payments
The Beatrice Offshore Windfarm has become the fourth windfarm to have received more than £1 billion in subsidy payments. The landmark was reached in just its seventh year of operation, suggesting that it could reach £2 billion over the course of its subsidy agreement.
Beatrice, situated in the Moray Firth, cost £2.2 billion to construct. Thus consumer levies will pay for almost the entire cost of the windfarm. The profits are ultimately shared by SSE plc and the Danish investment house, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
Net Zero Watch has condemned the waste. Its director Andrew Montford said:
“This level of subsidy is obscene. The Westminster machine is hosing down the green lobby with our money. The consumer interest is nowhere to be seen.”
Richard Tice, deputy leader of Reform UK said:
“Renewable energy subsidies are making people poorer with higher bills. Businesses are less competitive, meaning less growth and fewer jobs. Reform would put a windfall tax on all renewables to the value of the subsidies. We need to copy the US plan and ‘drill baby drill’ to make people better off.”
Wind Power Disappears in Germany and UK
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 Britain:
We relied heavily on imports, which averaged 18% of total supply. But winds were also light across Germany and the Low Countries. Could we rely on getting electricity from Europe when they too have shut most of their fossil fuel plants down?
During that same period, wind power in Germany dropped to dangerously low levels. On the 6th, for example, wind was supplying just 1% of Germany’s electricity, as low as 1 GW. The country has about 70 GW of wind power capacity, which means that on most days that week, wind was running at less than 1% of capacity.
https://www.energymonitor.ai/power/live-eu-electricity-generation-map/?cf-view&cf-closed
We can forget about solar power in Germany or elsewhere in Europe, as they are not going to store it for us to use in early evening. And as the chart shows, Germany was getting most of its power from coal and gas during that week.
Other countries like Belgium, Holland and Denmark will have experienced similar issues with wind power.
Even if we, Germany and the others triple wind capacity, it would make little difference. Three times nothing is still nothing.
And we cannot all rely on nuclear power from France and hydro from Norway – there is simply not enough to go round.
Meanwhile the blind carry on leading the blind.
Lord Moynihan of Chelsea demands cost-benefit analysis of Net Zero
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