Comments - Wind Power Investors Get Another Reality Check - Citizens' Task Force on Wind Power - Maine2024-03-29T12:12:23Zhttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=4401701%3ABlogPost%3A13306&xn_auth=noI find John's points to be sp…tag:www.windtaskforce.org,2011-04-11:4401701:Comment:135012011-04-11T03:56:11.870ZBrad Blakehttps://www.windtaskforce.org/profile/BradBlake
<span id="text_content_of_comment_1582282">I find John's points to be spot on in my own experiences with analyzing wind. It is the biggest farce going. It is irresponsible for the governments to force mandates for a particular source of electricity, driving up costs. Wind is the least productive, most costly source of electricity. Wind development depends on taxpayers money and selling Enron-inspired RECs. Thank goodness smarter heads prevailed in Washington and we have thus far avoided nation…</span>
<span id="text_content_of_comment_1582282">I find John's points to be spot on in my own experiences with analyzing wind. It is the biggest farce going. It is irresponsible for the governments to force mandates for a particular source of electricity, driving up costs. Wind is the least productive, most costly source of electricity. Wind development depends on taxpayers money and selling Enron-inspired RECs. Thank goodness smarter heads prevailed in Washington and we have thus far avoided nation PRS. But a regional RGGI in the northeast is fueling the blasting away and leveling of hundreds of miles of Maine's mountains for sprawling industrial wind complexes to meet arbitrarily set and ever increasing percentage mandates for renewables. Wind sites are being developed throughout areas on the NREL map of Maine that are totally white coded--poor wind potential--and Maine's profile with its bountiful hydro resources parallels the BPA cited by John. Get government out of being a mandating nanny state and stop interfering in free markets by giving preferential treatment to an industry that doesn't deserve it.</span>