Thursday, December 08, 2011
"Dutch fall out of love with windmills"
Here's another story about windmills, and their shortcomings as to being cost effective.
I'm sure they shouldn't be totally abandoned; however, at the present time they just cannot live up to the hype...
I'm sure they shouldn't be totally abandoned; however, at the present time they just cannot live up to the hype...
Ivana Sekularac writes about them at Reuters.com. Notice who ends up paying:
"The 36 turbines -- each one the height of a 30-storey building -- produce enough electricity to meet the needs of more than 100,000 households each year.
But five years later the green future looks a long way off. Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour -- some 4.5 billion euros last year.
The government now plans to transfer the financial burden to households and industrial consumers in order to secure the funds for wind power and try to attract private sector investment."
