The cost of windfarm cosntruction is proportional to the cost of crude oil. By delaying the Cape Cod windfarm project, Kennedy has ensured that it will cost about three times more to erect those 130 windmills than it would have 5 years ago.
Wind is mostly a waste of money and will have no real positive environmental impact and do little to reduce the cost of electricity. For every 10 megawatts of wind power we construct we have to build an additional 8 megawatts of coal/natural gas/nuclear/oil power generation as a back up. This back up power has to run all the time since wind power is intermittent - even if the wind is blowing that day and we’re getting close to 100% wind production the back up has to be running and polluting whether it’s plugged into the grid or not.