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Hot air over wind power
Worldwide, the blogosphere pulses with indignation about solar subsidies.
But the peculiar thing about all this wrath is how rarely it is directed at what is becoming a remarkably destructive aspect of renewable energy: its ability to drive down wholesale electricity prices.
October 21, 2012
by Pilita Clark
in Financial Times
It must be odd to be in the renewable energy business at the tail-end of 2012.
In the US, presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wants to kill off wind subsidies. In Scotland, Donald Trump has shelved plans for a hotel because he says its views will be wrecked by "industrial monstrosities" of bird-butchering wind turbines. In Canada, authorities are studying claims that living near a wind farm can give you anything from high blood pressure to headaches. Worldwide, the blogosphere pulses with indignation about solar subsidies.
But the peculiar thing about all this wrath is how rarely it is directed... [continue via Web link]
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