It's Either the End of the Green New Deal of the End of Power as We Know It.
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Comment by Willem Post on August 12, 2026 at 10:05am
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BATTERY SYSTEM CAPITAL COSTS, OPERATING COSTS, ENERGY LOSSES, AND AGING
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/battery-system-capital-costs-losses-and-agingby Willem Post
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Utility-scale, battery system pricing usually not made public, but for this system it was.
Neoen, in western Australia, turned on its 219 MW/ 877 MWh Tesla Megapack battery, the largest in western Australia.
Ultimately, a 560 MW/2,240 MWh battery system, $1,100,000,000/2,240,000 kWh = $491/kWh, delivered as AC, late 2024 pricing. Smaller capacity systems cost much more than $500/kWh
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Annual Cost of Megapack Battery Systems; 2023 pricing
Assume 45.3 MW/181.9 MWh; turnkey cost $104.5 million; 104,500,000/181,900 = $574/kWh
Amortize bank loan, 50% of $104.5 million, at 6.5%/y for 15 years, $5.484 million/y
Pay Owner return, 50% of $104.5 million, at 10%/y for 15 years, $6.765 million/y (10% due to high inflation)
Lifetime (Bank + Owner) payments 15 x (5.484 + 6.765) = $183.7 million
Assume battery daily usage, 15 years at 10%; loss factor = 1 / (0.9 *0.9)
Battery lifetime output = 15 y x 365 d/y x 181.9 MWh x 0.1, usage x 1000 kWh/MWh = 99,590,250 kWh to HV grid; 122,950,926 kWh from HV grid; 233,606,676 kWh loss
(Bank + Owner) payments, $183.7 million / 99,590,250 kWh = 184.5 c/kWh
Less 50% subsidies (tax credits, 5-y depreciation, loan interest deduction, etc.) is 92.3c/kWhSubsidies shift costs from project Owners to ratepayers, taxpayers, government debt.
.Excluded costs/kWh: 1) O&M; 2) system aging, 1.5%/y, 3) loss factor 1 / (0.9*0.9), HV grid-to-HV grid, 4) grid extension/reinforcement to connect battery systems, 5) downtime of parts of the system, 6) decommissioning in year 15, i.e., disassembly, reprocessing, storing at hazardous waste sites. Excluded costs add at least 15 c/kWh
COMMENTS ON CALCULATION
Almost all battery systems operate at less than 10%, see top URL, i.e., new systems would operate at about 92.4 + 15 = 107.4 c/kWh. They are used to stabilize the grid, i.e., frequency control and counteracting up/down W/S outputs.
About 40% annual throughput, at about 23.1 + 15 = 38.1 c/kWh, by absorbing midday solar peaks and discharging during late-afternoon/early-evening, as in sunny California, would be extremely hard to achieve. The more solar systems, the greater the midday peaks. The c/kWh is on top of the c/kWh of electricity taken from HV grid to charge the batteries.
See top URL for Megapacks required for a one-day wind lull in New England
40% annual throughput is close to Tesla’s recommendation of 60% maximum throughput, i.e., not charge above 80% and not discharge below 20%, to perform 24/7/365 service for 15 y, with normal aging.
Tesla’s recommendation was not heeded by the Owners of the Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia. They excessively charged/discharged the system to maximize profits. After a few years, they added Megapacks to offset rapid aging of the original system, plus they added more Megapacks to increase the rating of the system.
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Regarding any project, Banks and Owners must be paid. I amortized the Bank loan and Owner’s investment
Divide total payments over 15 years by the 15-y throughput to get c/kWh, as shown.
Loss factor = 1 / (0.9 *0.9), from HV grid to 1) step-down transformer, 2) front-end power electronics, 3) into battery, 4) out of battery, 5) back-end power electronics, 6) step-up transformer, to HV grid, i.e., draw about 50 units from HV grid to deliver about 40 units to HV grid. That gets worse with aging.
