Offshore wind was supposed to save power-starved New England. Trump blew up that plan

[zqwerty]

Offshore wind was supposed to save power-starved New England. Trump blew up that plan

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/offshore-wind-...05847.html

Stupid Trump.

[harm_less]

Is that a portent for the New Zealand government's misguided strategy of prioritising mineral exploitation over offshore wind development?
 
We are looking down the barrel of electricity deficit with huge retail and wholesale price impacts coming down the line but Luxon's coalition refuses to acknowledge the potential of emerging renewable electricity generation technologies, instead remaining hell bent on digging up and selling as much of our environment as their industry lobbyists dictate.

[zqwerty]

Management types are always useless on details, they don't know when to butt out and leave it to the people who can see the whole picture because management is a haven/refuge for the stupid over confident ones who like to feel that they are in charge and know what they are doing, and they like to feel that everyone is just making a fuss and things in the real world are quite simple and all that is required is people like them to solve whatever problems are vexing the group at the moment.

[heisenberg]

we need more dams

[harm_less]

we need more dams

But the coalition canned the Lake Onslow project at their first opportunity and they are putting a strangle hold on infrastructure investment in general so more hydro schemes aren't going to be seen while they're holding the purse strings.

More the point we should be using our existing hydro storage as a huge national battery to buffer increased wind and solar generation. Currently the gentailers use them as golden geese fattened by the high prices of thermal generation. We have enough dams; they are just being used poorly.