Wind Watch: July 2023

Debunking the claim that “solar and wind are cheaper than fossil fuels”

If a company has a TV set that’s as good as others, but cheaper, they win by selling their cheaper TVs on the market. They don’t ask government to ban other TVs, to mandate their TV, or to give them hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Bisphenol A Pollution from Wind Turbines #GBR

What is Bisphenol A? Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical produced in large quantities for use primarily in the production of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins. “Bisphenol A is the most toxic substance we know’ —Swedish Environmental Protection Agency New EU Hazard Classes 2023 • Endocrine disruption for human health • Very persistent, very bioaccumulative • Endocrine disruption for the environment • Very persistent, very mobile Avoid release to the environment! A different process takes place on the trailing edge . . .
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Bisphenol A Pollution from Wind Turbines #GBR

“We have been invaded”: Wind energy sacrifice zones in Åfjord Municipality and their implications for Norway

ABSTRACT. Following the “green” growth tradition, the construction of lower carbon energy (renewable energy) infrastructures, such as wind power, has gained prominence in Norway. This has led to indigenous Saami herders confronting pastureland dispossession, some citizens fearing the industrialization of nature, and municipal councils losing formal governance power in favor of national agencies and private-sector project developers—justified by the urgency of the climate crisis. The purpose of the paper is to explore how energy infrastructures aimed at decarbonization have led . . .
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Comments of Independent Ratepayer Advocates #USA

Before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission— Modernizing Wholesale Electricity, Docket No. AD21-10-000 We offer comments here primarily to the Commission’s April 21, 2022 Order Directing Reports because the Order appears to focus on seeking supply solutions to the expensive and avoidable supply side problems of Variable Energy Resources (VERs) instead of focusing on the interests of consumers by leveling and broadening the venues in which generating resources compete and cooperate. … We wish to emphasize the importance of resource cooperation. Requiring . . .
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Mount Emerald, Queensland, Australia: time in 2022 at different output ranges

Steven Nowakowski of Rainforest Reserves Australia collected 2022 5-minute output data for the 180-MW Mount Emerald wind energy facility in Queensland, Australia. The average output was 26.8% of capacity - generating at or above that rate of 48.3 MW only 40% of the time. The median output was 18.1% of capacity (meaning that half the time it was generating less than 32.6 MW.
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“We have been invaded”: Wind energy sacrifice zones in Åfjord Municipality and their implications for Norway

View of wind turbines from beach at beach at Crosby, Merseyside, UK

View of wind turbines from beach at beach at Crosby, Merseyside, UK (Ørsted’s Burbo Bank) - photo by Peter Byrne, July 2, 2015
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“We have been invaded”: Wind energy sacrifice zones in Åfjord Municipality and their implications for Norway

Wind Isn’t Working

Wind Isn’t Working - cartoon by Josh
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Energy development on your land? Don’t throw caution to the wind #AUS

With wind, solar and battery developments playing a critical role in achieving Australia’s renewable energy targets, landowners continue to be approached by energy proponents and developers across the country seeking to secure agreements to undertake energy developments on their land. It is all too easy for landowners to be dangerously distracted during negotiations by the returns promised by energy developers and the benefits associated with income diversification. However, an energy development is not a “set and forget” project. They are . . .
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Comments of Independent Ratepayer Advocates #USA

Educating the Lawyers Series #AUS

These concise pamphlets are from Wind Farm Living in Victoria, Australia. The Battle of Armageddon Fudging the Wind Data The Bald Hills Precedent The Bald Hills Boys Are Now the Law Learnings from Bald Hills – The 4 Important Steps Step 1 Gathering the Evidence Step 2 Documenting the Evidence The New Game is Nuisance and the Judge Is the Umpire The Biggest Threat to a Wind Farm Is a Neighbour Who Complains The Problems with Wind Turbine Noise The . . .
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