Guest ROTFLMFAO by David Middleton
From the too fracking funny files…
ENERGY TRANSITIONS
Trump admin throws wrench into offshore wind plans
Benjamin Storrow, E&E News reporter Climatewire: Monday, August 12, 2019The Trump administration is ordering a sweeping environmental review of the burgeoning offshore wind industry, a move that threatens to derail the nation’s first major project and raises a host of questions for future developments.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, a division of the Interior Department, is ordering a study of the cumulative impact of a string of projects along the East Coast. The review comes in response to concerns from fishermen about the impact of offshore wind development on East Coast fisheries.
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The analysis throws Vineyard Wind’s future into doubt. The developer, a partnership of Avangrid Inc. and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, warned it would be difficult to proceed if BOEM delayed its environmental analysis beyond the summer. But Vineyard Wind officials sought to strike an upbeat tone after BOEM’s supplemental EIS was announced Friday.
They called the decision “a surprise and disappointment” but insisted the project “remains viable and continues to move forward” (E&E News PM, Aug. 9).
Vineyard Wind’s problems are several, according to industry analysts and those familiar with the project (Climatewire, Aug. 7). First and foremost is the availability of the investment tax credit, a federal subsidy available to wind projects. The project had anticipated taking a 24% tax credit on $2.8 billion in capital costs. That enabled the company to sign a contract with three Massachusetts utilities at a price far lower than what analysts had initially expected.
But the tax credit expires at the end of the year. While the project could still qualify for an exemption because of the permitting challenges it has faced, the logistics associated with building America’s first major offshore project makes that more complicated.
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E&E News
Vineyard Wind, welcome to our world…
If you can’t handle permitting challenges and you’re dependent on subsidies, you have no business trying to build things in the ocean.
Capitalism at risk from best alternitive with natural and no pollution & superior wind energy thats already downplayed 47% with false betz limits let alone the magneticaly controlled frictionless bearings being held back are capable of infinite values.
That ends the oil era anyway . .Einestines learning curve fact
Can I have some of what you’re toking?
Ah yes, frictionless bearings in a salt water environment. They are certainly capable of infinite values alright…..
Research from the UK shows that offshore windfarms act as refuges for marine life and fish nurseries… seals off East Anglia seek them out as feeding areas. They have no impact on commercial fishing.
There are tens of GW of wind turbines off the UK, Netherlands, Danish and German coasts and they have no impact on fishing whatever.
Have any of the posters above any idea at all about offshore wind?
Yes Griff , a lot of posters know about offshore wind .
It is ridiculously expensive & very inefficient .
The latest one to come online in the UK , Hornsea 1 , is being paid £158.75 per MWh, nearly 4 times the market price , & will continue to get that massive subsidy for 15 years , which is about its total life factor .
As well as the expense , Hornsea is responsible for the large blackout across a lot of the country last week .
Several people have screen captures of the grid details at the time which show the sequence of events . The authorities are trying to cover this up at the moment , but we will have to wait & see if the truth comes out that it was wind power which caused the problem .
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/energy/windpower/12138194/Worlds-biggest-offshore-wind-farm-to-add-4.2-billion-to-energy-bills.html
Newspaper article about Hornsea from a few years ago when the media where allowed to still tell the truth about unreliable energy .
Not that the owners of Hornsea are anyway bothered by their role in the blackout:
From the Telegraph yesterday:
-“The wind farm which contributed to a massive blackout was awarded nearly £100,000 in compensation after being ordered to reduce its output the day immediately after the power cut, the Telegraph can reveal.
Nearly one million homes and businesses were left without electricity last Friday when Hornsea Wind Farm and Little Barford gas-fired station went off grid within minutes of each other.
After getting back online, National Grid ordered Hornsea to reduce the electricity it supplied the network on Saturday night and Sunday morning entitling its owners, Orsted, to compensation.”-
Further extension to Hornsea will double its nameplate capacity – Joy (but not for us miserable consumers)
They have a huge impact on the stability of the UK National Grid.
Hahahahaha, I love it. Use the eco-loons’ obstruction tactics against them.
If, according to snikdad (above), the project would have 84 turbines, it may be difficult for fishing boats to navigate between all of them on their way out to sea or back to port. It would also spoil the view for all the rich and famous who hang out at Martha’s Vineyard every summer, even though most of them are liberals on other issues.
Normalizing the comparative value between technologies is a welcome change, which will help guide development while minimizing anthropogenic divergence.
The first wind turbine fire offshore needs to be treated exactly the same as the Deepwater Horizon accident, including the shutdown of all other offshore turbines out of the abundance of (Obama) caution.