For reference, a modern coal fired power plant costs $3,000 per MW.
You read that right. The cost of those Norwegian offshore wind turbines is 1,700 times the cost of a coal fired power plant.
There are three cost elements in any power project -- capital costs, operating & maintenance costs, and fuel costs. Even with zero fuel cost, these renewable power plants cannot overcome the astronomically high capital cost. And this is before factoring in the abysmal capacity factor of renewable plants. They just don't produce power very often.
I'm old enough to remember when liberals went absolutely nuts over the visual blight of 23 offshore oil platforms. Where is the outcry over THOUSANDS of offshore wind turbines.
Shoot a single endangered bird. Go to prison.
Chop up thousands in windmills, call it saving the planet, and you are a Leftist hero.