High Cost of Offshore Wind Electricity per kWh

HIGH COST OF OFFSHORE WIND ELECTRICITY PER kWh.

https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-of-offshore-...

by Willem Post

.

The reason costs are ballooning is because the focus has been on the cost of offshore wind electricity, say 15 c/kWh, after the equivalent of 50% federal and state subsidies.

But then there is the A-to-Z cost (windmill system to land fill) almost all folks ignore. Those costs are about 11 c/kWh. 

The European elites have screwed themselves by going hog-wild for wind, solar, batteries, etc.

They closed their near-zero-CO2 nuclear plants, and their coal plants 

Because of grossly too many rules and regulations emanating from Brussels, and a lack of nuclear plant building experience, all recent nuclear plants cost more than $10,000/installed MW and take 10+ years to build; China builds such plant at half the cost and in less than half the time.

No wonder Europe has become uncompetitive.

These dysfunctional elites are encouraging the displacement of native populations. A total of 64.2 million unvetted, uneducated, untrained, non-citizens were in Europe at end 2025 (not counting their children and grandchildren born in Europe). They are the dregs from mostly Islamic Third World countries by end 2025 (at an A-to-Z cost of $160 billion for 2025.

How will Europe ever get rid of these people, before its rapidly growing population is greater than the shrinking population of natives?

And more recently:

These elites imposed a ban on Russian low-cost fossil fuels and other natural resources much needed by Europe, so Russia cannot profit from them; the sanctions backfired on Europe.

After NATO was established, European elites, dependent for defense on the US, saved themselves $trillions by spending only 0.5 to 1.5% of GDP on their own defense, while the US spent about 4 to 5% to keep the peace in the world.

How can you claim to be sovereign and not be able to defend yourself?

That grossly inequitable situation came to a screeching halt in 2025, when Trump required Europe to spend up to 5% of GDP for their own defense, because the US was “busy elsewhere”. 

Trump imposed tariffs on European imports to reduce the US trade deficit, will reduce US troops and their costs in Europe, requires Europe pay for its own defense, no longer wants to pay for Ukraine, but will provide US weaponry, if Europe pays for them.

Per US Bureau of Economic Analysis, foreign entities had US holdings (all kinds) of $70.54 trillion and US entities had foreign holdings (all kinds) of $42.96 trillion, a gap of $27.54 trillion, at end 2025.

The growth of this gap led to the Rust Belt; Watt Street-brokered buyouts of US companies by foreign companies, Dutch/Belgium Agri-businesses owning more than 50% of all US food supermarkets in the eastern US, to provide self-space for European products, etc.

Income paid to foreign entities on their US holdings was $6.26 trillion in 2025, income paid to US entities on their foreign holdings was $5.15 trillion in 2025, for a net outflow of $1.11 trillion in 2025; outflows get bigger as gaps get bigger.

NOTE: The largest creditor nations at end 2025 were Germany $4.24 trillion; China $4.0 trillion; Japan $3.5 trillion.

Lee Zeldin, US EPA Administrator During Hearings Before the US Senate

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin calls out Democrat Senator Sheldon WhiteClub: “I'm not going to take morality lessons from people who join, you know, all‑white country clubs.”

Zeldin explained: “When predictions are made in the past… will have a range of the pessimistic to the optimistic. And to justify, for example, the 2009 endangerment finding, they were adopting the most pessimistic views of the science.

Now, when you get to 2026, great news, you're able to rely on present day facts in 2026, rather than any bad assumptions from 2009.

And just because you take exception when a member of Congress says in January of 2019, in 12 years the world's about to end, if we're sitting here today saying, well, gosh, it's only four years and nine months left, I don't think the world is about to end, they want to vilify you as if you're denying science.

I mean, I just saw a clip yesterday where Al Gore was talking about global freezing. I'm having trouble keeping up. I thought it was global warming, and now it's global freezing.

And I don't know what kind of money is made. You want to know how they’re making money from their climate grift.

Well, what won't get referenced by your colleagues on the opposite side of the aisle, who bring up the greenhouse gas reduction fund is that the money was going to former Obama and Biden officials.

The money was going to Democratic donors. The conflicts of interests that we saw. The amount of self-dealing, the unqualified recipients.

The Climate United Fund CEO was a special assistant in OMB during the Obama–Biden administration. They received $6.9 billion dollars. And we could go down the list with that entity.

You go through the Coalition for Green Capital, about a Biden–Harris climate advisor serving on the board or joining the board in ’23 while the organization was applying for GGRF.

Power Forward Community CEO, CEO of Fannie Mae during the Obama–Biden administration.

If we had 10 more minutes, I could just go through conflicts of interest. They're not offended by that.

So, we just want to stick to the truth. We want to stick to the to the science. And if you don't agree with them, you don't follow their logic, well, they'll want to vilify you.

But hey, as long as we stay true to these facts, it's good to go.

I told Senator Sheldon WhiteClub today that I won’t be listening to, or caring about, any of his lessons on morality knowing that he joined an all-white Rhode Island Country Club.

I’m also done with the likes of AOC, Al Gore, John Kerry, and the rest of the lying cabal that make stupid climate predictions, plunder tens of billions of tax dollars, enrich their well-connected allies, and are committed to strangulating out of existence entire sectors of our economy.

Climate alarmist AOC wants to be taken seriously while also insisting the world is imminently about to end due to climate change (Just under 5 years remain on her nutty Jan 2019 prediction that only 12 years of life are left on Earth).

Al Gore is now speaking publicly about his concern with global freezing after decades of grift-talking about global warming.

“Within the decade there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro,” said Gore in 2006 (There’s still snow on Kilimanjaro year-round).

Gore also predicted in 2009 ice-free Arctic summers within 5-7 years.

John Kerry warned in 2009 that the Arctic would be ice-free by 2013.

All these people, and their followers, are dishonest, power-hungry hacks.

The GREEN NEW SCAM is DEAD!!!”

NOTE:

Wind, solar, etc., have caused major distortions of the electrical systems in many countries.
Infrastructures are required to create/support/retire wind, solar, etc.

Ending wind, solar, etc., is similar to recovering from the damage of a major war.

Europe has lots of experience recovering from many wars during the past 500 years, but that has come to an end, because Europe lost its colonies to suck from.
It tried to suck from the US, but Trump is telling them no more sucking, stand on your own.

Major panic and hand wringing is the result. 

The European elites are desperate to get to reliable fossil fuels from the Caucasus, Caspian Sea, etc., and are financing Ukraine as a proxy battering ram “for as long as it takes” to get at them.