US Wind Power Output Collapse: What Happens When the Wind Don’t Blow
Posted: May 14, 2016 Filed under: Fact Check, Renewables, Unreliables, Wind Farms | Tags: Climate Change, Industrial Wind, Renewable energy, Rent seekers, Scam, unreliables, Wind Farms Leave a commentshock news. #unreliables
Rock-a-bye baby, on the treetop,
When the wind blows, the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.
When your power generation ‘system’ depends on the whim of the Wind Gods, results can differ from the operators’ professed claims.
In the US, the Gods haven’t blessed the wind industry with much fortune of late: despite a rapid increase in (massively subsidised) wind power capacity, wind power output has slumped (and babies nesting in treetops can sleep easy).
States subsidized for wind power saw decline in production
Andrew Follett
The Daily Caller
21 April 2016
States with lucrative subsidies for wind power such as California, Oregon and Washington saw huge decreases in the amount of wind power generated during 2015, according to a Thursday report by the Energy Information Administration.
The only major state to see large increases in its wind…
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