Net Zero Samizdat
14 April 2023
1) Net Zero dead in the water as G7 may delay coal phase out
Bloomberg, 14 April 2023
Daily Mail, 12 April 2023
4) Cars soon unaffordable for 50% of Germans, expert warns
No Tricks Zone, 12 April 2023
5) Peak EV: Electric vehicles will fade as their true costs become clear
Mises Institute, 12 April 2023
6) Ruy Teixeira: The working class isn’t down with the green transition
The Liberal Patriot, 13 April 2023
7) Diving seabird numbers plunge 90pc near offshore wind farms
The Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2023
NL Times, 13 April 2023
The Times, 14 April 2023
10) Gordon Hughes: Heat pumps epitomise the economic folly of Net Zero
The Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2023
11) And finally: BBC admit to using fake image – but don’t apologise
Paul Homewood, Not A Lot of People Know That, 14 April 2023
Bloomberg, 11 April 2023
US, Japan, and the EU have reservations about a proposal by the UK to set a firm 2030 deadline to end unabated coal-fired power generation
The language, which won France’s backing, also would have recognized the need to “cancel the pipeline of new global coal power generation projects,” and therefore have the G7 countries committing to end construction of new domestic coal-fired power plants and work with international partners to end similar efforts globally.
2) India plans new coal boom to meet soaring demand
Bloomberg, 14 April 2023
State-run NTPC Ltd., India’s largest electricity producer, plans to start building more coal plants this year as the country continues to lean on the fuel to meet its growing energy needs.
New Delhi-based NTPC will likely award construction orders for about 4.5 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity during the fiscal year that began this month, according to an official aware of the plans, who asked not be named before a final decision is made. The projects will be built across three sites where the utility already runs power plants.
The projects underscore how even as India sets ambitious long-term decarbonization targets, in the near term it will continue to rely on the dirtiest fossil fuel to meet rapidly growing power demand. A warming planet and increased penetration of air conditioners are causing power consumption to climb to new records in the country.
NTPC, which last year began building coal plants again after a years-long hiatus, expects to place orders for construction of 1.6 gigawatts of coal power plants each at Lara and Singrauli, as well a 1.32 gigawatts at Meja in Uttar Pradesh during the current fiscal year, the official said.
The company, India’s largest coal user, aims to boost output from its own mines to 34 million tons this fiscal year, a 48% increase from the previous year, according to the official.
see also: India’s coal demand to double by 2040
