Its hard to tell where to begin with all these lies.
The PPH has written an article touting wind again. It says 66 gigawatts of wind power has been installed nationwide, which we all know is actually only a quarter of that amount or 17 gigawatts. They say 66 gigs is about 5% of the total US consumption, but at 25% it is minuscule. They also say that the average cost of wind is now 2.35 cents per kilowatt hour, but is only like that because of the generous subsidies. This might be a reply alert.
http://www.pressherald.com/2015/08/10/department-of-energy-reports-...
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Comment by Eric A. Tuttle on August 12, 2015 at 9:07am
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Obama's Pet Solar company that he provided so much money to back in the days of GM going bankrupt along with the Banks etc, Cash for Clunkers etc, also is defunct per a report in 2013.
Obama Budget Aims to Make Solar and Wind Incentives Permanent
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Obama-Budget-Aims-to-Ma...
FAIL: US HAS WASTED $154 BILLION ON 'RENEWABLE ENERGY'
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2013/12/05/energy-subsidies...
List: 36 Of Obama’s Taxpayer-Funded Green Energy Failures
http://nation.foxnews.com/obama/2012/10/20/list-36-obama-s-taxpayer...
Notice Vestas, a foreign company received bailout (economic incentive) funds from the U.S.
Founded in 1898 as a blacksmith shop in western Denmark, we started producing wind turbines in 1979, and have since gained a market-leading position with more than 64 GW of installed wind power and more than 42 GW under service globally. http://www.vestas.com/
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Comment by Brad Blake on August 11, 2015 at 11:08pm
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Typical of the PPH to pick up and re-print a Washington Post story. The WP has NEVER printed anything critical of the wind industry. I know because I get the WP in my email every day. They are shills for Obama's renewables policies and promote wind power. There will never be a wind turbine anywhere within 100 miles of Washington, DC. Just like the closest industrial wind turbines (except the solo failure in Saco) to Portland are 65 miles away in Woodstock on Spruce Mt.
It is easy to shill for an industry that wouldn't exist except for unduly favorable tax credits, subsidies, selling MWs as Enron-inspired RECs and heinous mandates when these out of scale & out of place monsters are nowhere near you. It is even easier to practice poor one-sided journalism when a special interest lobby is filling you up with propaganda and you are too lazy to ask critical questions or find out, as Paul Harvey famously said "the rest of the story".
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the 2.35¢ / kWh is either misquoted, misplaced or an outright lie, as the national average ADDS that amount to their current rates.
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Scheduled to come online in 2015
In 2015, electric generating companies expect to add more than 20 gigawatts (GW) of utility-scale generating capacity to the power grid. The additions are dominated by wind (9.8 GW), natural gas (6.3 GW), and solar (2.2 GW), which combine to make up 91% of total additions. Because different types of generating capacity have very different utilization rates, with nuclear plants and natural gas combined-cycle generators having utilization factors three to five times those of wind and solar generators, capacity measures alone do not directly show how much generation is actually provided by new capacity of each type. Nearly 16 GW of generating capacity is expected to retire in 2015, 81% of which (12.9 GW) is coal-fired generation.
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=20292
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Last updated: March 31, 2015
- Wind = 4.4%
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
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West Coast wind patterns lead to below-normal wind generation capac...
Approximately 20% - 45% lower than normal
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 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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