Exposing The Ridiculously High Costs Of Generating Wind And Solar Electricity

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WRITTEN BY FRANCIS MENTON ON MAR 20, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS

Exposing The Ridiculously High Costs Of Generating Wind And Solar Electricity

solar wind energyEvery place that tries increasing the percentage of electricity generation that comes from wind and sun then experiences rapidly rising consumer electricity costs.

The reasons why this happens are not complicated. Even at relatively low levels of wind and solar penetration, backup fossil fuel or other generation cannot be closed, so consumers must pay for two duplicate generation systems. [emphasis, links added]


At higher levels of wind/solar penetration, things like overbuilding, curtailment, and hugely expensive grid-scale energy storage come into play.

https://climatechangedispatch.com/exposing-the-ridiculously-high-costs-of-generating-wind-and-solar-electricity/

[Free Vulcan]

Not only is it high cost, but it has a huge land footprint v. coal, gas, and nuke, and you proportionally don't get anything close to the return in megawatts. And many of the numbers on the input of renewables to the grid are based on rated capacity, not actual generation, which for wind and solar are highly variable.

The other tricky dicky switcharooney they pull is to make big swagger claims of how much 'renewable' energy supplies the grid. What they hide is the fact that a significant amount of that is hydro, around 40%, of which almost none is newly built, and will never be allowed to be built by the environuts.

Take that out and the percentage of wind, solar, and the rest are south of 10%. How many millions of acres have been slathered with windmills and solar panels for that paltry added generation?

[verga]

Not only is it high cost, but it has a huge land footprint v. coal, gas, and nuke, and you proportionally don't get anything close to the return in megawatts. And many of the numbers on the input of renewables to the grid are based on rated capacity, not actual generation, which for wind and solar are highly variable.

The other tricky dicky switcharooney they pull is to make big swagger claims of how much 'renewable' energy supplies the grid. What they hide is the fact that a significant amount of that is hydro, around 40%, of which almost none is newly built, and will never be allowed to be built by the environuts.

Take that out and the percentage of wind, solar, and the rest are south of 10%. How many millions of acres have been slathered with windmills and solar panels for that paltry added generation?

Interesting numbers.