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Major Offshore Wind Company Takes Huge Losses After Struggling To Get More Biden Bucks
Daily Caller ^ | August 30, 2023 | Nick Pope

Posted on 08/30/2023 5:09:53 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA

A Danish offshore wind company with major projects in the U.S. has taken huge losses Wednesday after warning about its so-far unsuccessful effort to get more federal subsidies, according to Reuters.

Orsted stated Tuesday that it anticipates that its three developments in U.S. waters may be $2.3 billion less valuable than anticipated, in part because the firm is having trouble receiving more tax credits from the Biden administration, according to Reuters. Other problems the firm’s projects face include supply chain backups and rising interest rates that make refinancing difficult.

“The situation in U.S. offshore wind is severe,” Orsted’s CEO, Mads Nipper, said to reporters on a conference call, according to Reuters. The company may cut its losses and walk away from its U.S. portfolio, according to Windpower Monthly, a potential move which would be a major setback to the Biden administration’s offshore wind ambitions

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenbucks; climate; energy; federalsubsidies; fedsubsidies; offshore; orsted; wind; windmills; windpower
America Last. You will own nothing, live in the dark and like it.
1 posted on 08/30/2023 5:09:53 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA
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To: ConservativeInPA

I hate those GD worthless, inefficient windmills. What a stupid stupid idea.


2 posted on 08/30/2023 5:19:40 PM PDT by Bullish (Either we don't see it coming or they don't... But somebody's got it coming.)
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To: ConservativeInPA
--- "Major Offshore Wind Company Takes Huge Losses After Struggling To Get More Biden Bucks"

Translation -- without government money, the whole thing is not profitable. Scam. Complete scam. Welfare for the rich and politically connected, assigning losses to the taxpayer. Great scheme while it works. When it doesn't....

Solyndra. Proterra. The future. Losses. Bankruptcy.

3 posted on 08/30/2023 5:29:19 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Wipe out your huge capital gains with a few bankruptcies.

That’s how the big boys play the game.


4 posted on 08/30/2023 5:31:24 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman
--- "Wipe out your huge capital gains with a few bankruptcies. That’s how the big boys play the game."

Very well put. Kudos.

5 posted on 08/30/2023 5:35:27 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: ConservativeInPA

The green energy scam was only possible in an era of zero interest rates, growing government debt, low inflation, cheap oil and gas because of the shale-oil boom, globalism, and a quiescent China and Russia.

ALL of those trends have reversed hard.

Green energy will fail and governments will collapse if they continue to promote it


6 posted on 08/30/2023 5:35:34 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Bullish

Those giant wind farms——

“The most common external wind turbine failure is typically damage to the blades caused by bird strikes, lightning strikes, rainfall, blade furniture detachment, delamination, leading-edge corrosion or blade cracks.”

Nearly 120 wind turbines catch fire each year, according to research.
Cotes.com website

Wind blade broke off——”dangerous”—
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALO8hnwyY0A

Actual video of giant blades breaking off in a storm:
https://www.wind-watch.org/video-turbinecollapses.php


7 posted on 08/30/2023 5:42:50 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ConservativeInPA

RE: Get More Biden Bucks....

Big Biden Bucks Bonanza Barrow Blast Breaks Bangor Bank.
(Inflation devalued money from a run on a bank in Bangor, Maine was carried in expensive new wheelbarrows to pay for groceries.)
💰💰💰💰


8 posted on 08/30/2023 5:54:15 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: ConservativeInPA

In the business of receiving taxpayer money for what taxpayers wouldn’t buy on their own initiative. What a great economy.


9 posted on 08/30/2023 6:06:24 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

Killing whales and the environment. Where do we bury the old blades? How old is old?


10 posted on 08/30/2023 6:11:40 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: fruser1

“What a great economy.”

What a great country...we used to be.


11 posted on 08/30/2023 6:52:50 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Boardwalk

Just one of many wildmill graveyards:

https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&hs=nZb&sca_esv=561498426&q=windmill+farm+blades+stacked&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjbxeb56oWBAxXTD1kFHdHIAR8Q0pQJegQIBhAB&biw=1388&bih=735&dpr=1.25


12 posted on 08/30/2023 7:22:47 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“CEO, Mads Nipper said”

Name right out of a Babylon Bee write up. But “Wind Power” financial losses are not a joke other than on taxpayers.


13 posted on 08/30/2023 7:44:40 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

“The company may cut its losses and walk away from its U.S. portfolio, according to Windpower Monthly, a potential move which would be a major setback to the Biden administration’s offshore wind ambitions”

plain ol’ extortion: give us more billions or we make sure your windmill policies go up in smoke ...


14 posted on 08/30/2023 8:33:11 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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To: catnipman
---- "plain ol’ extortion: give us more billions or we make sure your windmill policies go up in smoke ..."

Exactly.

Extortion writ large now, and extorting whole governments.

15 posted on 08/31/2023 2:42:50 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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