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They knew a decade ago - "... Battery technology is not yet at the stage where it can fully absorb that firming need and requirement. ..."

Bill McKibben is desperate. Instead of accepting reality, he continues his magical thinking of wind and solar dominance. But as James Hansen, the father of the alarm, stated:

"... Up to now, the solution has been to build more storage or curtail generation. Both approaches can work, but both can also be expensive. ..."

NESO issued yet another Electricity Margin Notice for yesterday evening’s peak period, with low winds and solar power dropping away:

Al Gore still stuck in green conspiracy land. The post Al Gore: “The day is coming when our [Renewable Energy] momentum will overtake the resistance. We’re getting very close now” appeared first on Watts Up...

Blaming government infrastructure failures on nuclear energy.

Daniel Wetzel in Die Welt (paid article) on a phenomenon: more and more plants are being put into operation, but the yield does not increase to the same extent.

So what is the point of solar panels? The post Claim: Climate Change Could Make Hailstorms Worse appeared first on Watts Up With That?.

I hope that the power of social media exemplified by Alexandra Fasulo can bring this to the attention of enough New Yorkers that the policies can be changed to protect the environment and interests of the local communities...

Britain needs an honest national conversation about what its energy future actually requires — one grounded not in what is fashionable or financially convenient, but in the austere realities of northern latitude, Atlantic...

What does it actually cost to keep the lights on, reliably, 24/7/365 year after year?

“The continued reliance on ‘clean’ energy tax credits is a political crutch…. Those who have introduced this legislation … should be working to phase out these subsidies more quickly, not doubling down on them.”...

In Episode 22 of ‪@cfact‬‘s Conservation Country video series, host ‪@GabriellaHoffman‬ travels to Eastern Oklahoma to learn about the region’s fight against wind industrialization...

Nobody in their right mind would have designed such a system. Unfortunately by the time of the next election, most of the damage will be irreversible.

“The record negative prices are the market’s loudest warning signal that we have an oversupply of unstable generation, but a dramatic lack of flexibility and storage capacity,” Klimanachrichten summarizes.