Old Rocks
Diamond Member
They are buying a lot of wind power in Oklahoma, unsubsidized, you really think the utility does not have a realistic estimate of how much power the mills will actually produce?So that is why all those hyper-liberals in Texas and Oklahoma are installing windmills by the thousands.
Wind power is now being installed for less than 4 cents a kw, that is unsubsidized cost, and the price is still going down. In the meantime, the price of dirty coal, is 6.6, and going up. Solar, unsubsidized, is now cheaper than dirty coal. Civilization has moved on, in spite of the cries of agony from the 'Conservatives' of this world.
Maybe it has something to do with tax credits.
The fact is that wind only produces about 30% of its nominal rating so you may say that we installed 100 gigawatts of wind power but in actuality you'll only get 30
So now adjust the price of the install to what the output actually is rather than the nominal rating on the equipment and then see what the true cost is
Overestimating Wind Power Generation From the UK to New York State - Master Resource