The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on June 24, 2023, 11:01:59 am
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Omertà on wind energy costs
By Andrew Montford (Net Zero Watch).
The cost of wind energy is not mentioned in all languages.
I know, I tend to repeat myself a bit about the cost of wind energy. How many times have I explained that the data is perfectly clear: that it is expensive; And that if it gets cheaper at all, it only goes very slowly. For onshore wind, the trend is even clearly upwards.
My tenacity on this subject is motivated by the refusal of the official circles to accept the facts. They stubbornly insist that wind is cheap, because wind farms have agreed appallingly low prices for power. And because trade associations and Whitehall take that as a starting point. [This is the so-called 'strike price'. That is the price guaranteed to the major electricity producers.]
The fact that no one has ever supplied power at such a price does not matter to these people. Nor the observation that wind farm developers all say that new construction will not go ahead without further subsidies. And of course, if you point to the hard numbers in the financial accounts of wind farms, they really don't want to know that at all.
https://www.climategate.nl/2023/06/omerta-over-kosten-windenergie/
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They have been cooking the books from day one, only looking at a small part of the equation as if it is the whole picture. It's like confining the discussion of the 'carbon footprint' of an EV to 'tailpipe emissions' without considering mining, manufacturing, and disposal/recycling.