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Well Hidden and Distorted Costs of Renewables: A Comprehensive Comparison of Wind Power and Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Plant
Author: Ciccone, Terigi
I. Introduction: The Critical Need for Reliable Power in an Electrified World Wind power looks cheap on paper thanks to metrics like LCOE, but making it as reliable and robust as a natural gas plant requires massive overbuilds, backups, and infrastructure—ballooning actual total system costs by 5-40 times higher. Here’s the full breakdown. Consider the following scenarios: A hospital operating room loses power during a complex surgery, causing monitors to fail and life-support systems to shut down, endangering patients in . . .
More »Renewable Energy Honeymoon: starting is easy, the rest is hard
Author: Hilton, Zoe; Wu, Michael; and Morrison, Aidan
Executive Summary The belief that Australia can decarbonise its economy by relying on the wind and the sun rests on a misplaced conviction about what the renewables rollout will entail. The idea that our previous accomplishments should encourage further persistence depends on the presupposition that the transition to renewables benefits from gathering momentum. Advocates point to the increase in wind and solar from 1.5% of our electricity share in 2010 to around 33% today as a success, and evidence that . . .
More »Energies renouvelables : entre pression fiscale et précarité
Author: Riou, Jean-Pierre
[Renewable energies: between tax pressure and precariousness] La fiscalité énergétique Dans les pays de l’OCDE, le ratio impôts/PIB s’échelonnait en 2023 de 17.7 % au Mexique à 43.8 % en France. La répartition sociale permet cependant à 54,1% (en 2022) des foyers fiscaux français d’être dispensés du prélèvement obligatoire de l’impôt sur le revenu. Mais pour autant, le financement du gouffre sans fond de la transition énergétique fait injustement porter le plus gros effort sur les plus pauvres, et tout particulièrement sur . . .
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Benefits and Risks of an Offshore Wind Project – The Atlantic Shores South Project off the New Jersey Coast Save Long Beach Island
Author: Save Long Beach Island
Myth and Fact Regarding the Atlantic Shores South Project off Long Beach Island (LBI) and Brigantine, NJ There has been and continues to be much misinformation about the benefits and damage from offshore wind projects. Based on Save LBI’s professional-level research over the past four years regarding the Atlantic Shores project, we provide below what we believe represents both the unfounded and well founded information regarding that project. Many of the issues for that project are found in others. We . . .
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