You've seen the wind farms in Washington and Dodge Counties in Wisconsin, and maybe the humungous one in Indiana bridging I-65.
Trump calls them 'garbage in a field,' and he's right.
...Trump compared wind farms to “dropping garbage in a field” and said wind developers are “getting rich” off of government subsidies that the projects receive.
Trump also argued that wind energy is the most expensive form of energy, far more expensive than “clean natural gas.” Experts doing full analyses of all the costs associated with putting wind and solar farms on the grid tell Just the News that Trump is correct. ...
Naturally, the New York Times went into Full-Misinformation/SQUIRREL!! Mode, yapping about the percentage of power wind generates in Iowa.
But that wasn't the point, was it?
...While they provided figures of the growth of wind energy in the U.S., the Times reporters never discuss electricity rates, which would be expected to be falling if increased wind was producing cheaper electricity. ...
... The Times article also didn’t discuss why the wind industry needs so much ongoing federal taxpayer support — a point Trump stressed during the press conference — if it is producing much more cost-competitive electricity. ...
The Department of Energy Lies produced a "report" claiming that wind power is cheapest.
But people who live and work in the real world blasted that DOE propaganda to smithereens. You'd best be sitting down when you read this next graf:
...Most recently, the pair calculated the cost per megawatt hour of new wind and solar farms compared to existing natural gas in New England. Their modeling shows that onshore wind costs $240 per megawatt hour, solar costs $357 per megawatt hour and offshore wind costs $436 per megawatt hour. That’s compared to $98 per megawatt hour for a natural gas turbine, or $37 per megawatt hour for a gas peaker plant, which are natural gas-powered plants turned on as needed when demand exceeds supply....
...The highest hidden costs, according to Rolling and Orr, is the cost overbuilding and curtailing generation. The grid has to have lots of wind and solar farms to utilize the right weather conditions when they happen, and then when the weather is such that too much electricity is produced, it has nowhere to go and must be curtailed. ...Oh yah....Wisconsin Electric, now run by Chicago interests, is putting up a huge solar farm. You noticed how much your rates have gone down recently?
Which Chicago interests are getting the bazillion-dollar FedGov kickbacks for this crap?
Lazard Freres, a major international brokerage/financing firm (like Goldie) wrote a study "proving" that wind farms were a cheap source.
But they they said.....
As with the EIA, Lazard also explains on page 8 of their report the limitations of its study.
...“Other factors would also have a potentially significant effect on the results contained herein, but have not been examined in the scope of this current analysis. These additional factors, among others, may include: implementation and interpretation of the full scope of the IRA; economic policy, transmission queue reform, network upgrades and other transmission matters, congestion, curtailment or other integration-related costs; permitting or other development costs, unless otherwise noted; and costs of complying with various environmental regulations (e.g., carbon emissions offsets or emissions control systems),” the report states. ...
That's like the used-car salesman telling you the car only costs $1,000.00 unless you include the body, engine, steering, and transmission.
Think your Public Service/Rates Commission pays attention to these little details?
Really?
How much do you want to bet?
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