And yet one country in Europe, Holland, has used wind power for a couple of centuries.
Demark claimed 26 percent from wind and couldn’t close a single power plant. There are enormous crticisms..hardly a model for America.
Things are not well in “wooden shoe” land when it comes to wind power.......
Renewable energy meets just four percent of the Netherlands’ total energy consumption. That makes the country’s target for its share to rise 14 percent by 2020 challenging enough.
“We have come to the conclusion that the most likely targets with the current policy to be reached will be in the range of 8 to 12 percent,” said Paul van den Oosterkamp, manager of the Energy Research Center of the Netherlands (ECN), an independent institute for renewable energy.
Under the government’s new system aimed at attracting private sector involvement, known as SDE+, investors will be able to apply in four phases to participate in renewable energy projects, with government subsidies set between 9 and 15 cents per kilowatt hour of produced electricity they produce.
A spokeswoman for the ministry of economic affairs, agriculture and innovation said this would not cover the current subsidy cost of offshore wind projects.
“Some technologies like offshore wind, tidal and wave energy and solar are on average more expensive than the SDE+ maximum cost price,” said Esther Benschop in an email to Reuters.
Dutch power firms say wind remains key to meeting green energy targets but is still too expensive for them to manage alone.
Wind power is a complete disaste
"Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone)."
And yet one country in Europe, Holland, has used wind power for a couple of centuries.
The Netherlands just bypassed solar & wind for their next electric plant ... too costly and unreliable ... the hell with carbon emissions when the economy is in a crunch.
PS if they would have had a viable and efficient alternative to wind, they probably would have used it.
And what an industrial giant Holland is, dwarfing all the other countries in Europe! Other than tulips and wooden shoes, Holland is known for their massive production of what?
Mark
To grind wheat and to pump water, but not to generate electricity.
They have done the same in France and Spain.