SolaR does wonders for Big Green

[Manonthestreet]

For the joy of unreliable energy you get to pay and pay and pay.
Solar panels are so unproductive that they generate barely 1 per cent of all our electricity
10 per cent of their total 6.5 gigawatt (GW) capacity. Dr John Constable of the Renewable Energy Foundation sent me a National Grid graph showing what happened on April 11 when solar power shot up from nothing to 3.7 gigawatts, before falling back again within a few hours to nothing. As part of its actions to accommodate that solar surge, the grid had to pay out £500,000 – much of it to compensate wind farms for switching off 2.5GW of their power.

We cannot expect the renewable-infatuated BBC to explain that we thus pay three times over: first for the subsidised solar power; secondly to the windfarms for their power we don’t use; and thirdly a bit extra to compensate them for the fact that we are not using it. The triple bill we pay for solar power - Telegraph

 

[Mr. H.]

Such is the ever more surreal world we are being carried into by the Government’s crazed drive to “decarbonise” our economy.



You think that we'd learn a lesson from this. But not with The Kenyan Kunt in the White House.

 

[Old Rocks]

Now if those ultra-liberal Texans would just quit buying solar by the Gigawatt.

 

[ScienceRocks]

And this is why solar is killing coal!!! haha!