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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came across a laudatory article about the Scottish Hywind project, entitled \u201cThe world\u2019s first floating offshore wind farm turns 5 \u2014 here\u2019s how it\u2019s going<\/a>\u201c. It\u2019s all full of congratulations about the \u201ccapacity factor\u201d, meaning how much of the nameplate capacity it actually generates. And in fact, at a claimed 54% capacity factor, that is impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wind farm has a nameplate capacity of 30 megawatts (MW). At 54% capacity factor, that\u2019s 142 gigawatt-hours generated per year. As I said, impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s just one leetle tiny fly in the ointment \u2026 as detailed here<\/a>, electricity from Hywind is being sold to the grid, not to the consumer but to the grid, for $0.25 per kilowatt-hour. That\u2019s about four times the cost of fossil fuel electricity, and guess who is subsidizing the difference?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yep. The poor UK taxpayer. At $0.25 per kWh, that electricity subsidy is costing the taxpayers just over $26 megabucks per year, about an eighth of a billion dollars over the five years of its existence \u2026 hell of a deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the ugly reality of wind and solar. They are hugely subsidized by the taxpayers no matter where they are installed. The subsidies are both direct and indirect. They don\u2019t make money, they are not economically competitive anywhere except in the fevered green dreams of the ecolarmists who are forcing them on the poor taxpayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s the bottom line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n