[cicero2k]

The only way the industry managed to fool politicians into accepting this crazy deal was by subterfuge — referring to turbines only in terms of their ‘capacity’ (i.e. what they could produce if the wind was blowing at optimum speeds 24 hours of every day). The truth is that their average actual output is barely a quarter of that figure.

Yep. Barely 25% a capacity factor when your average coal-gas-nuclear plant gets 90%

How no one warned on this, I have no idea.

We had to wait for the numbers to come on a large scale for this collapse to happen.

[trappedincanuckistan]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9559656/Germanys-wind-power-chaos-should-be-a-warning-to-the-UK.html

[Vince Ferrer]

How no one warned on this, I have no idea.

On projects like this, the anti-wind people would just never be invited to meetings or to give testimony.