The Pres gave a speech in Las Vegas at the National Clean Energy Summit and threw out a bunch of pure fiction. Read it and see if you can't poke a few holes in it.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/renewable-energys-success-could-m...
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[My Thoughts, for what they are worth]
could fall - very soon (Blowing Smoke words (for a Democratic Candidate ?) self importance )
competitive with - natural-gas-fired power plants (not Coal)
Production Tax Credit for wind, a key federal incentive that the wind industry has fought hard to protect. (They still need these to survive)
expected [production capacity], (never tested to actual output for each unit)
enabling aggressive wind power pricing," (not with current incentives but if more)
dropped from nearly 7 cents/kWH in 2009 to 2.35 cents/kWh in 2014 (when averaged across the grid, wholesale prices to other suppliers)
"focused on a sample of projects (smaller coop systems and farm units)
wind power very favorable (but cannot yet compete)
gas-fired power plants through 2040 (costs not established for uncompleted projects)
study shows the wind industry is cost competitive without subsidies. (Hope they convince Congress to remove them
making solar and wind "competitive even without subsidies," (Hope they convince Congress to remove them
The administration supports extending renewable energy subsidies indefinitely, (Shows he does not believe what he blurts out from his prepared speech)
from video speech; solar no up-front costs (means you will pay forever.... )
Lets face it, this guy has been blowing smoke that Mr. Clinton didn't inhale.
(Obama did it for him)
U.S. Sen Angus King
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
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 - 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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