Con: Wind an even bigger boondoggle than ethanol

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Wind an even bigger boondoggle than
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Three wind turbines from the Deepwater Wind project off Block Island, R.I., are viewed Monday, Aug. 15. Deepwater Wind's $300 million five-turbine wind farm off Block Island is expected to be operational this fall. It will be the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

By Mark J. Perry

Before we become too hopeful about the prospects of using offshore wind power as a fuel source of the future, let’s not forget that government data shows that offshore wind power cannot survive in a competitive environment without huge taxpayer subsidies.

Today, wind power receives subsidies greater than any other form of energy per unit of actual energy produced.

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., a key member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, says that public subsidies for wind on a per megawatt-hour basis are 26 times those for fossil fuels and 16 times those for nuclear power.

Alexander estimates that the production tax credit over the next decade will cost American taxpayers more than $26 billion.

The tax credit gives $23 for every megawatt-hour of electricity a wind turbine generates during the first 10 years of operation.

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Comment by Thinklike A. Mountain on October 23, 2016 at 12:41am

Clinton Foundation's list of donors. Click the amount.

https://www.clintonfoundation.org/contributors?category=Greater+tha...

Comment by Marshall Rosenthal on October 22, 2016 at 5:59pm

This is elite energy, toy energy. What juice they produce will be guzzled on the island. We will all get to pay for this, living in probable taxa-chusetts. (Have you been watching your local power bill go through the roof? It's really time to take the polite gloves off.) This was someone's idea of putting the wind turbines out in the ocean where they wouldn't bother the elite islanders. I wonder if they considered what the deafened sperm whales and dolphins would go through? If they can't hear, they can't find the schools of fish that they feed on. They starve. They beach themselves trying to get away from the sub-audible noise, the ILFNs (infra-sound and low frequency noise).  I guess not. Sorry to go on so, but someone needs to talk about this.

Comment by Paul Ackerman on October 22, 2016 at 4:59pm

was Deepwater a contributor to the Clinton Foundation? That is quite the embedded cost for a paltry three turbines. Maybe the electricity will only go to Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

Comment by Paula D Kelso on October 22, 2016 at 4:07pm

$300 MILLIION FOR FIVE TURBINES????  Even if they're monsters, no way can any electricity generated be affordable. Even with subsidies.

 

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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT

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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/

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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law

Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future

"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."

https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/

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