This post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions.

Spain and Portugal Power Grid Failure:
*** The Spanish Blackout Shows Why the Green Dream Is Unsustainable
*** What Is Reactive Power and Why Is It Important in Power Systems?
*** Study: The effect of renewable energy incorporation on power grid stability and resilience
*** El Blackout
Spain’s blackout is a flashing warning light for our renewable energy system
Did Spain’s push for renewable energy have any impact on its mass power blackout?
Over-Reliance On Renewables Behind Catastrophic Blackouts in Spain
Yes, We Can Blame Solar for Spain’s Blackout — and if the Socialist Government Doesn’t Change Course, Expect More Blackouts
The Spanish Blackout Is a Warning to the World

Greed Energy Economics:
Pennsylvania’s ‘Price Cap’ Could Hike Electricity Bills

Unreliables: Energy Health and Ecosystem Consequences:
Wind power’s eagle-kill permits are a deadly failure so permitting must stop

Unreliables (General):
*** Just Say No to Battery Storage for Wind or Solar
Green NGOs feel the heat
Renewable Portfolio Standards

Wind Energy — Offshore:
RWE ending US offshore operations

Wind Energy — Other:
*** Wind industry keeps preying on Upstate NY region

Nuclear Energy:
*** A Thorium Reactor Has Rewritten the Rules of Nuclear Power
Nuward’s New SMR Concept

Fossil Fuel Energy:
Epstein: Answers to student questions about fossil fuel growth

Electric Vehicles (EVs):
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, of Electric Vehicles

Miscellaneous Energy News:
Rethinking the Future of Energy: The Real Clear Energy Future Forum

Manmade Global Warming — Some Deceptions:
*** You don’t have to be a climate scientist to personally fact check misleading Climate Claims by Governments and activists
*** Carbon Capture: Costly, Useless & Harmful
The Nihilism of Beijing’s New York Climate Radicals
UK To Experiment With “Dim The Sun” Projects To Stop Global Warming

Manmade Global Warming — The Science:
*** Trump Crushes Climate Dogma as Europe Doubles Down on Folly…

“Our Founder and CEO John Berger reminds us why this event is so pivotal: Sunnova and our dealer partners are uniting to tackle the U.S. power demand shortage with American-made solar solutions.🤝”

Previous posts (here, here, and here) have detailed how a second-hander company, trying to be all things to all people, and living off of special government subsidies, was a liability parading as an asset. Sunnova was never profitable, and the only winners among the countless thousands involved with the company were founder and CEO John Berger (inflated salary and cashouts) and some other executives paid for misallocating resources.

Having been at Enron from the beginning to the end, and seeing the similarities of Enron and Sunnova (both went down with the lights on), and knowing Berger was a Ken Lay-alike, I gathered (below) some pictures of the company’s hyperbole in action.…

“Climate action is a cornerstone of our business strategy and our commitment to sustainability.”

“At Sunnova, we have worked diligently to embed responsibility, sustainability and risk management into everything that we do….. The transition to a net-zero economy is one that we are determined to realize. It requires innovation, bold action, thoughtfulness, and alignment with leading climate science, all without sacrificing affordability, resilience, and energy equity.” (2023 Sustainability Report)

Here are the (nauseating) highlights of the Houston-based rooftop solar leader, Sunnova Energy (NOVA). Once sporting a stock price in the 50s per share, it is now a penny stock, a story briefly told here.

Politically correct, economically incorrect, the business plan of Enron-ex CEO John Berger was all about living off of special taxpayer favors. And in the Enron tradition, its 95-page EGS report was all about imaging and political posturing.…

“The challenge with rising renewables: As power systems rely more on asynchronous generation, frequency changes can occur much faster, increasing the risk of grid instability.” (- Dave Edwards_

Dave Edwards post begins: “As an engineer I like to understand how systems operate, this is useful for fault diagnosis, especially when a system fails and a Root Cause is needed, though maybe more than one contributing factor. So let’s Talk “Inertia” 🙋‍♂️Everyone’s Saying It, But Who Really Understands It 🤷‍♂️”

The floor is his:

“Inertia” is getting a lot of airtime in power system discussions lately, but what is it, really, and why is it so critical for grid stability on an electrical power generation system.

More importantly, which generation technologies actually provide useful inertia⁉️

Image created using Chapt GPT 4o

❓What is inertia?…