A lot of people do not like these c/kWh numbers, because they have been misled by self-serving folks, that “battery Nirvana is just around the corner”.
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NOTE: EV battery packs cost about $135/kWh, before it is installed in the car. Such packs are good for 6 to 8 years, used about 2 h/d, at an average speed of 30 mph. Utility battery systems are used 24/7/365 for 15 years
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NOTE: Aerial photos of large-scale battery systems with many Megapacks, show many items of equipment, other than the Tesla supply, such as step-down/step-up transformers, switchgear, connections to the grid, land, access roads, fencing, security, site lighting, i.e., the cost of the Tesla supply is only one part of the battery system cost at a site.
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NOTE: Battery system turnkey capital costs and electricity storage costs likely will be much higher in 2023 and future years, than in 2021 and earlier years, due to: 1) increased inflation rates, 2) increased interest rates, 3) supply chain disruptions, which delay projects and increase costs, 4) increased energy prices, such as of oil, gas, coal, electricity, etc., 5) increased materials prices, such as of tungsten, cobalt, lithium, copper, manganese, etc., 6) increased labor rates.
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THE IMPOVERISHED, DYSFUNCTIONAL STATE OF MAINE
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/the-dysfunctional-stat...
By Willem Post
.The over-taxed, over-regulated, already-impoverished Maine people are super-screwed, trying to make ends meet in a near-zero, real-growth Maine economy
The Maine economy has lots of low-tech/low-pay/low-benefit, bull shit jobs
The Maine economy has lots of woke, leftist, self-serving bureaucrats., who aim to add the illegals to the US Census count to have more votes in the US house, and to add as many as possible to the voter rolls to create a Democrat, one-party state in Maine.
Screwed-over Mainers are forced to pay for poverty-stricken, illegal walk-ins/fly-ins from mostly Islamic cultures from all over, who enter the US from Third-World countries that keep no records so nothing can be vetted.The Islamic culture is alien to American culture. Muslims aim to have Sharia law take precedence over US law.
Most Muslims are the dregs of Third World countries, sent to Maine by their US-hating, leftist, woke governments, in cahoots with Soros/Biden-financed NGOs.
.Like Islamic Somalis in Maine mainly suck from various government: These unvetted, illegal, often voting aliens are getting free housing, free food, free SNAP, free EBT, free childcare, a never-empty credit card, free phones, free healthcare, free education/job training and whatever other goodies they want.
- have no skills, no training, no education, no modern industrial experience.
- will take low-tech/low-pay/low-benefit jobs at 30% less than screwed-over Mainers.
- are often good at crime, murder, rape, drug and human trafficking, and driving vehicles into native merrymakers.- the tens of millions of incompatible, subversive, walk-ins would rather undermine, instead of fight for traditional European and US values and culture.
- Islamic men force their (multiple?) wives to be pregnant, because each child is a US citizen at birth, and comes with multiple government checks attached. A total scam to screw US taxpayers.
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Borders must be closed and many millions of illegal aliens per year must be shipped back to where they came from, before they forever ruin the US culture, as they have ruined Europe, France, the UK, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc. The current course is due to widespread, cultural-suicidal empathy, stoked by Democrat-aligned influencer groups to create a one-party-Democrat state forever.NOTE: In the US, illegals often engage in payroll tax evasion, concealed-account ownership, off-the-books wage schemes, labor trafficking, and use of Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers (ITINs) without verified legal presence documentation.
Visual Ugliness of wind and Solar: Down-trodden, screwed-over Mainers have to endure the visual ugliness and noise of hundreds of windmills, that are often idle, because of too little wind year-round, and many thousands of acres of solar panels, that are often covered with snow and ice in winter; there is no solar at night. Wind and solar are totally unreliable.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/wind-power-is-not-the-...
