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Wind power requires subsidies to work. Meaning shafting the end consumer. Period https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/02/21/texas-taxpayers-pay-the-fre
by DrNohj 7y ago
Wind power requires subsidies to work. Meaning shafting the end consumer. Period
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/02/21/texas-taxpayers-pay-the-french-government-for-wind-power-and-then-pay-the-grid-to-take-it/#3cb2f63046e9 https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckdevore/2019/02/21/texas-ta...
- ben_w 7y agoThis article explicitly mentions the cost without subsidies: ”””The levelized cost of electricity, which eliminates the impact of incentives and subsidies on the final prices, places wind below $40/MW-hr in 2018. The cheapest form of natural gas generation was roughly $10 more per MegaWatt-hour. Note that, as recently as 2015, the US' Energy Information Agency was predicting that wind's levelized cost in 2020 would be $74/MW-hr.”””