Biden’s Wind, Solar “Green” Energy Policy May “End in Tears”
By ZeroHedge
Germany launched new green energy policies way back in 2000, and it could have been a viable lesson for America if it was paying attention.
High subsidies for wind and solar have had a costly impact on consumers who still need fossil fuels.
The Biden Administration’s push toward green energy has failed to balance energy demand with the reality of the resources we have at our disposal.
American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin once said: “Experience is an expensive school, but fools will learn in no other.”
Germany’s green energy policy, ENERGIEWENDE, launched in the year 2000, could have been a cheap lesson for America today.
However, the Biden administration has chosen to follow Germany, providing heavy subsidies for wind and solar, while suppressing industries that could reliably meet America’s energy needs for hundreds of years, and even reduce its carbon footprint.
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In January, the administration announced it had “pulled every lever to position America to scale up clean energy …
The Biden Administration has readied offshore areas to harness power from wind, approved new solar projects on public lands, and passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to build thousands of miles of transmission lines that deliver clean energy.”
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On June 6, the Biden Administration invoked the Defense Production Act to increase the production of green energy and to replace the use of fossil fuels. Whereas, the legality of this move is questionable, it established the U.S. government as a major controlling party in America’s heretofore private energy industry.
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Twenty-two years ago, Germany stepped into the forefront of the green energy movement, implementing its “Energiewende”, an ambitious program of subsidies for solar panels and wind turbines, and tree-burning power plants, coupled with a reduction in coal, oil, and natural gas.
After the 2011 nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, Germany decided to also close its nuclear plants.
In 2000, less than 7 percent of Germany’s electricity came from so-called renewables.
In 2021, that share exceeded 40 percent of the country’s electricity generation, equivalent to about 20 percent of its total energy consumption for all uses
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By the end of 2021, before the Ukraine war drove prices even higher, German households paid 32 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity. The rate in France, which kept its nuclear industry intact, was 23 cents. Americans paid an average price of 11 cents for electricity at that time—about a third of what Germans paid.
Twenty percent of Germans’ electric bills went to a “renewables surcharge” to subsidize wind and solar.
Germany had spent heavily to increase its renewable energy capacity, but in the case of wind and solar, capacity never delivered the promised output.
According to a 2020 report from the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Germany’s electricity output in 2000 was an average of 54 percent of its total capacity, also known as the “system capacity factor.” Unused capacity is the norm for power grids, because the demand for electricity varies significantly depending on the time of day, the season, and the weather.
By 2019, while Germany’s total electricity capacity, MW, had risen dramatically, thanks to a sharp increase in renewables, its capacity factor had fallen to just 20 percent, largely because wind and solar generators were less productive than fossil fuels or nuclear.
- The capacity factor for solar energy was just 10 percent, because much of the country is often overcast.
- Wind energy was also producing well below capacity, because wind turbines produced no energy on calm days, and had to shut down on particularly gusty days to prevent turbine blades from being damaged.
- Even within those limits, the amount of energy produced by wind turbines was hugely variable depending on how hard the wind was blowing.
“It costs Germany a great deal to maintain such an excess of installed power,” the IEEE report stated. “The average cost of electricity for German households has doubled since 2000.”
A major problem with wind and solar is they are wind-dependent, i.e., unreliable, and they tend to generate the most power when people need it least.
The peak seasons for wind generation tend to be fall and spring
The peak demand for energy occurs in summer and winter when people need to heat or cool homes and offices.
An electricity grid must manage huge variability in demand. It must have enough capacity to cover peak demand, for example during the hottest hours of summer, but also have the flexibility to reduce power during early morning hours, or springtime days, when demand falls considerably.
Because renewables are unpredictable in terms of how much energy they will produce, and when, they add substantial variability to the supply side of the equation.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
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