"The National Environmental Museum and Education Center, located at the EPA headquarters in Washington, D.C., is the most “propagandized” government site you can imagine."
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April 27, 2025 at 03:46AM
By Paul Homewood
John Cullen suggested a go-to resource for up to date data on renewable energy costs and subsidies.
So I have knocked this together for starters, and I will try and update it quarterly.
It is tagged under “environmental levies”
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Let’s start with a table you are probably familiar with – the OBR’s projections of Environmental Levies. The three direct subsidy mechanisms are highlighted. On top of these, of course, are indirect subsidies, such as the cost of providing standby (Capacity Market) and grid balancing.
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Renewables Obligation
Starting with Renewables Obligation, DESNZ have latest data up to Dec 2024, at which time the cumulative cost of subsidy had reached £65.8 billion since 2010.
The cost during 2024 totalled £7.1 billion on output of 76.1 TWh, about a quarter of UK supply. This works out at an average subsidy of £93/MWh for renewable generators, which is added to the market price they receive.
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Contracts for Difference
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Cumulative subsidy payments for CfDs have now risen to £10.0 billion since the scheme began in 2016. In the 12 months to March 2025, the cost was £2.2 billion.
Feed in Tariffs
OFGEM annual data is updated every November. Their latest costs are for 2023/24 and show a scheme cost of £1.8 billion for the year, and a total cost of £16.3 billion since 2010.
The total subsidy for 2023/24, which is most recent period with full data, came to £10.6 billion. Costs already identified now exceeded £90 billion since the various schemes began.
Including Capacity Market and grid balancing costs, we are looking at about £16 billion for this year.
Electricity supply totalled 273 TWh last year, so that £16 billion equates to £58.60/MWh, or 5.8 pence/kWh.
Given that the current energy price cap is set at 25.74p/kWh (pre-VAT), subsidies to renewables make up nearly a quarter of the price.
SOURCES & METHODOLOGY
1) ROCs :
The number of ROCs issued is listed here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/energy-trends-section-6-renewables
Buy out and recycle values are set by OFGEM here:
2) CfDs
All data from the LCCC:
https://dp.lowcarboncontracts.uk/dataset/actual-cfd-generation-and-avoided-ghg-emissions
3) FITs
https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications-library-feed-tariff-fit-scheme
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April 27, 2025 at 03:39AM
The great wind and solar scam was founded on lies, built on myth and runs on subsidies. But with Donald J Trump in the White House the scale of the fraud is finally being revealed and his concerted attack on the wind industry has rattled its very foundations.
Which brings us to the first of this week’s roundup, a piece by Thomas Catenacci, providing a timely update on Trump’s determined dismantling of America’s offshore wind industry, one subsidised environmental disaster after another.
Trump Admin Halts New York Offshore Wind Project, Orders Review of All Existing Biden-Era Wind Permits
Washington Free Beacon
Thomas Catenacci
16 April 2025
Chris Morrison reports on how gas is keeping the lights on in Britain, as yet another so-called ‘wind drought’ (once simply referred to as ‘calm weather’) brings its increasingly wind power dependent grid to the brink of collapse.
UK Electricity Grid Rescued by Gas as Massive Winter Wind Droughts Disrupt Supply
Daily Skeptic
Chris Morrison
18 April 2025
Neil Probert, one of the UK’s top electrical engineers, provides a timely analysis of why chaotically intermittent wind and solar are destroying the grid infrastructure in a way that only engineers might understand. Helpfully, Neil spells it out in clear and simple terms: uncontrollable power generation means voltage chaos which is causing the inevitable early destruction of transformers and other electricity distribution infrastructure.
Built to fail: the silent crisis in green infrastructure
Net Zero Watach
Neil Probert
25 April 2025
David Wojick reports on one of the more obscene aspects of the wind industry: its government-sanctioned license to kill anything on the wing, with rare and endangered Eagles among its prime targets.
Wind power is buying eagle-kill indulgences
CFACT
David Wojick
21 April 2025
Charles Rotter reports on a seismic shift in judicial attitudes to the wind industry in France – a French Court recently ordered the complete shutdown of one wind power outfit’s operation, and slapped it with a €200,000 fine, and whacked its director with a €40,000 fine as well, because one of its turbines managed to kill a protected golden eagle. That decision follows an earlier ruling where the Nîmes Court of Appeal ordered the demolition of another wind factory because it didn’t have a valid building permit. And fair enough, too.
The Blade Stops Here: France Holds Wind Industry Accountable at Last
Watts Up With That?
Charles Rotter
20 April 2025
Stay tuned, STT will be back next week with more.
via STOP THESE THINGS
April 27, 2025 at 02:34AM
Bad weather events exaggerated to sound like some sort of apocalypse. But will the public be fooled?
BBC Prefer Propaganda To Facts | NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
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April 27, 2025 at 01:46AM
