WIND AND SOLAR ARE MOLLY-CODDLED UP TO THEIR ARMPITS

WIND AND SOLAR ARE MOLLY-CODDLED UP TO THEIR ARMPITS

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Grossly Excessive Financial Incentives

About 45 to 50% of the “wind, all-in LCOE” (levelized cost of energy) of wind turbine projects consists of various financial in incentives. I have the 20-y spreadsheets.

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If no financial incentives were available, Owners would have to sell their electricity at almost 2 times the price, c/kWh, they now receive, which would be very bad PR for wind.

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THE FINANCIAL INCENTIVES ARE THE REASON MANY $BILLIONS OF $DOLLARS ARE MADE AVAILABLE BY RICH PEOPLE WHO ARE PROFITING FROM LUCRATIVE TAX-SHELTERS, SUCH AS WARREN BUFFETT, WHILE LEGALLY SCREWING ALL OTHERS, ALL IN THE NAME OF SLOGAN "SAVING THE PLANET"

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Wind Output is Variable Almost 100% of the Time

I looked at the hour-to-hour wind output in New England (ISO-NE website) for an entire year, 8766 hours. I was bleary eyed.
I found there ALWAYS was some wind output. It was NEVER zero.

Wind output is variable almost 100% of the time 

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Counteracting Variable Wind Output

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What makes wind a grid disturber, or very expensive, or very uneconomical (take your pick) is the VARIABLE output, because OTHER generators (likely gas-fired power plants) HAVE to counteract, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, the variable wind outputs, UP TO NEAR ZERO wind output, 24/7/365, year after year.

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Nearby Grids Counteracting Variable Wind Output

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By exporting excess electricity, such as to Quebec, via not-yet-existing HV DC lines, NE generators will do less counteracting, but Quebec generators will do more counteracting; there is no free lunch in the real engineering world. 

NOTE: Exports from nearby grids may not be available, because they need their electricity for their own users, as happened in 2021, with France not exporting to Germany, Norway not exporting to Germany, nearby states not exporting to California, etc.

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Cost of Counteracting Variable Wind Output

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The counteracting costs imposed on the other generators will be an addition to the “all-in LCOE” of the other generators. 

Depending on grid conditions/topology, that cost addition is:

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Less than 5% at up to 5% annual wind penetration,

About 5% at about 10% wind penetration,

About 10% at about 15% wind penetration, etc., as proven in Ireland at 17% wind

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That cost addition becomes very large at high levels of wind penetration, because more and more of the other generators will be operating less economically, due to:

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1) Ramping up/down, at about 75% of rated output, to counteract, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, the variable wind outputs; more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more c/kWh 
2) Being on hot, synchronous standby, and cold standby; more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more c/kWh 
3) Having much more fuel-guzzling cold start and stops; more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more c/kWh 
4) Having much more wear and tear, more Btu/kWh, more CO2/kWh, more c/kWh.

5) Producing less, but more expensive electricity, due to inefficiently operating, at a lesser capacity factor, with wind on the grid

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NOTE: The more wind and solar on the grid, the larger the electricity quantities that need to be counteracted, and the greater the cost of the counteracting services, as proven in Germany and Ireland.

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Ignoring the Money and Environmental Impacts?

The public not looking at the wind project spreadsheets and not being made aware of wind's lifetime adverse environmental consequences, is exactly what "rich folks with tax-shelters and their protectors" want.

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Over the decades, those folks have set up nationwide PR structures to lie and cheat every-which-way to get their projects approved, built and paid for in Europe and the US.

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In that manner, wind is ARTIFICIALLY made to LOOK economically and socially palatable to the kept-ignorant/deluded/brainwashed ratepayers and taxpayers.

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The PR ideal is to make “skunk-wind" perceived as a “low-maintenance, perfumed beauty at a garden party”.

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To sum up, wind gets:
 
1) Various federal and state financial incentives,
2) Plus, free electric grid expansion/augmentation,
3) Plus, free backup/standby power plant services
4) Plus, free grid management services
5) Plus, free hazardous waste disposal during project life, and at end of life,
6) Plus, free legalized killing of bats and birds, including bald eagles, and killing of whales,
7) Plus, free legalized ruining of the fishing industry,
8) Plus, free sickening of people and animals with infrasound, which is felt, but not heard, kills whales, causes birth defects in lobsters,
9) Plus, free visual blight all over the place

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There would be no wind, solar and battery systems without the huge, politics-inspired, financial incentives.

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Thank heavens, ISO-NE has, till now, adequate backup/standby plants, plus adequate natural gas and fuel oil storage capacity near power plants, to counteract, on a less than minute-by-minute basis, the variable outputs and absences of wind and solar, 24/7/365, year after year. 

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