Wind power, flattened mountain ridges, collapsed towers

Nabas wind farm, Aklan, Philippines, near world-famous Boracay beach resorts. About 2 kms. long of mountain ridges “planted” with huge wind turbines. Road construction stage before the wind turbines were erected. All trees removed, jagged ridges flattened and widened, so that lots of huge trucks — cement mixers, 18-wheeler haulers carrying steel and wind blades, …

Expensive electricity + mandatory renewables, Philippine case

This is section IV of my presentation, Climate change and the need for cheaper and stable energy sources during the Energy Policy Development Program (EPDP) Conference 2016 last week, January 12-13 at the New World Hotel in Makati. The paper by Dr. Wali del Mundo of electricity prices in ASEAN countries was repeatedly used by various presenters, …

US energy subsidies and global energy consumption

Another outstanding and critical posting in http://wattsupwiththat.com/ by Willis Eschenbach, Thirty Years of Subsidies, November 5, 2015. He pointed at the US federal government energy subsidies — in the US alone (EU, Canada, Japan, etc. not included), in 2013 alone (previous years not included). Subsidies to coal + nat gas + nuke = $5.1 billion. Subsidies to …

Low capacity factor of wind, solar and biomass plants

For the lovers of “renewable energy only to save the planet”, see this chart. Official data from the PH Electricity Market Corp. (PEMC), the one managing the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM). Solar would give us zero electricity from 7pm to 6am, zero electricity for our houses and offices, streets and highways, for 11 hours. …

Corrupted wind energy policy in Germany

* Posted on June 07, 2015. Two chilling news from No Tricks Zone about environmental militance and deception  in German.The first article was published on May 26, 2015, and the second  article was posted on March 21, 2014. The first paper is an example of “regulatory capture”, wind lobbyists writing the renewables cronyism law in one state in Germany. …

More on expensive renewables in Germany

* Originally posted on December 30, 2014. Another compilation of news reports and charts here, about the costly and unreliable electricity from renewables despite all the subsidies. (1) From Spiegel International, September 4, 2013. Altmaier and others are on a mission to help people save money on their electricity bills, because they’re about to receive some …

UK’s expensive renewables

* Originally posted on November 24, 2014. Some not-so-good news for the subsidize-renewables and  climate alarmism movement. (1) From Sunday Express, October 15, 2014: The green crusade of successive governments is set to double electricity bills for households and cost homes £26 billion a year by 2030, it was claimed yesterday. “The cost of renewable energy and …

Germany’s renewables, collapsing windmills

* Originally posted on October 22, 2014. Germany’s renewable energy is causing lots of instability in their national grid. See this story from  NTZ, 24 September 2014, EIKE: German Power Grid More Vulnerable Than Ever…”On The Brink Of Widespread Blackouts”! “As a result, today’s German power grid has become a precarious balancing act, and keeping it …

Projected PH power deficit in early 2015

* Originally posted on September19, 2014. Independent think tank, Stratbase Research Institute (SRI) published yesterday my paper, “Energy and Rice Deficiency: Reform Challenges for the Last Quarter of the Aquino Administration.” I uploaded the paper in my slideshare account, 11 pages, check it there. For this article, I will only discuss the part on power and …

Wind power, FIT and other renewables subsidy

* Originally posted on April 23, 2014. The problem with militant environmentalism, case of Oriental Mindoro (including Puerto Galera, Calapan). With occasional brown outs and high electricity cost, a wind power company will supply power at P8,20/kwh. But the distribution utility (DU), Oriental Mindoro Electric Cooperative (ORMECO) will pay the genco only P6.50/kwh. The difference of …