Germany plans to stop building new wind farms by 2019, gradually turning away from its $1.1 trillion wind power program, according to a Thursday report in Berliner Zeitung.
The government plans to cap the total amount of wind energy at 40 to 45 percent of national capacity, according to the report. By 2019, this policy would cause a massive reduction of 6,000 megawatts of wind power capacity compared to the end of 2015’s capacity.
“The domestic market for many [wind turbine] manufacturers collapses completely,” Julia Verlinden, a spokesperson for the German Green Party, told Berliner Zeitung. “With their plan, the federal government is killing the wind companies.” Verlinden goes on to blame the political influence of “old, fossil fuel power plants.”
h/t TimR
Big hooray on any wind energy scam from being further foisted upon us. Money sucking, eye sore birds killers – proves it’s not about nature for these Gaia worshipers.
Now this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3531956/2bn-fiasco-huge-recycling-plant-dumped-Hundreds-workers-facing-sack-PFI-facility-shut-leaving-thousands-tons-waste-destined-landfill.html
And recycling isn’t ‘voluntary’ there. What a scam as they burn Canadian wood pellets as augment to their electric grid.
Now in QC their running PS commercials pleading for the peons to ‘rinse’ their recycle containers. Here in Ont on well water, we can’t afford to support this pampering of garbage program – if they don’t take it we burn it. Cycle of carbon life such as it is. 🙂
“By 2019, this policy would cause a massive reduction of 6,000 megawatts of wind power capacity…”
Lefties are so funny. Should say: “…massive reduction of 6,000 wishful megawatts…” or “…massive reduction of 6,000 fantasy megawatts…” or just “massive reduction of 6,000 unicorn megafarts…”
“Verlinden goes on to blame the political influence of ‘old, fossil fuel power plants.'”
The political influence of the utilitarian rather than the utopian, in other words.
It’s okay. They’ll make up for it by burning ‘dirty’ lignite brown coal instead but at least no tsunamis will affect them like they would nuke plants.
I suppose the cronies of the corrupt politicians have milked this market for all it will bear,(and people ARE freezing to death every Winter), so it’s time to shut it all down before the natives get too restless.
6000 megawatts? Bullsh**! What did they really produce?
They should define capacity. For instance “40-45% of capacity”. Wind only produces about 25-30% of capacity. Solar even less. So, that’s about 10-15% of electricity actually produced. But because it’s intermittent it 1) must have 100% backup by a combination of conventional power and imports 2)makes conventional electricity unprofitable because green sources must be used first. Capping wind and solar at 40-45% capacity is probably still too high to maintain a stable grid and affordable, reliable electricity. I suspect Germany will quietly let the proportion of wind and solar sink even further over time.
Not that this matters. People who believe climate change is catastrophic and/or have fallen in love with green energy have no interest in limitations or failures of green energy. They live in a world of hypothetical, utopian scenarios.
…government is killing the wind companies…
Not really. More like allowing them to die a natural death.
“The government plans to cap the total amount of wind energy at 40 to 45 percent of national capacity, according to the report. By 2019, this policy would cause a massive reduction of 6,000 megawatts of wind power capacity compared to the end of 2015’s capacity.’
Ah yes, capacity. Wind power capacity could be reduced to 1mw because without consequence because every watt of power it provides is necessarily backed up by baseload infrastructure currently in place, ie coal or nuclear. A modern economy can’t run on a wind turbine/solar power grid because, notwithstanding their horrendous cost, pure waste and crony interjection, modern society cannot go without power because it’s cloudy out with no wind.
One area blows while the other doesn’t? How’s that working out? I saw a documentary about an African village clinic, powered by solar. You could the lights, fridge or incubator, but never at the same time. That’s part of why Africa is not developing as it should given its natural resources. Their crony corrupted are lining up for their personal climate rent payoff, but not for their people, useful pawns to be used as funding debate while trapped in poverty & servitude.