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The cost of electricity from an offshore wind system on the US East Coast is about 15 c/kWh.New York State utilities are forced to buy at 15.5 c/kWh. That cost would be 31 c/kWh, but the equivalent of 50% US and State tax credits and other project-enabling subsidies are provided to the risk-free, lucrative tax shelters of European $developers.
Hidden Costs: These are the A-to-Z costs (windmill to land fill) almost all folks are kept ignorant about.
At a future 25-30% W/S annual penetration on the grid, based on UK and German experience:
- Onshore grid expansion/reinforcement to connect far-flung W/S systems, about 2 c/kWh
- A fleet of traditional power plants to quickly counteract W/S variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, which means more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
- A fleet of traditional power plants to provide electricity during 1) low-wind periods, 2) high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place, and 3) low solar periods during mornings, evenings, at night, snow/ice on panels, which means more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
- Pay W/S system Owners for electricity they could have produced, if no curtailment, about 1 c/kWh
- Importing electricity at high prices, when W/S output is low, 1 c/kWh
- Exporting electricity at low prices, when W/S output is high, 1 c/kWh
- Disassembly on land and at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites, about 2 c/kWh
Total: 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 11 c/kWh
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Offshore wind full cost of electricity FCOE = 30 c/kWh + 11 c/kWh = 41 c/kWh, no subsidies
Offshore wind full cost of electricity FCOE = 15 c/kWh + 11 c/kWh = 26 c/kWh, equivalent 50% subsidies
This compares with 7 c/kWh + 3 c/kWh = 10 c/kWh from existing gas, coal, nuclear, large reservoir hydro plants.
Some values increase due to inflation and as more W/S systems are added to the grid.
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Such expensive W/S electricity would have made the US even less competitive in world markets.
Any US tariffs on the European/Chinese supply of W/S systems would greatly increase their turnkey capital costs/MW and their electricity costs/ kWh.
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Europe, which lacks fossil fuels, has impoverished itself and made itself uncompetitive by “going wind and solar”
The self-serving elites of Europe, who pushed for wind, solar, batteries, etc., had no idea about all those hidden costs,
When these costs were pointed out to them by energy systems analysts in 2000, these elites, using their Media foghorn, denied, obfuscated and vilified, already for at least 25 years. It will take years and many $billions to unravel that mess.
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Girls Competing with Boys on Girls Teams: Down-trodden Maine families also have to endure the insults of government-imposed mandates of having their girls compete with “boys” on girls’ teams, and “sharing” girl bathrooms and locker rooms, and “losing” their matches to the “boys”, all as mandated by woke Governor Mills, surrounded by her cabal of idiots and her ingrown clique of bureaucrats sucking from the government tit.
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Experience of Denmark with Palestinians; Denmark keeps good recordsThe first generation (1992 arrivals):
Total accepted: 321 Palestinians
Still in Denmark by 2019: 270 people; about 84% remained.
Convicted of crimes: 204 people (63.6%).
Prison sentences: 71 people (22.1%).
Welfare dependency:
In 2003, 238 of 321 (74%) received some form of benefit.
In 2019, 176 full-time equivalents were on welfare.
Of these, 122 were on disability pensions; meaning roughly two-thirds of working-age people were on permanent pension payments.
The second generation (their children):
Total children: 999 born or raised in Denmark
Each couple has many children, because each child gets a monthly government check until 18.
Convicted of crimes: 337 (33.7%).
Prison sentences: 65 (6.5%).
This means the crime rate dropped between generations; from 63% down to 34%; but remained far higher than the Danish national average.
93-95% of Palestinians are Muslim, who do not marry Danish women.
In 2019, the Danish Justice Minister stated: “These asylum seekers should not have been let in”.
Norway, Sweden, etc., had similar experiences.
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True Norwegian Experience: Norway keeps good records
A Pakistani male, 32 years old, dressed in fancy, traditional, Pakistani garb, as if he is an important person, walks several paces in front of his 24-year-old wife, who pushes a baby carriage with 2 children, with 2 on each side holding on, a total of 6 children.
