Governments are struggling to keep their net zero policies on track as the cost of energy keep on rising and the public are becoming more and more aware of it. Without subsidies private companies will not invest in wind farms as can be seen here:
Dutch Cancel Offshore Wind Auction Due To Lack Of Interest | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
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May 19, 2025 at 01:30AM
Climate Solutions, “accelerating the transition to our clean energy future,” has its annual dinner this Tuesday night. This is your chance to visit with leaders of the Climate Industrial Complex, rich and bossy with a strong desire to pick the pocket of local, state, and national taxpayers.
With billions of DOE dollars held in escrow, Jigar Shah will provide the latest coordinates of where the gold bricks landed that were thrown off the Titanic. No talk title was given, so I’ll suggest one: “Monetizing the Unearned: Podesta/Biden Energy Policy by the Billions.” This refers to the Inflation Reduction Act’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, $20 billion of which was rushed out the door with Trump’s electoral victory. Shah was at the controls of the legal looting.
Here is the official announcement:
Climate Solutions is excited to hold our Annual Dinner event in Seattle on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 5pm-8:30pm at the Westin Seattle with guest speaker Jigar Shah. Jigar is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and energy strategist. Shah most recently served as Director of the Loan Programs Office for the U.S. Department of Energy from March 2021 to January 2025.
The crony crowd is running scared, with the displaced Jigar Shah and a few others (Jennifer Granholm) hanging in there with lucrative green employment. But America has caught on. and easy federal budget cuts could result in a mass redeployment of resources to the real market, the free market, in the months ahead.
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May 19, 2025 at 01:01AM
From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
Now the Dutch are having trouble finding anyone willing to build offshore wind farms without massive subsidies, as Reuters report:
The Netherlands will postpone tenders for two offshore wind farms with a total capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW) due to a lack of interest from potential bidders, the Dutch government said on Friday.
The tenders had originally been planned for September. The government said it would now only open a tender for one location in the North Sea with a capacity of 1 GW then.
The Dutch Climate ministry said in March that interest for the three sites it wanted to tender was very low, after energy firms Eneco and Orsted had said they saw no viable business case without subsidies.
The government said it was still looking into ways to reintroduce subsidies in its tenders for offshore wind farms, as prospective bidders are backing out of the current “zero subsidy” model.
Full story here.
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May 19, 2025 at 12:05AM
On May 18, 1980 Mt. St. Helens blew its top May 27, 1980, page 42 – The Olympian at Newspapers.com
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