Developers Cancel Huge Offshore Wind Contract In Latest Blow to Biden’s Climate Agenda
By Paul Homewood
Another one bites the dust!
The two firms behind a major offshore wind project decided to cancel a contract to supply power from the development on Wednesday, dealing a major blow to President Joe Biden’s massive green energy agenda.
Equinor and British Petroleum (BP), the firms working in a joint venture to construct the enormous Empire Wind 2 offshore wind farm, canceled a contract with New York state to sell power generated by the project, citing inflationary pressures, high interest rates and supply chain problems, Equinor announced. The cancellation stands as the latest sign of trouble for the offshore wind industry, which the Biden administration is counting on to produce enough energy to power 10 million American homes for one year by 2030.
“Commercial viability is fundamental for ambitious projects of this size and scale. The Empire Wind 2 decision provides the opportunity to reset and develop a stronger and more robust project going forward,” Molly Morris, president of Equinor Renewables Americas, said in a statement. “We will continue to closely engage our many community partners across the state. As evidenced by the progress at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal, our offshore wind activity is ready to generate union jobs and significant economic activity in New York.”
https://dailycaller.com/2024/01/03/developers-cancel-offshore-wind-contract-blow-biden-agenda/
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
“…develop a stronger and more robust project…”
Dear Consumer – Heads we win, tails you lose; that is our business plan.
Hach aye munn, ( as the locals would say up here ) we heard on the Radio this morning, ‘THe scot gov has REFUSED a wind development along the A7 (somewhere far from here) … but it was / is OK for development up HERE in the Highlands …. Highland Tourist / Development Board, anyone ? … No worries, then as they say in the Windy City ( Nairrrrn ).
This is totally off topic but has anyone noticed this paragraph appears in the BBC stage 1 response?
“We can assure you that the BBC is committed to providing fair and impartial coverage of the latest News stories to our audience, and climate change is an issue that the BBC takes very seriously.”
John MacEnroe applies
BBC “fair and impartial” only applies on plant zog which is positioned way far to the left of the known universe
The majority of the population probably wasn’t born the last time the BBC was fair and impartial.
There’s no connection between the two halves of this sentence.
Offshore Wind Mortuaries?
Whale deaths are conclusively linked to wind farms in a new documentary:
“This is an absolute environmental catastrophe brought on by bad environmental policies.”
The appalling scandal is revealed here —
It’s worth noting that Vattenfall has sold out of their 4.2 GW of Norfolk offshore wind projects to RWE, who paid the development cost to date.
https://www.power-technology.com/news/vattenfall-uk-norfolk-rwe/?cf-view
The LCCC has not registered the Norfolk Boreas CFD as being formally cancelled, so there are doubtless ongoing negotiations on that score. The threat to downsize by Ørsted will doubtless focus minds. Delays at the least while haggling for higher prices…. and all without the dispatchable benefit of coal.
Power 10 million homes for a year? So that’s approx 40 million MWh based on each home consuming around 350 kWh per month.
They always leave out the detail such as on which dates these homes will receive power.
‘which the Biden administration is counting on to produce enough energy to power 10 million American homes for one year by 2030’
What happens the second year?
Is powering American homes the same unit of measure as powering UK homes, or is this like US gallons vs imperial gallons?
Depending on which state you are talking about American low rise houses are more lightly built, built quicker with timber and panels and profiled metal sheeting , have less insulation and are heated to a higher temperature than in the UK where govt. advises that 19C is enough and that more clothes should be worn. With fuel costs at their present level American houses may not be so well heated as before.
The result of forest fires and high winds shows how much these lightly built dwellings get damaged or destroyed.
The UK came perilously close to a blackout on 22nd December.
https://www.current-news.co.uk/ifa-interconnector-fault-causes-49-2hz-frequency-event/
I will try to research it later.
Very interesting IDAU I would be interested in what you can unearth and I will see if I can glean any information (I am only a few miles from Sellindge). I have a suspicion that the problems encountered in Scotland could not have been assisted by battery frequency control alone. Such a long range effect immediately smacks of a VAR problem. Wind Farms, Interconnectors and battery packs cannot offer reactive power control on their own. The Scottish plants probably went offline because they could not get their power to go anywhere.
