We Don't Need No Giant Whirlybird Fans

[Weatherman2020]

New data show Canadian investment in clean technology has cooled off over the past three years, despite myriad programs introduced by Ottawa to boost spending on green infrastructure and shift the country towards a lower carbon economy.

Canadian private sector investment in clean technologies have fallen by half since 2014, dropping to a combined US$9.4 billion over the past three years, compared with US$19.5 billion between 2012-2014, according to data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Investments rose to US$3.3 billion last year, compared to US$2.3 billion, but is less than half of the peak in 2014. Investments in the first two quarters of 2018 appear to be below the fourth-quarter running average, BNEF data shows. […]

“Any time you have a ratcheting down of subsidies, in the immediate aftermath you see a total destruction of the market,”said Amy Grace, head of North American research at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.


‘Total destruction of the market’: Investments in clean tech cool off as subsidies end

Doh!

 

[Old Rocks]

Launched in New Mexico this week — one of the rising stars of the US wind energy sector, adding wind power capacity at a faster rate in 2017 than any other state — the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) published its U.S. Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2017 report which highlighted the role wind energy is playing in the country’s rapid expansion towards low-carbon electricity generation.

According to this latest report, wind power generated 6.3% of US electricity in 2017. However, wind’s impact can be better seen in its role in states like Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, where it is generating over 30% of capacity. Looking further abroad, the report shows that more than 14 states are generating over 10% of electricity from wind. Overall, operating wind power capacity grew by 9% in 2017, with the installation of 7,017 megawatts (MW) worth of new capacity, bringing the country’s cumulative capacity up to 88,973 MW, or around 54,000 wind turbines operating in 41 states (as well as Guam and Puerto Rico).

US Wind Energy Now Supplies More Than 30% In Four States | CleanTechnica

Wind will continue it's explosive growth in the US. We have vast untapped resources available for this technology. When we get rid of the orange clown, it will go even faster.

 

[karpenter]

"...and shift the country towards a lower carbon economy."

And There You Have It
De-Industrialization

Most Of Populated Canada
Lies Along The NE Canadian And State's Border
With Canada's Total Population Of About 37 Million
And Their Green Can't Swing That Profitably

At Least Canada Didn't Wait Until
This Pie-In-The-Sky LSD Dream Of Green
Started To Wreck Things
Per Greece, Spain And Germany

In Kansas
A Judge Ordered The Dis-Mantling Of One Farm
Because It Violated Hight Restrictions
It Was Located In A Migratory Flyway
And Was Butchering Birds And Bats

One Of The Horn-Swaggles Of Wind Farms
Is They Sell You On The Max Out-Put
Of The Farms Generating At Full Capacity
They Never Are In The USA, At Least
Mostly At Less Than 8% At Any Given Time

And They Still Only Generate DC Current
With Resulting Voltage Drops From Farm To Station
And There's Still No Way To Store The Electricity
So It Has To Be Converted As It Trickles Into The Stations

Tesla Defeated Edison For A Reason
DC Generation Can't Power A Modern Industrial Society