Climate Common Sense: USD 40 billion of Czech solar subsidies in the pipeline - Up In Smoke!

The real farce is that these solar panels are almost 100 % subsidised by the taxpayer who then buys the energy produced at the exhorbitant rates specified. The fact that NSW is a financial basket case is not surprising given the financial ineptitude of some of these decisions.
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In real life power dispatchers have a daily load estimate which is forecast as accurately as possible and power generators are scheduled hours in advance to meet predicted load. This is called dispatchable power and must be planned for or the lights go out. As it is impossible to say at any future time that X Mw of solar or wind power will be available - it may be zero - the base load machines have to be planned and run as if the "green power" did not exist. In fact it would be far cheaper if it didn't. As well as being non-dispatchable sudden variations in green power can cause system instability.
This is why the statement that a a wind farm will "power 30,000 homes " is nonsense as it cannot be relied on to power any homes at all as was shown in the recent UK deep freeze.

Details of climate bill trickle out - POLITICO.com Print View

“We don’t have 60 votes to pass a strong global warming bill,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said. “The choice I suspect Sen. Kerry is wrestling with is whether it’s better to do something or nothing.”

Cantwell-Collins Duo Skeptical Of Trio -- Energy Section

Cantwell and Collins have been holding their own briefings with fence-sitting senators -- and have the advantage so far of having an actual bill to showcase. "It's important to note that there still isn't a bill for us to look at," Collins said of the trio's efforts. "So it's very difficult to judge what's actually in Senator Kerry's bill when he has not yet produced an actual bill."

"I think it's changed 25 times over the last 25 days, so it's hard for us to answer," Cantwell added.