"Deepwater Wind's initial project will raise state and local governments' electric bills by a combined $1.5 million in its first year,"
Posted on 02/22/2011 7:28:44 PM PST by Nachum
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - Deepwater Wind's initial project will raise state and local governments' electric bills by a combined $1.5 million in its first year, according to documents reviewed by the Target 12 Investigators.
Municipal electric bills will increase by a total of $1 million while state government's bill will rise by $476,630, according to an estimate commissioned by National Grid from Energy Security Analysis Inc. The cost would rise by 3.5 percent every year for the next two decades.
The estimate was included in a document National Grid asked the R.I. Public Utilities Commission to seal from the public view as the panel weighed whether to approve a controversial 20-year contract between Deepwater and Grid. The PUC denied that request, opening the town-by-town breakdown up for public inspection.
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“Saving da planet” in order to “create new jobs” can get really expensive for the taxpayers and consumers. Really stupid too!
Wind power must be stopped . It is an economic and ecological disaster.Have you seen these stupid things on the horizon? The generators burn up if they don’t freeze in 18 months. When the wind dies, thank God, because you just went back to coal or natural gas at half the cost!! This is Al Gore crap. Get rid of it.
It was a mighty wind, consisting mostly of flatus.
Let’s see. For every wind power generator there must be a conventional generator for backup when the wind is not blowing. I assume RI got the conventional generators free with a twofer for each wind generator purchased! Those RI government people are really sly and cunning shoppers.
For Con Men and hustlers who paint themselves green and hand cash to politicians.
Everyone else who has to pay the bill gets screwed.
That state can easily power itself with a single nuke plant. In fact, all states should be their own grids.
"Deepwater Wind's initial project will raise state and local governments' electric bills by a combined $1.5 million in its first year,"
Hear hear!
Well, the obvious problem is that they didn’t build enough of them. </s>
I still like the idea of putting bicycle pinwheels connected to generators on the roofs of automobiles, thus eliminating the need for fuel after sufficient speed has been achieved.
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Well I’m looking forward to when GE puts out a new baseball hat (funded by taxpayers) that when you walk into a train station where there is no train, the beanie cap will recharge your iDiot device of the month.
It is a rip off that has been done before and did not work. Gov. subsidies making some crooks rich.
I’m mounting a spinnaker on my minivan’s hood.
Photoshop, anyone?
They are pushing this junk on us in Oklahoma. They admit it will cost more. How do we stop the enviro-nuts from taking us back to the stone age?
The FR thread that you linked links to the article.
It says the coal and nat gas plants went off line first but I guess you can blame it on the wind if you want to. The article also mentions that there was plenty of power in North Texas. The transmission lines were in adequate to get the power out to west Texas.
That problem has been addressed. A few months after this incident PUC announced the new transmission lines and awarded contracts in Jan 2009.
Also, this incident demonstrated the need for anemometers. When a power plant goes off line they pre-notify ERCOT. When output from the windmills falls off, ERCOT had no way of knowing it until after the power is absent from the grid. With the use of anemometers ERCOT gets advanced warning.
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