Posted on 10/18/2013 11:44:17 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Minnesota utility regulators on Thursday approved Xcel Energy’s plan to add four Upper Midwest wind farms that will boost its wind power capacity in the region by 42 percent.
The decision by the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) clears the way for Minneapolis-based Xcel and two energy development companies, including Geronimo Energy of Edina, to push ahead with the goal of meeting deadlines to secure lucrative federal tax credits. Regulators rejected a request by other wind energy interests to extend the review process on the four projects in Minnesota and North Dakota.
Xcel didn’t disclose the cost of the projects, including two that it will own and its customers will pay for in their rates. But the company said the projects are such a good deal that ratepayers will save $225 million over the projects’ lives.
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and part of the "green" energy mandate signed into law by former GOP guv Pawlenty.
At what cost to our feathered friends? Ban DDT and kill birds in the name of green energy.
how much will this idiocy cost taxpayers?
Money is not an issue. Obama is king. So it is written. So it shall be.
Wonder how many bald and golden eagles they plan to kill each year...
Someone ought to check the recent budget legislation to see if Congress Critters slipped in language and appropriations to exterminate bald eagles. Everything else dear to our nation is dying. Eagles may be next.
Pawlenty and Steve King must both hate eagles.
I don’t like seeing wind turbines subsidized by socialists. I don’t care whether or not they provide much power. But building and mounting a huge one would be fun, just to emit the sub-sonic (imaginary) throbbing that NIMBY commies claim causes “WAUBRA disease” and/or insanity. It will be majestic, looming high and casting moving shadows over their cars, as they drive by, staring at the cameras that stare back at them.
;-)
Oh, and those eagles—pests, I tell ya! ...crappin’ all over the place...
After the subsidy runs out, that's what the eagles will be using them for. Nesting and crapping!
At least they don’t shutdown the water supply like they do when people pee in the water.
You heard of too big to fail. These are too big for the land owner to demolish once the green energy company walked away.
someone told me that each wind turbine had hundreds of pounds of copper.
he told me not to tell anyone.
That’s awful. Where is it?
When you account for the generator windings, the lightening cables in each blade and nacelle, and of course the transmission lines, its far more than 100 pounds. The Nacelle alone has 60 pounds.
“There are two scandals here First, wind turbines are killing legally protected eagles in the name of climate change, but whatever reductions in carbon dioxide may be occurring is equivalent to a baby's burp in hurricane.
Second, the wind energy industry is lobbying to extend the 2.2 cent per kilowatt hour subsidy that has fueled the turbine building craze. Last year, this subsidy from taxpayers rang up $12 billion (that's right, BILLION.)
put those atop all the buildings in Detroit and you have the future I tells ya, where are the Photoshoppers??
It comes back to "By their fruits ye shall know them".
Wind farm bird blenders... even the original SNL cast couldn't imagine something on that scale of destruction. Not to mention that these things just decide to explode or launch debris to the ground due to excess wind. Green is the new red all right.
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