Six Ways Wind Farms Increase Electric Bills
A new paper from the Net Zero Watch demonstrates conclusively renewables increase electricity bills — indeed, it is almost impossible that adding a new wind farm to the grid would ever reduce consumer prices
The author of the paper, Net Zero Watch director Andrew Montford, outlines a series of effects that a new wind farm will have on bills, showing that in each case, households will take a financial hit.
As Mr Montford explains:
“In order to reduce bills, a new generator generally has to force an old one to leave the electricity market — otherwise there are two sets of costs to cover.
But with wind power, you can’t let anything leave the market, because one day there might be no wind.”
But as well as adding excess capacity to the grid, renewables also have a series of other effects, each of which will push bills up further.
Mr Montford says:
“Renewables need subsidies, they cause inefficiency, they require new grid balancing services that need to be paid for; the list of all the different effects is surprisingly long.
There is only one way a wind farm will push your power bills, and that’s upwards.“
The paper is entitled The Six Ways Renewables Increase Electricity Bills. It is available in plain text below or can be downloaded as a PDF by clicking on the cover image.
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A few questions never answered by advocates of wind farms:
1) How much electricity do they actually produce, versus what was promised in the shiny sales pitch?
2) How many miles/kilometers of wire do we need to connect the windmills to the power grid?
3) How expensive is that wire?
4) What happens when the rotor bearings fail?
5) How much does that cost to fix?
6) When they eventually die, who removes them and pays for burial costs?
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