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World’s First Offshore Wind Farm Retires: A Post-Mortem
Global Warming Policy Forum ^ | October 18, 2017 | I.M.J. Kelly

Posted on 10/20/2017 1:59:35 PM PDT by Twotone

It consisted of eleven turbines, each with a capacity of 0.45 MW, giving a total export capacity for the wind farm of 5 MW. The hub height of each turbine was 37.5 m and blade height 17 m, small by today’s standards. Because of its date of construction, it would have been all but totally reliant on conventional energy for its manufacture and installation. The original stated project cost was £7.16 million in 1991, which is equivalent to approximately £10 million today.[2]

During its lifetime, it delivered 243 GWh to the Danish electricity grid. This means that the actual amount of electricity generated was 22% of that which would have been generated if it had delivered 5 MW all the time for 25 years. In technical terms, it had a load factor of 0.22. From the same source we see the initial expectation was that 3506 houses would be powered annually, with a saving of 7085 tonnes of carbon dioxide per annum.[3] There was no clear indication of Vindeby’s expected lifetime. Since the average household’s annual use of energy in Denmark[4] is 5000 kWh, we can calculate that the windfarm’s anticipated energy output was 438 GWh over its 25-year lifetime. The actual total of 243 GWh was therefore only 55% of that expectation.

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KEYWORDS: agenda21; energy; windfarm
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To: blueunicorn6

And yet, it will be replaced by another wind farm.


21 posted on 10/20/2017 2:54:27 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: Twotone

Is the Global Warming Policy Forum as leftist as it sounds? If so, how did this damning document end up on their site?


22 posted on 10/20/2017 2:58:04 PM PDT by samtheman (As an oil exporter, why would the Russians prefer Trump to Hillary? (Get it or be stupid.))
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To: bigbob

The costing is a lie anyway, like everything coming from the gangreen. It did not include the interconnexion cost (which is astronomical for any offshore installation), not the maintenance cost, not the intermittancy cost, not the distmantling cost...


23 posted on 10/20/2017 3:01:18 PM PDT by miniTAX
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To: samtheman

no, they are not leftist. They are fiscally conservative, climate skeptics and energy realists.


24 posted on 10/20/2017 3:03:27 PM PDT by miniTAX
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To: Jeff Chandler
A 5 megawatt wind farm changes the climate thousands of times more than a 20 megawatt 99% uptime natural gas generator.


25 posted on 10/20/2017 3:06:06 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Reeses

Great picture.

Provenance?


26 posted on 10/20/2017 3:24:00 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Twotone

FAIL. Losers. Money gone with the wind...


27 posted on 10/20/2017 3:25:15 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Twotone

Jimmy Carter tried to push this and we all know what an idiot he is!


28 posted on 10/20/2017 3:31:58 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is a globalist scam for power!)
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To: Twotone

I visited with a 90 y/o patient today. She was ranting about Trump bringing the coal industry back to life. She said what is coal good for, there are better alternatives. I asked her what those were; of course, she didn’t know. Then she said, the sun! Why not use the roof for solar energy? I asked if she had $50,000 for solar panels. She was visibly stunned. LOL! She’s a hoot, but typically democrat clueless.


29 posted on 10/20/2017 3:36:46 PM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: 353FMG; blueunicorn6
"And yet, it will be replaced by another wind farm"

Coinciding with this was the fact the first wind farm with floating windmills was commissioned very recently offshore Scotland called Hywind and partially owned by the Norwegian Oil Company, Statoil.

In Europe and China there are many offshore windmills but only 4 have been installed in the US. California is waiting on the floating windmills.

General Electric makes offshore windmills at their factory in France.

Here we have the wind corridor for wind generation which is low population density and republican so offshore has not been needed here as it has been in Europe

30 posted on 10/20/2017 3:37:39 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: 1FreeAmerican
There was an Australian article about wind power in the US SW.

It was and is a racket.

The "investors" that took advantage of the eco stupity quickly reached the transmission saturation for a low number of turbines, and still got paid for "power generation" for turbines still in the packing crates.

31 posted on 10/20/2017 3:41:09 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Ben Ficklin

I called up our County Agent and asked him where I can get the wind seed to start a wind farm.


32 posted on 10/20/2017 3:41:34 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Twotone

How much fossil-fuel energy did it actually keep from being generated?


33 posted on 10/20/2017 3:46:58 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Islander7
"She's a hoot, but typically democrat clueless"

You are also clueless. The US produces significant amounts of renewable energy from windmills mostly in Republican states

Texas produces the most windpower and where in the last couple of weeks 3 coal plants were shut down. But Iowa, OK and Kansas produce a higher percentage.

The western plains, from Mexico to Canada, is the wind corridor.

34 posted on 10/20/2017 3:50:06 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: blueunicorn6
They had a big war over that in Kansas a few years ago.

The republicans in the eastern part of the state were backed by the Kock Brothers and were trying to shut down the wind industry in Kansas.

The republicans in the western part of the state who are farmers went to war with the Kock Brothers and won, so Kansas has exploded as a wind state are trying to install their first gigawatt.

35 posted on 10/20/2017 3:56:57 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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Apparently some interest still exist in the USA.


36 posted on 10/20/2017 4:12:59 PM PDT by deport
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Apparently some interest still exist in the USA.


37 posted on 10/20/2017 4:14:40 PM PDT by deport
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To: bigbob
So a $10Bn pound investment produced 243 GWh of power over a 25 year period, or nearly 10GWh per year. Perhaps you had better do the math.

I recall that during the California black-out crisis under Grey Davis, 1 MWh of electricity was going for about $109.

243 GWh is 243,000 MWh, multiply by $109, we get $26.5 million, convert into pounds is something like ₤10 mil.

So it cost ₤10Bn to generate a total of ₤10 mil worth of electricity.

38 posted on 10/20/2017 4:19:00 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: The Antiyuppie

Yes....that is the key and it’s priceless no matter what the cost to liberals who have their collective heads stuck somewhere....


39 posted on 10/20/2017 4:40:16 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Twotone
From the article:
>> "The project capacity is 1218 MW"


40 posted on 10/20/2017 4:41:15 PM PDT by Mike-o-Matic
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