He must attend Norwegian classes to receive a signature from the teacher to continue to receive free housing, free food, free healthcare, and a free allowance for incidentals, etc.
Dressed as a Pakistani, he goes for interviews for jobs, but he has no education, no experience. He gets a signature from the employer as proof of the interview, to continue to continue sucking from various government tits.
He came as a “refuge” to Norway, at 22 years old, did not speak a word of Norwegian, married a Pakistani bride, 14 years old, brought in from Pakistan by the Norwegian government. She was pregnant a few weeks after the wedding and produce 6 kids in 10 years. Each child comes with multiple government checks attached.
Norway is rich, has a $2.3 trillion pension fund, invested in world equities, for 5 million people, of which about 500,000 are “non-Europeans and their children”.
The Norwegian government rakes off a percentage of the fund each year.
The Norwegian government brings in “refuges” to comply with Brussels mandates, which means Norway can trade in the EU as if a member, and well-off Norwegians can have vacation houses in Spain, Italy, Turkey, Greece, etc., but it also means Germans (hated WWII invaders) can have vacation houses in Norway.
Prior to Brussels mandates, no foreigner was allowed to own real estate in Norway.
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True US Experience: “SNAP/EBT moms” problem is pervasive
Women who game the welfare system (and the taxpayer) by deliberately having multiple children with multiple men and refusing to keep a father in the picture. Those kids often grow up to be “just like their parents”.
The “EBT moms” expect to live off a multitude of welfare programs. Many of these women have minimal education and work experience. They live practically for free on the taxpayer’s dime.
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Revelations of an “SNAP/EBT mom”, from X
If y’all was really smart you’d understand “kids is the biggest hustle out there”.
I don’t clock into no job,
I let Uncle Sam and baby daddies cut me a check every month. 5 kids = 5 bags.Food stamps, free rent, free healthcare, and child support on top of that.
My bills paid before I even wake up.
Everybody keep asking why I had 5 kids at age 26, because every single one come with checks attached.
My life secured, while y’all stressing over 9 to 5s.
Don’t be mad at me, be mad at you ain’t catch on to the hustle.This is the kind of “English” uttered by a SNAP/EBT “mom”, and there are tens of millions like her sucking tax dollars
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EBT food subsidies, often spent on junk foods, have had the unfortunate side effect of helping to destroy the nuclear family, creating generations of fatherless children and skyrocketing crime rates.
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Around 23% of all US households have single mothers, absent fathers.
Among black families, 47% are single-mother households, 25% in Hispanic households and 12% in white households.
About 7% of white families use SNAP/EBT, but 27% in black families and 23% in Hispanic families.
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There is a clear trend here: Single mothers and minority families are the largest contingent of welfare beneficiaries per capita and the system is designed to reward their dependency. They aspire for that “career dependency”, as revealed by above SNAP/EBT mom.,
Denmark: 72% of gang-crime convicts have non-Western background, i.e. 15% of the Danish population has 5 times the crime rate.
https://willempost.substack.com/p/denmark-72-of-gang-crime-convicts...
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Minnesota: Almost Every Somali Household with Children Receives Aid from Various Government Programs
https://willempost.substack.com/p/minnesota-nearly-every-somali-hou...
Europe, the Garden of Eden
Europe had an estimated 64.2 million unvetted, uneducated, inexperienced, foreign-born, walk-ins/fly-ins/float-ins from mostly Islamic Third World countries, who sucked from multiple government programs, at end 2025 (not counting their many children and many grandchildren born in Europe). This added to wind, solar, etc., accelerated European impoverishment.
Since 1945, Europe screwed the US out of $trillions for defense. Europe will finally be spending 3 to 5% of GDP on its own defense, instead of 1 to 2%. This added to wind, solar, etc., will further accelerate European impoverishment.
The sheeple, native folks of Europe are so screwed.