In modern(izing) economies, intermittent, unpredictable wind and solar power are useless. China has seen the light and will only sell wind turbines, not use them; that’s for western suckers. Battery technology had to be the first thing developed or wind and solar are virtually useless. Solar could be worthwhile later, wind will never be due to its obvious limitations, cost and use of precious land and mineral resources.
To those who say Denmark gets 42% of it’s electrical generation from wind, consider it only provides 5% of total power requirements, despite a massive investment. They could build it out to 100% of needed “capacity,” and it would still have to be fully backed up. By the time battery technologies catches up, something infinitely better than wind will have been developed, IOW energy technology that has at least a snowball’s chance in h*** of ever becoming economically viable.
So, let’s be clear on our future. Wind is a con technology. How do con artists act when confronted with reality? They get hostile and want the argument stopped immediately. How far removed is that from threatening to vilify, even jail those who do not stay “on message?”
Neither wind or solar are meeting their expectations anywhere in the world as documented in this detailed report.
http://www.theenergycollective.com/willem-post/169521/wind-turbine-energy-capacity-less-estimated
No problem ! Just throw another log on the fire. Maybe the Germans can start burning dung, like all those noble 3rd worlders ? How about hooking up their iPads to bicycle generators ? Not so tough now without your fancy technology, now are you ! Go ahead Germany … go ALL IN on your green dream. After all, it’s what all your voters want ! Along with millions of Muzlum m-i-g-r-a-n-t-s …
On the contrary … reality is causing the collapse of the millennia old technology of windmills … I can barely type this with a straight face. The whole idea of windmills to supply power for 7 billion wogs who have no idea why they are even here … is astounding ….
Other people’s money
no more ….
“The domestic market for many [wind turbine] manufacturers collapses completely,”
Not to worry Ont is still on track to generate x % of power by “renewables” as long as Wynne can hold on to her power. NDP today confirmed the lunatic Leap Forward to be worthy of study. There are still plenty of suckers about
gullible to wind energy scams.
The story has been removed from the website!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obviously it did not fit in with the benign refugee view propagated by the media. So it had to go.
Truth is secondary to proving the view of the ‘good’ Muslim.
PV Solar and Wind Turbines cause more toxic pollution than the oil sands.
The city-sized Baogang Steel and Rare Earth complex dominates the horizon, its endless cooling towers and chimneys reaching up into grey, washed-out sky. Between it and me, stretching into the distance, lies an artificial lake filled with a black, barely-liquid, toxic sludge.
Dozens of pipes line the shore, churning out a torrent of thick, black, chemical waste from the refineries that surround the lake. The smell of sulphur and the roar of the pipes invades my senses. It feels like hell on Earth.
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Even before getting to the toxic lake, the environmental impact the rare earth industry has had on the city is painfully clear. At times it’s impossible to tell where the vast structure of the Baogang refineries complex ends and the city begins. Massive pipes erupt from the ground and run along roadways and sidewalks, arching into the air to cross roads like bridges. The streets here are wide, built to accommodate the constant stream of huge diesel-belching coal trucks that dwarf all other traffic.
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You may not have heard of Baotou, but the mines and factories here help to keep our modern lives ticking. It is one of the world’s biggest suppliers of “rare earth” minerals. These elements can be found in everything from magnets in wind turbines and electric car motors, to solar panels, to the electronic guts of smartphones and flatscreen TVs. In 2009 China produced 95% of the world’s supply of these elements, and it’s estimated that the Bayan Obo mines just north of Baotou contain 70% of the world’s reserves. But, at what cost?
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-earth
This decision regarding wind power generation and the decision by the German government last fall to eliminate the solar panel subsidies signals the realization that these two massive utopian “green” power generation efforts were failures at a cost of trillions of dollars and hurt the taxpayers of Germany, particularly the lower income ones.
Meanwhile the stupid leftist unicorn fart crowd here is going full steam ahead. Taxpayer and affordable power generation be dammed.