{"id":352263,"date":"2024-11-25T15:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=352263"},"modified":"2024-11-25T15:33:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T14:33:41","slug":"australias-only-wind-tower-manufacturer-goes-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=352263","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s only wind tower manufacturer goes out of business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By Jo Nova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Image:\u00a0Keppel Prince<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

More proof that wind power can\u2019t be used to make wind turbines<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The one and only Australian manufacturer of wind turbine towers is going out of business, despite Australian electricity reaching 35% glorious renewable, and the Prime Ministers big plan to have the $22 billion<\/a> dollar Future Made in Australia<\/em><\/a>, as well as our galloping Net Zero fantasy to reach 82% renewable by 2030. We are, in theory, supposed to install 40 new wind towers a month somewhere in Australia, but none of the towers, it turns out, will be Australian made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine what we could do if Australia were the largest exporter of iron ore and coal in the world?  The government could still screw it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now, we ship the iron and coal 7,000 kilometers away with heavy fuel oil, to be made into windmills to save the world, only to ship them right back, rather than make them here.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Renewables are the cheapest source of electricity on Earth, they say, and Australia has twice as much as China (proportionately). But China makes\u00a065% of all wind turbines globall<\/a>y, and soon Australia will make 0%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company Keppel Prince<\/a>\u00a0don\u2019t mention the cost of electricity, although the boss of Glencore claims Australian prices are\u00a0double or more the cost in China<\/a>, which can\u2019t be good for any business. Instead, the company blames Chinese subsidized competitors for dumping, which may have some truth to it, but Keppel Prince has been living off\u00a0renewable energy subsidies<\/a>\u00a0themselves in Australia for years. In 2009 the company warned of job losses if the government didn\u2019t set a bigger renewable energy target (which it did), but then they had to sack 100 staff in 2014 when the target was cut. After that they got help from the Victorian State Energy Targets, and the requirement that 60 per cent of the manufacturing was done locally. The truth is there has probably never been a wind turbine built in Australia that wasn\u2019t subsidized. The only question is \u201chow big were the subsidies?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Opposition here, are naturally making fun of the abject failure of the Future Made In Australia plan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China subsidies smash Australian wind tower builder, signalling end of last major player Keppel Prince<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Australian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve got to look really bad that they are losing the only tower manufacturer accredited to build the things,\u201d Stephen Garner [the Executive Director of Keppel Prince] told The Australian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe federal government continues to say, like Albanese says, we want to get back to manufacturing. Here we have a manufacturing facility already in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s set up for renewable energy, which is what the government talks about every day of the week, and yet we\u2019ve got to mothball it because we can\u2019t compete with China because our government won\u2019t do anything about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Tehan said the government\u2019s pledge to build Australia\u2019s manufacturing base was in disarray. \u201cWhat a complete embarrassment,\u2019\u2019 the member for Wannon said. \u201cTheir renewables only policy has been such a success it has closed our last remaining wind tower manufacturer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, the government is not in breach of its own misinformation and disinformation laws, it needs to immediately pull its Made in Australia ads that proudly displays a\u00a0wind farm<\/a>. \u201cIt would actually be funny, if workers weren\u2019t losing their jobs\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t like seeing any Australian business go under, but there is an element of live-by-the-sword, die-by-the-sword as the saying goes. Hopefully the expertise in Keppel Prince can be put to better use manufacturing things the market wants, instead of what the government wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, no Australian business can compete with slave labor and cheap coal fired and nuclear power. The only thing more stupid than that would be competing in an industry to make things the market doesn\u2019t want; the country doesn\u2019t need, and which won\u2019t save the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The one and only Australian manufacturer of wind turbine towers is going out of business, despite Australian electricity reaching 35% glorious renewable, and the Prime Ministers big plan to have the $22 billion dollar Future Made in Australia, as well as our galloping Net Zero fantasy to reach 82% renewable by 2030. We are, in theory, supposed to install 40 new wind towers a month somewhere in Australia, but none of the towers, it turns out, will be Australian made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":352271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691818216,691818154,691829712,691818322],"class_list":{"0":"post-352263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-net-zero","10":"tag-renewable-energy-subsidies","11":"tag-wind-turbines","13":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/094b0428268deeb846c1d0ee8aa97fd5b.webp?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1tDF","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":394897,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=394897","url_meta":{"origin":352263,"position":0},"title":"Renewables Investment \u201cfalls off a cliff\u201d in Australia \u2014 down 64% this year","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"13\/08\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a bit of paralysis of green investment Downunder.","rel":"","context":"In \"Australia\"","block_context":{"text":"Australia","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=australia"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AQNDCiQA57RPyuRLBXAurpuYp88WHEFYdDzepIhC-TGGShDh6HGjNNIn_YQPdJRoC-5h-ez0NRLr2Ue617RUFUZf37n84H7HhmDNprfzwet80INc3N48GIW4vG_cXkPXkoSPQNHmQkbYFAuTaYSIjVfL_OPkPQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AQNDCiQA57RPyuRLBXAurpuYp88WHEFYdDzepIhC-TGGShDh6HGjNNIn_YQPdJRoC-5h-ez0NRLr2Ue617RUFUZf37n84H7HhmDNprfzwet80INc3N48GIW4vG_cXkPXkoSPQNHmQkbYFAuTaYSIjVfL_OPkPQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AQNDCiQA57RPyuRLBXAurpuYp88WHEFYdDzepIhC-TGGShDh6HGjNNIn_YQPdJRoC-5h-ez0NRLr2Ue617RUFUZf37n84H7HhmDNprfzwet80INc3N48GIW4vG_cXkPXkoSPQNHmQkbYFAuTaYSIjVfL_OPkPQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AQNDCiQA57RPyuRLBXAurpuYp88WHEFYdDzepIhC-TGGShDh6HGjNNIn_YQPdJRoC-5h-ez0NRLr2Ue617RUFUZf37n84H7HhmDNprfzwet80INc3N48GIW4vG_cXkPXkoSPQNHmQkbYFAuTaYSIjVfL_OPkPQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AQNDCiQA57RPyuRLBXAurpuYp88WHEFYdDzepIhC-TGGShDh6HGjNNIn_YQPdJRoC-5h-ez0NRLr2Ue617RUFUZf37n84H7HhmDNprfzwet80INc3N48GIW4vG_cXkPXkoSPQNHmQkbYFAuTaYSIjVfL_OPkPQ.jpeg?fit=1200%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":330452,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=330452","url_meta":{"origin":352263,"position":1},"title":"We have World Class windless weather: Today 95% of wind turbines on the continent of Australia are failing","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"28\/05\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Australia has built 11.5 GW of theoretical total wind power capacity on the National Energy Market (NEM) spread across 80 locations on the Eastern Seaboard, and at one point today only 4.1% of it was working. 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