Wind power

Transforming the world's energy system is a vast undertaking. Of colossal proportions.

Germany has spent a ton of money. The result? Its previously robust electricity grid is now broken.

How many birds should we slaughter in the name of saving the planet?

Energy from offshore wind just got a lot cheaper. The cost of subsidies for new offshore wind farms has halved to £57.50 per megawatt hour (MWh) since the last government auction in 2015, after two developers – Denmark’s Dong Energy and Spain’s EDP – bid aggressively for subsidy contracts to build new farms in 2022-23.
The results of the auction shocked industry analysts, who had expected prices to be around the £70-80 mark.

China has more than doubled its end-of-decade solar power target, with new installations dramatically outstripping expectation, according to the government’s energy agency.
By the end of July this year, China’s solar PV capacity topped 112GW, after installing a stunning 35GW in just seven months — more than twice as much as installed by any other country in all of 2016.
As a result, total solar PV capacity now exceeds the government’s 2020 goal of 105GW, set as recently as last year.

(ANTIMEDIA) India — Last week, Anti-Media reported on a recent economic forecast from Bloomberg, one that predicts the United States’ coal power capacity will be about half of what it is now by the year 2040.

In the dying days of 2016, three serious wind turbine malfunctions occurred in a small corner of Europe.

Boaters pass through a channel as the sun set behind wind mills and an oil refinery, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, in Corpus Christi, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
AUSTIN, Texas — On Tuesday, Donald Trump announced Rick Perry, the avowed climate change denier and former governor of Texas, is headed to the White House as the president-elect’s pick to head the Department of Energy.

Governments fund solar capacity in countries that receive little sun and install wind turbines in nations that get little wind.

Condemning people to grinding poverty is evil.