It’s clear that IFA tripped out, having already reduced 1GW earlier in a slightly more orderly fashion. Leo Smith’s Gridwatch data for the period looks to be glitched. The 15 second frequency data has a nadir at 49.313Hz at 13:10:15 – the 1 second data has just been published and shows a nadir of 49.275Hz at 13:10:11. Looking at the new BMRS data, it seems that pumped storage (Cruachan and Foyers as well as Dinorwig) was the prime line of defence with a certain amount of “other” which might be batteries or fast start diesel. Inertia was not all that high with about 5GW of CCGT and 5GW of nuclear. There was no apparent loss of wind at the scale of 5 minute intervals – i.e. anything that tripped out was back again by 13:15.
The current standards have been lowered significantly. The grid is operating with a minimum inertia of 120GVAs, and is supposed only to keep frequency above 49.2Hz, restoring a deviation below 40.5Hz within 60 seconds. 48.8Hz is now the level for automated disconnection. The first print below 49.5Hz was at 13:10:03, and the first one back above it again was at 13:11:03 – arguably a fail as not within 60 seconds.
There is supposed to be ~1GW of batteries providing Dynamic Containment which simply don’t seem to have turned up to the match. There have been other interconnector trips of 1GW or more without such a frequency dip. The grid is supposed to be more resilient because of them, and the programme to adjust protection settings on renewables generators to tolerate wider frequency excursions/phase shifts without tripping out.
Earlier this year:
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/equinor-puts-norwegian-trollvind-offshore-wind-farm-hold-2023-05-22/
OSLO, May 22 (Reuters) – Equinor (EQNR.OL) will postpone indefinitely its planned Trollvind floating offshore wind farm project in Norway, the Norwegian energy company said on Monday.
“This decision is based on several challenges facing the project, including technology availability, rising cost and a strained timetable to deliver on the original concept,” Equinor said in a statement.
Also from Reuters…
Canceled offshore wind projects, imperiled solar factories, fading demand for electric vehicles.
A year after passage of the largest climate change legislation in U.S. history, meant to touch off a boom in American clean energy development, economic realities are fraying President Joe Biden’s agenda..
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/bidens-clean-energy-agenda-faces-mounting-headwinds-2023-11-24
‘economic realities’ aka major cost overshoots all around.
I remember when BP stood for British Petroleum, one of the most respected BigOil companies.
Then came John Browne, of “Beyond Petroleum fame. A complete arse, to put it politely.
Now we have BP trying to con a senile old President out of a few hundred extra billion dollars of US taxpayers’ and energy users’ hard earned cash.
So, what does BP now stand for? Behemoth Pillockers?
“It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.” — W. C. Fields
Biden is the bad guy, not BP.
It became ‘British Petroleum’ again thanks to Obummer and the extortion of money from the company over the failure of an American company with regard to Deepwater Horizon. BP were completely fleeced over this and the irony is that there are more US shareholders of BP than UK ones. Still, what is new about DemoTwats screwing the American people.
Bidens pimp?
I suspect BigOil cos like BP were only pushing wind to )1) virtue signal (i.e. be a good litttle ESG boy), and (2) as they knew it needed full hydrocarbon fuelled generation backup, but probably sensed people are now beginning to see through that ruse.
New York State offered developers the opportunity ti re-bid their contracts. Surprising no one most have cancelled their existing offers are are re-bidding. The only question left is just how much more they will demand to save New York’s net-zero plan. All arguments that similar efforts in Europe are not working so well are being ignored.
There is a simple reason raptors, bats and whales are protected – they have a low breeding rate as they are not subject to predation. So killing them to save the planet is likely to wipe them out in areas around windmills. Jo Nova highlights the BBC whacking off in delight over a new bubble screen that goes around windmill construction to avoid deafening porpoises. Funny how there has been a deafening silence from the BBC over this happening in the first place.