The truth about the extremely high costs of Green
Renewable energy is out, as is the truth that there will never be lasting
viable Green jobs and now the Renewables industry is in meltdown.
Britain is cutting the morally wrong Green tax called a Feed in Tariff from
December 12th 2011 for solar installations and now other countries are
following suit.
Spain was the first economy in Europe to jump on the Green Renewables farce and
quickly found that every Green job created cost 2.2 jobs in existing profitable
businesses, now it is looking likely that Spain is about to abandon the
insanity of prohibitively expensive Green energy
Spain’s likely new centre-right government plans a major overhaul of the energy
sector, possibly axing subsidies for wind and solar power as the euro zone debt
crisis makes funding very costly.
The centre-right People’s Party is expected to win a Nov. 20 election by a wide
margin and gain control of the lower house. Party leader Mariano Rajoy has
repeatedly signalled he will reform the energy sector, without giving details.
Spain’s huge rollout of renewable energy made it a world leader in the sector
and reduced its dependence on imported fuel, but the result is debt-laden
utilities and consumers facing crippling rate hikes to pay for power stations
they are hardly using.
“We can’t afford high-cost energy and the government can’t continue to bet on
extremely expensive sources of energy for Spanish households,” said Jaime
Legaz, head of the People’s Party’s FAES think tank.
Chopping subsidies for new renewable power plants would stop the debt mountain
growing and allow consumer energy prices to rise gradually instead of suddenly,
smoothing the adjustment to paying true costs for electricity.
Lower renewable subsidies would also free up cash for utilities to invest in
the PP’s pet project to boost power connections with the rest of Europe, which
would help reduce over-capacity in the energy sector and stimulate investment.
Big power groups have recently stepped up pressure on the incoming government
to tackle a deficit of over 20 billion euros they accumulated by selling power
at regulated tariffs too low to cover costs for 10 years.
Unlike Germany, which passed the cost of renewable directly onto the consumer,
Spain deferred them by obliging utilities to hold these costs on their balance
sheets as a state-backed debt known as the “tariff deficit”, promising the
consumer would repay this debt through gradual increases in electricity bills.
The Socialist government, expected to lose badly in the election after seven
years in power, reached a deal with utilities companies last year to eliminate
the tariff deficit.
A Socialist government and the Green wealth redistribution agenda, no surprises
there, it was a Labour Socialist government under Tony Blair who signed Britain
up for all sorts of Green lunacy and energy poverty for millions, so Blair
could force expensive Renewable energy on the people of Britain.
To put that into perspective it was Blair who said in the run up to COP15 in
Copenhagen “The world must take action on climate change…even if the science is
not correct“, in other words lets proceed with Climate Religion as the means
for wealth redistribution and one world government by the UN.
In Europe analysts and energy experts are predicting a return to conventional
affordable energy cutting short the dash for unaffordable Green energy:
Analysts and industry experts see a return of conventional power and imports
rather than a wide-ranging government-backed expansion of renewable power.
Three of Europe’s top renewable energy companies became the latest victims of a
global collapse in prices, massive oversupply and governments slashing
subsidies in light of growing debt piles, echoing recent comments from overseas
peers.
SolarWorld, Q-Cells and Nordex are among the latest renewable energy companies
to be hit by a mix of high inventories, slower demand and banks tightening
their purses regarding wind parks.
Solar companies in particular suffered as they ramped up production last year
to meet a surge in demand from Germany and Italy where customers rushed to buy
solar panels before governments cut vital subsidies.
Both economies are reducing so-called feed-in tariffs to make the solar sector
more productive, and subsidies and prices have been falling at a faster rate
than manufacturing costs, leading Germany’s renewable elite to slash their 2011
outlooks
Britain, Italy and Germany all cutting the Green taxes that make solar
economically viable, little wonder that many business analysts reckon that the
solar industry, globally, will have ceased to exist by 2015. In Denmark their new Socialist development minister was
caught out being a duplicitous Green hypocrite:
Green energy policies currently being pursued are not helping the environment
or the economy. More likely, they will lead to greater emissions in China, more
outsourcing to India, and lower growth rates for the well-intentioned “green” countries.
When
Denmark’s new government ministers presented themselves to Queen Margrethe II
last month, the incoming development minister established his green credentials
by rolling up to the palace in a tiny, three-wheeled, electric-powered vehicle.
The photo opportunity made a powerful statement about the minister’s commitment
to the environment—but probably not the one he intended.
Christian Friis Bach’s electric-powered vehicle was incapable of covering the
30 kilometers from his house to the palace without running out of power. So he
put the electric minicar inside a horse trailer and dragged it behind his
gasoline-powered Citroën for three-quarters of the trip, switching back to the
minicar when he neared the television cameras. The stunt produced more carbon
emissions than if he had ditched the electric car and horse trailer and driven
a regular car the entire distance.
Another Green socialist hypocrite caught out yet again.
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