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HIGH COST OF SOLAR ELECTRICITY PER kWh
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-of-solar-electricity-per-kwh
By Willem Post
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The video linked below shows, among other things, a comparison between the
Blevin Solar Complex in Texas, a 270 MW solar complex covers 2300 acres.
Bridge City gas plant, 1200 MW, covers 26 acres, or 88 times smaller area than solar complex.
Gas plant nameplate rating 1200/270 = 4.4 times Solar Complex.
Gas plant annual production about 1200 MW x 8760 h/y x 0.8 CF = 8,409,600 MWh, 24x7x365
Solar Complex annual production about 270 MW x 8760 h/y x 0.22 CF = 520,344 MWh
Gas plant production is 8409600/520344 = 16.2 times Solar Complex
Solar Complex life about 20 – 25 years
Gas plant life about 40 - 45 years
The Solar Complex required mining ore-laden materials, extracting minerals and refining them, transporting the refined materials to a solar panel manufacturing plant. All these steps are very energy intensive, require lots of electricity, usually produced by coal in China. The panels are transported to Texas for building the Solar Complex. Ultimately the solar panels need to be stored in a hazardous waste landfill.
Solar production peaks around noontime, when demand is low. That means the OTHER plants must reduce their outputs as solar production increases in the morning, then they must increase their outputs as solar production decreases to zero during late afternoon and early evening peak hours, to maintain the production-demand balance on the grid, 24/7/365.
Then the solar production is zero from early peak hours to early morning hours the next day. That means the OTHER plant must provide the entire electricity supply for that period to satisfy demand.
In colder climates at higher latitudes, the solar capacity factors, CFs, are less, say about 0.15, which means the Solar Complex would produce a lot less electricity and would have a higher capital investment per MW.
Also, during winter, solar panels likely would be covered with snow and ice for a week or more, which means near zero solar electricity production, which means the OTHER plants must provide all electricity, 24/7/365
https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/sunblock-the-global-fight-to-save
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If little wind and solar, aka DUNKELFLAUTE, there is near-zero output of wind and solar, and a large fleet of OTHER plants, must provide the missing electricity up to demand, 24/7/365.
If the OTHER plants are insufficient, electricity needs to be imported at high wholesale prices
If too much wind and solar, much of the electricity needs to be exported at low wholesale prices
These OTHER plants must be fueled, staffed, kept in good working order to instantly provide what is missing.
The more wind and solar tied to the expanded/reinforced/more complex grid, the more OTHER plants.
THAT TWO-SYSTEM COMPLEXITY DOES NOT COME FOR FREE.
Hidden Costs: These are the A-to-Z costs (wind/solar system to land fill) almost all folks are kept ignorant about.
At a future 25-30% W/S annual penetration on the grid, based on UK and German experience:
- Onshore grid expansion/reinforcement to connect far-flung W/S systems, about 2 c/kWh
- A fleet of traditional power plants to quickly counteract W/S variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, which means more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
- A fleet of traditional power plants to provide electricity during 1) low-wind periods, 2) high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place, and 3) low solar periods during mornings, evenings, at night, snow/ice on panels, which means more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
- Pay W/S system Owners for electricity they could have produced, if no curtailment, about 1 c/kWh
- Importing electricity at high prices, when W/S output is low, 1 c/kWh
- Exporting electricity at low prices, when W/S output is high, 1 c/kWh
- Disassembly on land and at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites, about 2 c/kWh
Total: 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 11 c/kWh
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Offshore wind full cost of electricity FCOE = 30 c/kWh + 11 c/kWh = 41 c/kWh, no subsidies
Offshore wind full cost of electricity FCOE = 15 c/kWh + 11 c/kWh = 26 c/kWh, with equivalent of 50% subsidies
This compares with 7 c/kWh + 3 c/kWh = 10 c/kWh from existing gas, coal, nuclear, large reservoir hydro plants.
Some values increase due to inflation and as more W/S systems are added to the grid.
