Any country that signed up to the subsidised wind and solar scam is facing the inevitable power pricing and supply calamity that follows. Now that they’re facing the inevitable backlash from taxpayers and power consumers (ie voters), many of those same countries are quietly crab walking away from the avoidable disasters they created. The outbreak of energy sanity is most evident in the USA, thanks to its 47^th President.

With hard-left lunatics in charge, Australia is not so fortunate, which brings us to this week’s roundup.

Alan Moran reports on the crash in productivity and prosperity being caused by Australia’s ludicrously generous subsidies to wind and solar that have provided the perfectly predictable and perfectly avoidable power pricing and supply calamity the country now suffers.

Renewable energy is doomed
Substack
Alan Moran
26 June 2025

In this deatiled 36-page report, Sarah Montalbano provides a compendious overview of every fault and failing attached to chaotically intermittent and heavily subsidised wind and solar. It’s is the kind of document you can share with friends and enemies to make the point that this site has been making since December 2012.

Shattered Green Dreams: The Enviromental Costs of Wind and Solar
American Experiment
Sarah Montalbano
June 2025

Vijay Jayaraj makes the point that reliable and affordable energy delivers peace and prosperity, which, in turn, means utilising our more than abundant hydrocarbon resources.

Global Turmoil Proves Urgency of Energy Independence
CO2 Coalition
Vijay Jayaraj
23 June 2025

Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtisreport on America’s nuclear power generation renaissance, being driven by Donald J Trump and the President’s recent executive orders which remove a suite of regulatory obstacles faced by cleanest and most reliable generation source, of all.

The Trump administration advocates for nuclear power
America Out Loud
Ronald Stein, Oliver Hemmers and Steve Curtis
23 June 2025

Paul Homewood reports on the fact that, just like subsidised wind scammers, their solar subsidy scamming comrades are being paid a small fortune to produce absolutely nothing at all, with British taxpayers and power consumers, as always, picking up the tab.

Solar Farms Paid To Switch Off
Not a Lot of People Know That
Paul Homewood
6 July 2025

The team from Jo Nova details the revolt brewing among Australia’s real farmers – agricultural producers refuse to be more ‘road-kill’ victims of the great wind and solar fraud, denying wind and solar scammers access to their productive farmland, thereby preventing the construction of high voltage power lines upon which the greatest scam in history depends.

$4b billion VNI Interconnector delayed 2 years, facing mass farmer protests
Jo Nova Blog
Jo Nova
8 July 2025

In the video below, one such primary producer from the Peoples’ Republic of Victoria spells out the threat they face from a Stalinist bureaucracy ready to strip farmers of their property rights to ram through their suicidal energy policies.

Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.

From THE DAILY CALLER

Daisy Roser
Contributor

Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley announced Thursday that the Department of Energy (DOE) is canceling its Grain Belt Express project.

Hawley’s X post announcing the DOE’s decision to cancel the project followed a conversation with President Donald Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. The post also called the Grain Belt Express a “green scam” that is “costing taxpayers BILLIONS.” (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Report Urges Trump To Slam Shut Key Green Energy Loophole In Signature Law)

The Grain Belt Express was a $11 billion transmission line project designed to carry electricity from wind farms in Kansas across Missouri and Illinois to Indiana. “Energy demand is growing – our grid needs an upgrade,” the project’s website states, “No other project saves consumers more.”

The Grain Belt Express line faced investigation by Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office in early July. A press release from Bailey’s office stated that the investigation stemmed from “widespread concerns over misleading claims and a track record of dishonesty.”

“We will not allow a private corporation to trample property rights and mislead regulators for a bait and switch that serves out-of-state interests instead of Missourians,” Bailey said in the July 2 press release.

🚨BREAKING: I am conducting an investigation into the Grain Belt Express transmission line, a nearly $5 billion green energy scam that won’t serve Missourians and is built on false promises. pic.twitter.com/xrgqT3nx5P

— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) July 2, 2025

The investigation, a Civil Investigative Demand (CID), pointed out the dependence of the Grain Belt Express upon “speculative and possibly fraudulent assumptions,” including a made-up carbon tax that “was never enacted by Missouri or federal law and does not exist.”

The use of this fictitious “carbon tax” in projecting supposed benefits of the project “more than likely” inflated the value predicted for Missouri consumers, according to Bailey’s formal letter to the Chair of the Missouri Public Service Commission. The predicted benefits included $52 billion in energy cost savings over 15 years, according to the Grain Belt Express Website.

Hawley’s announcement follows several Trump administration cuts to expensive green energy projects since taking office.

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By Vijay Jayaraj

You wake up to an alarm, flick on the light, brew coffee, and drive to work. Every step requires energy – the stuff that shares the coin of physical reality with matter, the E in E = MC².  It keeps homes warm, food fresh and economies running.

Supplying 80% of the world’s primary energy, coal, oil and natural gas make up the lifeblood of modern civilization. Yet, there continue to be calls for the abandonment of these fuels without any feasible, scalable replacement in sight.

It is dishonest for “green” lobbyists to claim that electricity from wind and solar can replace fossil fuels, when currently most of the energy used in the world is not even in the form of electricity.

Electricity represents only about 20% of global final energy consumption. That means four-fifths of the world’s energy use comes from fuels that power ships, planes, trucks and industrial furnaces. Oil fuels vehicles, natural gas provides heat for homes and industry, and coal is critically important for the manufacture of steel from iron.

Demand for hydrocarbons is expected to exceed that of electricity for many decades.

You’ve probably heard it before: “Solar and wind are now cheaper than fossil fuels.” This is a falsehood supported by a misleading metric – the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE). When Mark Twain spoke of “lies, damn lies and statistics,” he had LCOE in mind.

LCOE purports to present an apples-to-apples comparison between various energy sources. However, the measure is meaningless because it ignores key costs such as those of providing backup power to compensate for the intermittency of solar and wind. Something must be available to step up when the wind and sun are not available for power generation.

While it may be true that sunshine and wind are “free,” converting them to a form of energy that works with modern power grids and integrating them into the 24-hour operation of electrical systems supplying millions of customers is difficult and expensive.

A 2022 study by Robert Idel exposes LCOE’s flaws.

First, LCOE assumes constant output, but solar and wind produce only 20%-30% of their designed capacity, compared to 80%-90% for plants running on coal, natural gas or nuclear fuel.

This commentary was first published by RealClearMarkets on July 7, 2025.

Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the CO₂ Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an M.S. in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the U.K., and a bachelor’s in engineering from Anna University, India.