The Real Cost of Government Mandated Wind and Solar

The government and big financial institutions promote a fraudulent analysis of the cost of solar and wind electricity.

Their narrative is that wind and solar are competitive with traditional fossil fuels and that the cost of wind and solar is rapidly dropping.

The basis of the fraud is a simple comparison of the cost per kilowatt hour at the plant fence for electricity produced by wind or solar versus electricity produced by a traditional plant.

Even if wind power provisioning is sufficient to carry the typical peak load when the wind is blowing strong, most of the time the wind is not blowing strong and windpower is performing at a much lower level, on the average about 30% of maximum capability.

The consequence is that as you to boost the role of wind power, wind power must be overprovisioned so that it can make a significant contribution when the wind is moderate.

The fact that wind or solar has to be 100% backed up, usually by fossil fuel plants, means that the wind or solar does not displace the full cost of the fossil fuel electricity, but only the marginal cost, or the cost of the fuel.

Why would a utility buy wind or solar electricity that does not replace their existing plant and costs much more than the marginal cost of running their existing plant? The deep irrationality of the government mandates is illustrated by the fact that California pays Nevada to accept green electricity.
 

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