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When you have removed the mandates and subsidies, come see me with your arguments.
Additionally, Germany can get away with their politically aimed Energiewende because they have the rest of Europe to dump off their periodic excess production (at great expense to German rate payers). If all of Europe were using mostly unreliables like 'Germany, there would be no sink to act as safety valve for the grid.
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Once again, talking out of your ass.
40% of those imports are from Canada and another 7% from Mexico...
Most of those imports come here because we have the refineries. After refining, most of it is exported to end users.
It's a little more complicated than barrels in vs barrels out. Crude from different sources has different capabilities and uses (sweet vs sour, heavy vs light etc), so we can't use all of the products we produce or refine here and also need more of certain products than we produce.
It's based on supply and US producers have driven the supply up, OPEC no longer has the influence it had in the past. More importantly for the US that supply is now safely within our borders.
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The latest wind turbines pay for themself in 6 months.......
If they are that fantastically cheap then clearly it's time to stop subsidizing them and lift mandates.
The latest wind turbines pay for themself in 6 months.......
Are you kidding me??????
LMP's (Locational marginal price) In the MISO foot print averages somewhere south of 40 bucks per mwh.... That's what utility's pay and or get paid for energy. IF you have a 62 buck per mwh PPA with a wind developer you never make money on wind.....You can' curtail it but the make whole clause in your PPA forces you to pay regardless. The thing you avoid by curtailing wind are MISO RSG charges...... No is making money of wind unless it's the developer, in our case that would be the French.....Our gas plants run cheaper then our wind contracts.....
Study this interactive map.........https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-a...time-displays/
Also pay attention to the fuel mix chart and then tell me how you will replace all that Fossil generation with wind. AND keep the lights on !!!! https://www.misoenergy.org/
Also I will tell you the problem mentioned on this page was caused by wind....MISO is trying too figure how to explain the problem...
40% of those imports are from Canada and another 7% from Mexico.. Both domestic production and imports from Canada are are on a upward trajectory and have been for about decade, imports from the rest of the world are going down. The US is now the leading producer of crude oil in the world.
Once again you are talking out of your ass, the direct tax a German consumer pays for renewable energy is currently about 8 cents(US) per kWh. Germany guarantees renewable producers X rate because it's expensive and cannot compete with conventional sources, the wholesale rate is much lower than X. That 8 cents is used to make up the difference or in other words on top of the wholesale rate they are charging. That's before the other financial incentives like the feed in tariff's and the higher costs of conventional power driven by the use of solar and wind.
When you have removed the mandates and subsidies, come see me with your arguments.
As I said German policy is to make energy expensive to curb demand. They do that with taxes and feed in tariffs. Neither relevant to the US market. I don't need to see you with arguments. I'll just point out coal plants are being shut down in record numbers in the US.
A British study showed that wind turbines wear out faster than expected, going from a 24% load factor to only 11% after 15 years from onshore turbines. Offshore are even worse, with a load factor of 39% dropping to only 15% after 10 years. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ear...ays-study.html
Benefit to the environment is also very questionable, even in raw materials alone. Each turbine requires 1,420 tons of concrete, with 450 tons of reinforcing steel, 46,000 pounds of fiberglass/plastic in the blades, and 5,500 pounds of Neodymium in its generator. Neodymium is only mined in China, and has a devastating effect on the environment.
This site estimates a carbon footprint of 242 tons of CO2 per turbine, and that doesn't include road building and excavation for the concrete pads, or assembly. https://stopthesethings.com/2014/08/...-wind-turbine/
Good LORD! 47 cents per kWh?
We pay 10 cents in my state. No peak rates, either.
I'm beginning to think that solar and wind might be great ways to fill a short term void in supply that can be diverted wherever needs it, but economically, only coal, nuclear, and hydro seem to keep production cheap so we don't end up like Australia...
Are you kidding me??????
LMP's (Locational marginal price) In the MISO foot print averages somewhere south of 40 bucks per mwh.... That's what utility's pay and or get paid for energy. IF you have a 62 buck per mwh PPA with a wind developer you never make money on wind.....You can' curtail it but the make whole clause in your PPA forces you to pay regardless. The thing you avoid by curtailing wind are MISO RSG charges...... No is making money of wind unless it's the developer, in our case that would be the French.....Our gas plants run cheaper then our wind contracts.....
Study this interactive map.........https://www.misoenergy.org/markets-a...time-displays/
Also pay attention to the fuel mix chart and then tell me how you will replace all that Fossil generation with wind. AND keep the lights on !!!! https://www.misoenergy.org/
Also I will tell you the problem mentioned on this page was caused by wind....MISO is trying too figure how to explain the problem...
My question is why the naysayers quote results from foreign countries when we have thosands of MW operating in the United States.
Thousands of MW = GW, still a drop in the bucket for our nationwide demand for electricity.
Utilities threaten rate hikes for everything: sustainable energy projects, "aging infrastructure", storm repairs... So far my state has struck down rate hikes every time.
A typical utility wind turbine costs $4 million installed and can generate 2 MW. What's the ROI on that?
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