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Price of Wind Power Becoming Competetive
From the Boston Globe:
--------- Wind has become a larger part of the energy mix as a result of government policies requiring utilities to acquire power from renewable sources such as wind and solar. Massachusetts, for example, requires utilities to get 15 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020. Such policies have created markets for wind, leading to more competition, better technology, larger projects, and ultimately lower prices. Over the life of the 15- to 20-year contracts, utilities would pay an average price of less than 8 cents per kilowatt hour, compared with projected prices of about 10 cents for coal, 11 cents for nuclear, and 14 cents for solar. ---------- Those are impressive numbers for anyone who has followed the history of renewable power sources. Solar has also come down a lot in price but still needs additional cost reductions to become competitive. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
Price of Wind Power Becoming Competetive
From the Boston Globe: --------- Wind has become a larger part of the energy mix as a result of government policies requiring utilities to acquire power from renewable sources such as wind and solar. Massachusetts, for example, requires utilities to get 15 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020. Such policies have created markets for wind, leading to more competition, better technology, larger projects, and ultimately lower prices. Over the life of the 15- to 20-year contracts, utilities would pay an average price of less than 8 cents per kilowatt hour, compared with projected prices of about 10 cents for coal, 11 cents for nuclear, and 14 cents for solar. ---------- Those are impressive numbers for anyone who has followed the history of renewable power sources. Solar has also come down a lot in price but still needs additional cost reductions to become competitive. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com Wayne, a local who works for a local coal fired electric plant predicts that coal furnace energy sources will be a thing if the past within the next 40-50 years. |
Price of Wind Power Becoming Competetive
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:03:27 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote: From the Boston Globe: --------- Wind has become a larger part of the energy mix as a result of government policies requiring utilities to acquire power from renewable sources such as wind and solar. Massachusetts, for example, requires utilities to get 15 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020. Such policies have created markets for wind, leading to more competition, better technology, larger projects, and ultimately lower prices. Over the life of the 15- to 20-year contracts, utilities would pay an average price of less than 8 cents per kilowatt hour, compared with projected prices of about 10 cents for coal, 11 cents for nuclear, and 14 cents for solar. ---------- Those are impressive numbers for anyone who has followed the history of renewable power sources. Solar has also come down a lot in price but still needs additional cost reductions to become competitive. Wayne, a local who works for a local coal fired electric plant predicts that coal furnace energy sources will be a thing if the past within the next 40-50 years. === Not being a coal miner, or owning stock in one, I'd have to say that's a good thing. It might even happen sooner if alternate energy sources continue to become cheaper. Some of the worst air polution I've ever experienced was in London during winter months, and it was all from coal heating. So called "clean coal" always seems to be somewhere off in the future, if it is even possible. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com |
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Price of Wind Power Becoming Competetive
On 11/15/18 11:57 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 11/15/2018 11:21 AM, wrote: On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:03:27 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote: From the Boston Globe: --------- Wind has become a larger part of the energy mix as a result of government policies requiring utilities to acquire power from renewable sources such as wind and solar. Massachusetts, for example, requires utilities to get 15 percent of their power from renewable sources by 2020. Such policies have created markets for wind, leading to more competition, better technology, larger projects, and ultimately lower prices. Over the life of the 15- to 20-year contracts, utilities would pay an average price of less than 8 cents per kilowatt hour, compared with projected prices of about 10 cents for coal, 11 cents for nuclear, and 14 cents for solar. ---------- Those are impressive numbers for anyone who has followed the history of renewable power sources.* Solar has also come down a lot in price but still needs additional* cost reductions to become competitive. Wayne, a local who works for a local coal fired electric plant predicts that coal furnace energy sources will be a thing if the past within the next 40-50 years. === Not being a coal miner, or owning stock in one, I'd have to say that's a good thing.* It might even happen sooner if alternate energy sources continue to become cheaper.* Some of the worst air polution I've ever experienced was in London during winter months, and it was all from coal heating.* So called "clean coal" always seems to be somewhere off in the future, if it is even possible. As a kid I remember all the brick smokestacks on the buildings lining the highway heading into Boston.* They were always bellowing white steam. My younger brother who was only about 4 years old at the time thought they were "cloud makers". In the good old days, when I worked for The Associated Press in West Virginia, Ohio, and Kentucky, I covered a lot of stories about the coal industry and its workers, including the Consol No. 9 coal mine disaster near Farmington, West Virginia. I never encountered one coal miner or coal miner family who was pleased about working in the mines, or who wanted a child of the family working in the mines. Sadly, then, and now, there weren't many choices for employment in "coal country." It is horrific work, it creates all manner of poisonous pollutants, and many miners die from it, either in the mines or years later from diseases they contract. I had a couple of friends who were local heroes trying to protect miners. This fellow, who died in 1974, was one of them: CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 14 (UPI)—Dr. I. E. Buff, a leader of the effort to eradicate black‐lung disease among miners, collapsed and died today at his office here. His age was 66. Dr. Buff was known as severe critic of the coal industry and champion of the miners. He took verbal potshots at just about everyone, and his favorite targets were politicians. His career and national exposure reached its peak in 1969, when he was the spokesman for thousands of coal miners who marched on the Capitol seeking black‐lung benefits. Later that year, the Congress passed the Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Although trained as a heart specialist, Dr. Buff became more interested in lung ailments, particularly coal miners’ pneumoconiosis, more commonly known as black‐lung disease, which occurs from long exposure to coal‐mine dust. from the NY Times Dr. Buff received a significant number of death threats back in the day. |
Price of Wind Power Becoming Competetive
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