Part of a series of five posts:
To Get Wind Power You Need Oil
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458518/posts
Reliability of Renewable Energy: Wind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458519/posts
Deep De-Carbonization Would Increase Electricity Costs 20–90 Percent, Says J.P. Morgan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458520/posts
Electricity Prices Soaring In Top Wind Power States
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458521/posts
MidAmerican Energy customers rattled by electric rate hike
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3458522/posts
From the article:
Policymakers at both the federal and state level have chosen to allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to an energy source that cannot sustain itself on the energy market [] With government mandates and subsidies causing the wind industry to grow artificially fast, the ability to generate wind energy is outpacing the ability to transmit it.
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The next step in the boondoggle will be subsidized transmission construction.
I don’t see why they don’t couple wind and solar with hydro electric. Wind and solar pump water from a lower reservoir to a higher one. Electricity produced by water going from higher to lower with ability to regulate power output according to need.