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Such expensive W/S electricity would have made the US even less competitive in world markets.
Any US tariffs on the European/Chinese supply of W/S systems would greatly increase their turnkey capital costs/MW and their electricity costs/ kWh.
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HIGH COST OF OFFSHORE WIND ELECTRICITY PER kWh.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/high-cost-of-offshore-wind-electricity-per-kwh
by Willem Post
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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.
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Hidden Costs: These are the A-to-Z costs (windmill to land fill) almost all folks are kept ignorant about.
At a future 25-30% W/S annual penetration on the grid, based on UK and German experience:
- Onshore grid expansion/reinforcement to connect far-flung W/S systems, about 2 c/kWh
- A fleet of traditional power plants to quickly counteract W/S variable output, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, 24/7/365, which means more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
- A fleet of traditional power plants to provide electricity during 1) low-wind periods, 2) high-wind periods, when rotors are locked in place, and 3) low solar periods during mornings, evenings, at night, snow/ice on panels, which means more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more cost of about 2 c/kWh
- Pay W/S system Owners for electricity they could have produced, if no curtailment, about 1 c/kWh
- Importing electricity at high prices, when W/S output is low, 1 c/kWh
- Exporting electricity at low prices, when W/S output is high, 1 c/kWh
- Disassembly on land and at sea, reprocessing and storing at hazardous waste sites, about 2 c/kWh
Total: 2 + 2 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 11 c/kWh
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Offshore wind full cost of electricity FCOE = 30 c/kWh + 11 c/kWh = 41 c/kWh, no subsidies
Offshore wind full cost of electricity FCOE = 15 c/kWh + 11 c/kWh = 26 c/kWh, with equivalent of 50% subsidies
This compares with 7 c/kWh + 3 c/kWh = 10 c/kWh from existing gas, coal, nuclear, large reservoir hydro plants.
Some values increase due to inflation and as more W/S systems are added to the grid.
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Such expensive W/S electricity would have made the US even less competitive in world markets.
Any US tariffs on the European/Chinese supply of W/S systems would greatly increase their turnkey capital costs/MW and their electricity costs/ kWh.
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1) 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 and refuse to frack for clean-burning gas.
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2) Because of grossly too many rules and regulations emanating from Brussels, and a lack of nuclear plant building experience, all recent nuclear plants cost $10,000+/installed kW and take 10+ years to build; China and Russia build such plants for about 6,000/kW and take about 5-6 years
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3) These elites are encouraging the displacement of native populations. A total of 64.2 million unvetted, uneducated, untrained, culturally different, non-citizens were in Europe at end 2025 (not counting their children and grandchildren born in Europe). In 2025, the A-to-Z cost was about $160 billion to grow the economy to provide goods and services for the additional people. How will Europe ever get rid of these people, before its rapidly growing population is greater than the shrinking population of natives?
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4) 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. In 2020, Germany paid for imported gas about €12 per MWh, in 2026, €60 per MWh.
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5) After NATO was established in 1949, these 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?
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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”.
For MAGA, Trump 1) imposed tariffs on European imports to reduce the US trade deficit, 2) will reduce US troops and their costs in Europe, 3) requires Europe pay for its own defense, 4) no longer pays for Ukraine, but will provide US weapons, if Europe pays for them.
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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 for survival.
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the batteries are used to store solar at midday, if there is sun, and then discharge it in late afternoon/early evening
stored at noontime prices, delivered 80% of it at peak hour prices.
What most people forget, these systems last only 15 years and lose capacity as the years go by.
If the batteries were just standing thre doing nothing, the owner still must be paid his return on investment and bank loan must still be paid off
Those two costs are at least 60% of all other costs, even after the equivalent of 50% subsidies.
After 15 years the battery systems must be land filled in a hazardous waste facility.
Europe going the wind, solar, battery way has impoverished itself, such as Germany, the UK and Spain, etc.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
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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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