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<blockquote data-quote="Up Y'oars" data-source="post: 295729" data-attributes="member: 764">Wind energy has been subsidized HEAVILY the past decade or two.&nbsp; It is a cheaper day-to-day price when considering the comparisons to coal generation (labor costs), but when you include the overall cost (ex. leases, building, decommission, repairs, days of zero wind, etc.) it is only marginal.&nbsp; The problem is that wind energy cannot produce base LOAD energy; that basic power necessary at any given point of the day/night the consumer demands.&nbsp; Because of not having that base LOAD all of the energy companies will be forced to buy off of the energy market wherever the wind is currently at (given 'x' hour of the day).In the next five to six years you can count on your electrical rates tripling in cost as each of these coal generators shut down.&nbsp; We'll no longer have the energy here in NoDak and will have to buy it hour by hour which is way more expensive than the day-ahead market.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Up Y'oars, post: 295729, member: 764"] Wind energy has been subsidized HEAVILY the past decade or two. It is a cheaper day-to-day price when considering the comparisons to coal generation (labor costs), but when you include the overall cost (ex. leases, building, decommission, repairs, days of zero wind, etc.) it is only marginal. The problem is that wind energy cannot produce base LOAD energy; that basic power necessary at any given point of the day/night the consumer demands. Because of not having that base LOAD all of the energy companies will be forced to buy off of the energy market wherever the wind is currently at (given 'x' hour of the day). In the next five to six years you can count on your electrical rates tripling in cost as each of these coal generators shut down. We'll no longer have the energy here in NoDak and will have to buy it hour by hour which is way more expensive than the day-ahead market. [/QUOTE]

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