It's So Windy in Britain That the Price of Electricity Went Negative
Jun 26, 2017 00:47:12 #
Jun 27, 2017 07:38:55 #
dirtpusher wrote:
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a26827/britain-price-of-electricity-negative/
Most developed countries have more wind generation than we do.
Jun 27, 2017 16:42:55 #
Obvious problem with the government's pricing structure. All of the capital investment and system maintenance costs didn't disappear. Typical of leftist systems.
The US has similar dysfunctional pricing schemes for so-called alternative energy. Idaho Power sometimes has to run the water around the turbines in the dams to comply...raising the price to the consumer dramatically.
The utilities have to provide power generation capacity to match when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow.
Atlas Shrugged gave some good predictions of how this came to be.
The US has similar dysfunctional pricing schemes for so-called alternative energy. Idaho Power sometimes has to run the water around the turbines in the dams to comply...raising the price to the consumer dramatically.
The utilities have to provide power generation capacity to match when the sun don't shine and the wind don't blow.
Atlas Shrugged gave some good predictions of how this came to be.
Jun 27, 2017 16:45:16 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Most developed countries have more wind generation than we do.
Certainly not is an absolute sense.
You haven't driven in the west in recent years.
We appear to be second only to China in both actual capacity and percent.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_by_country
BTW this shows the nonsense of this threads opening claim. The UK can only provide 3.5% of power from wind.
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