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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 05/16/2025
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** The dirty little secret about clean energy...
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Real Clear Investigations ([link removed]) (5/15/25) reports: "While green advocates commonly use the terms renewable, sustainable, and net zero to describe their efforts, the dirty little secret is that much of the waste from solar panels and wind turbines is ending up in landfills. The current amounts of fiberglass, resins, aluminum and other chemicals – not to mention propeller blades from giant wind turbines – pose no threat current to local town dumps, but this largely ignored problem will become more of a challenge in the years ahead as the 500 million solar panels and the 73,000 wind turbines now operating in the U.S. are decommissioned and replaced....'Solar waste will grow exponentially in the next 20 years,' Tao said. 'Globally, we produced 20-25 million tons of solar panels in 2023. They will come offline in roughly 20 years. That is 20-25 million tons of solar waste a year in 2045.'
The Institute for Energy Research puts the potential mountain even higher, pointing to studies that put the 2050 figure at 78 million tons. For now, 90% of this detritus goes to landfills. And the panel fields and towering turbines must be dismantled, trucked away, usually by diesel-powered vehicles, and then sent to landfills or ports, where they are shipped to poor, developing countries."
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** "Let's be real: if Republicans pass the House budget bill as is, it will murder the US nuclear industry, ruin our chances of winning the AI race (by constraining power supply), concede the global auto sector to China, and vaporize about half a trillion dollars of US manufacturing investment. All while raising energy costs for US households and businesses."
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– Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University ([link removed])
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The pain in Spain will not remain on the plain.
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(5/15/25) reports: "A large swath of the United States is facing a heightened risk of blackouts this summer, a perennial danger as electricity use soars and extreme weather tests the nation’s aging power grid, according to the regulatory authority that monitors the electricity system. The seasonal electricity forecast warns that regional power grids extending from the Upper Midwest south through Texas may lack the power needed to meet all customer needs in the event of prolonged periods of high temperatures...The NERC report also points to the transition to green sources of energy as a complicating issue. Large amounts of wind and solar power have been added to the grid in the last year, and their inability to feed energy around-the-clock to the aging power network can destabilize it. While a vast expansion of industrial-size batteries to store that energy is helping, there is not yet enough storage to solve the problem. At the same time, aging gas and coal plants are being retired. This is
an issue for the regional power grid that serves 15 states from North Dakota to Louisiana, where there will be less power available this summer than there was last summer."
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And the "moderates" want to subsidize this.
** The Telegraph ([link removed])
(5/15/25) reports: "Chinese 'kill switches' have been found hidden in American solar farms, prompting calls for Ed Miliband to halt the rollout of renewables. On Thursday, the Energy Secretary was urged to impose an “immediate pause” on his green energy blitz to review whether UK solar plants are also at risk. The components found in the US included cellular radios capable of switching off the equipment remotely, raising serious concerns about grid security, according to Reuters. They were found inside power inverters manufactured by unnamed Chinese companies. Power inverters are the key links between solar or wind farms and the rest of the power system, converting their electricity so the wider grid can use it."
Let's hope Senator Murkowski spends her political capital helping Alaska instead of fighting to preserve President Biden's "climate" legacy. That would be a refreshing change.
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(5/7/25) reports: "In an unusually quiet session, the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed a bill to mandate new oil lease sales in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and allow construction of the Ambler Road, crossing protected federal land in Northwest Alaska. Lawmakers approved those items early Wednesday, as part of a budget reconciliation bill, with barely a peep from the Republican side of the room...Democrats tried to defeat portions of the bill with more than a hundred amendments. The first one would’ve removed the requirement to hold oil lease sales in the Arctic Refuge and killed any chance of ever drilling there...In addition to the Arctic Refuge provisions, the bill mandates lease sales in the National Petroleum Reserve and Cook Inlet."
Energy Markets
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