Trump admin eliminating EPA’s ‘Energy Star’ division as well as EPA’s ‘Climate Protection Partnerships’
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5286201-trump-energy-star-climate-change-epa/ by Rachel Frazin Excerpt: The Trump administration is cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star program, which highlights energy efficient home appliances, an agency source told The Hill on Tuesday. According to the source, at a meeting Monday, staffers were told that Energy Star was being eliminated, as is the Climate Protection Partnerships […]
Lessons from Spain’s Blackout: ‘It’s Okay to Notice When Solar & Wind Fail’ – ‘Probably the largest blackout in Europe’s history’
Breakthrough Institute: “Following major power outages in Spain and Portugal—probably the largest blackout in Europe’s history—many are already rushing to exonerate Spain’s wind and solar generation from culpability…But while a total grid collapse at this scale will be multifactorial, it is a simple statement of fact to observe that most of Spain’s solar and wind capacity was wholly unequipped to weather grid fluctuations, possessing none of those shiny new supporting technologies.
Running a power system mostly on wind and solar may be theoretically possible, but has yet to be demonstrated on any large grid in the world. Doing so would require a number of “grid-enhancing” solutions that are only just beginning to enter operational service at scale today. …
But it is, frankly, exactly what one would expect from the type of energy transition attempted by the Spanish government: breakneck deployment of renewables, a failure to ensure enough spinning generator capacity to maintain stabilizing grid inertia despite widespread understandings of these risks and vocal warnings from grid operators, and underinvestment in grid capabilities that could compensate for renewable energy’s unique technical risks to reliability. It is a testament to the gravity of such risks that an outage has already occurred, two years prior to the start of Spain’s planned phaseout of nuclear energy. …
[Solar and wind’s] benefits to the power system—modularity and low marginal costs—have to be balanced against their shortcomings—intermittency, large land area, and transmission requirements. Additionally, most solar and wind farms operating today use simpler equipment that are vulnerable to unexpected shifts in frequency and do not provide spinning or synthetic inertia that can compensate for grid frequency fluctuations. …
Both Spanish officials and some mainstream media coverage have been quick to dismiss any explanations that implicate wind and solar in the blackouts. “Reliance on renewables is not to blame,” wrote Reuters’ Ron Buosso. “Rather, the issue appears to be the management of renewables in the modern grid.” This dismisses the inherent risks that unaugmented wind and solar can pose to grid operation, and shifts accompanying blame away from the renewables sector and onto utilities and grid operators.
Don’t call it ‘climate denial,’ Sec of Energy Chris Wright claims he’s preaching ‘climate realism’
https://www.cpr.org/2025/05/05/climate-change-trump-secretary-of-energy-chris-wright/ By Sam Brasch Excerpt: It’s not hard to pinpoint when U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright catapulted himself—and his views on climate change—into the national spotlight. It started with a corporate dust-up over jacket logos. In late 2020, a Texas oil and gas firm tried to order company jackets from The North Face, but the […]
Green energy experiment by Spain and Portugal fails with power grid collapse and blackout
https://www.naturalnews.com/2025-05-05-green-energy-experiment-spain-portugal-fails-blackouts.html By Ramon Tomey A massive power outage on April 28 left millions without electricity, disrupting transportation, emergency services and commerce – one of Europe’s worst peacetime blackouts. The collapse followed Spain’s celebration of running entirely on renewable energy, exposing the instability of wind and solar power when traditional baseload sources (like nuclear or fossil […]
Watch: Morano on America’s Voice TV on Spain’s blackout: ‘SPAIN HAS A LONG HISTORY OF PROMOTING THIS NET-ZERO CLIMATE AGENDA’
https://americasvoice.news/spain-blackouts-serve-as-warning/ SPAIN BLACKOUTS SERVE AS WARNING “SPAIN HAS A LONG HISTORY OF PROMOTING THIS NET-ZERO CLIMATE AGENDA.” Marc Morano and Grant Stinchfield discuss solar plants in Spain going down, causing the grid to shut down just a week after announcing they were 100% renewable energy. Too much solar to blame for Spanish blackout in […]
WSJ: ‘The Politics of EVs Have Changed’ – ’35 Democrats joined the GOP to repeal California’s EV mandate’
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-politics-of-evs-has-changed-house-vote-california-waiver-1f951a68 By The WSJ Editorial Board Excerpt: The times they are a changin’, especially on progressive climate dogma. On Thursday the House voted in strong bipartisan fashion to overturn the EV mandate the Biden Administration let California impose on the rest of America. The vote was 246-164 for a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to repeal […]
‘Got To Go’: DOE To Cut Off Billions Of Dollars’ Worth Of Biden-Era Green Energy Projects
“The entire program has to be shut down,” author and Climate Depot executive editor Marc Morano told the DCNF. “You can’t have the energy department picking winners and losers in the energy sector.”