Unaffordable Floating Wind Turbines Losing Money in the UK
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/unaffordable-floating-...
by Willem Post, Energy Systems Analyst
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UK 50 MW Kincardine floating wind system was placed in service on October 2021
It produced 144 GWh in 2023
It was predicted to produce 200 GWh
CF = 144000/(8766 x 50) = 0.329, a far cry from 0.457 predicted by multi-millionaire Owners
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Located 15 km off the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland, water depths 60 to 80 m
It has five Vestas V164-9.5 MW and one V80-2 MW,, each installed on WindFloat® semi-submersible platforms, designed by Principle Power.
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/10/19/worlds-largest-floating-off...
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Operating results in year 2023:
All numbers are in UK pounds; $1.33 per UK pound
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Cost = Finance 30 mil, Admin 5 mil, Other 46 mil = 81 mil
Production cost 81000000/144000 = 562/MWh
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Income = Tax credit 6 mil, Subsidy 31 mil, Sales 13.3 mil = 50.3 mil
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LOSS without subsidies = 81 – 13.3 = 67.7
LOSS with subsidies = 67.7 – 37 = 30.7
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It operates under a PPA at 92/MWh and receives subsidies at 125/MWh, for a total of 217/MWh.
https://x.com/adissentient/status/1840690466477535685
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World's first floating wind system Hywind Scotland faces shutdown for 'heavy maintenance'
.Norway's Equinor confirms component changes needed on all five Siemens Gamesa 6MW machines operating since 2017
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The 6MW turbines will be towed back to Wergeland on the west coast of Norway, as part of a maintenance program that is likely to take around four months and will disrupt power output from the project operating 24 km off Peterhead since 2017.
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All units will be reconnected back on the Hywind Scotland site when the maintenance is complete, a spokesman for the Norwegian company confirmed.
Recently, Equinor decided to discontinue offshore wind projects in Spain and Portugal and had earlier pulled out of Vietnam.
Its head of renewables told Reuters, the company may consider exiting additional markets.
“It’s getting more and more expensive and we think things are going to take more time in quite a few markets around the world”
https://www.offshore.wind.biz/2024/08/29/equinor-axes-offshore-wind...
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NOTE:
In Maine, the leftist, woke, Socialists will never stop with their unaffordable, environmental damaging, floating wind turbine wet dream, unless subsidies are reduced to ZERO
Plus, what they do not mention, to purposely keep lay people uninformed, CO2 is a life gas for growing ALL fauna and flora, including crops, on Earth.
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CO2 ppm and TEMPERATURES are near the lowest level they have been for about 600 million years
Net Zero leads to economic strangulation and CO2 suicide
There is not enough fossil fuel left for CO2 ever to be any problem
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All this is well known to the IPCC, and complicit entities, but they continue to blame, with help of the lapdog corporate media, CO2 ppm (0.042% of the atmosphere) for all ills, a big flood here, a big wind there, whereas abundant water vapor is at least 100 times more important regarding maintaining a livable earth.
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/natural-forces-cause-p...
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/hunga-tonga-volcanic-e...
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."
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