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Michael Shanks, the Energy Minister, told the House of Lords Environment Committee that the next auction was being put on hold so that the CfD programme could be reformed.

The state that spent three decades celebrating wind turbines now pays a premium for the one quality they cannot offer – on-demand dispatchability.

German power averaged €13 a megawatt-hour on Sunday, October 25, when renewables briefly supplied more than the country used and Fraunhofer's Energy-Charts posted a record...

They claim they have a safety margin of 5.9 GW, but this all but disappears when wind power is taken out.

Forcing a rapid fossil phase-out before we have engineered substitutes doesn’t eliminate these processes, it simply offshores them to countries with weaker labour, environmental and emissions standards.

The British consumer has been forced over the last two decades to pay a staggering £274 billion (at 2025 prices) to support electricity generated from renewable sources.

You can buy more and more of these things, but they just produce more and more electricity that you don’t need (and must discard) on a breezy summer day, and nothing on a cold winter night when you need it the most.

In August 2025, Steven Nowakowski took my husband, Bruce, and me on an incursion into a wind turbine installation on a ridge in Australia’s wild far north, to show us what they ignore.

For years, utility companies have pursued a reckless strategy of prematurely retiring their reliable, affordable coal plants while pretending that a combination of wind, solar, and storage could replace their dependable capacity.

...places like New York, California, Germany and the UK continue to plow forward as if wind/solar/storage electricity systems can work. It’s as if it’s not possible to learn from experience.

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...