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Wind Industry Demands Financial Bail Out;

• https://www.activistpost.com by B.N. Frank

Opposition to wind projects on land and offshore continues to increase worldwide due to economic, environmental, health, and safety issues associated with them.  Some world leaders have already given up on them and apparently some climate groups have as well.

From The Daily Sceptic:

Wind Industry Blackmails U.K. Demanding Huge Ramp-Up of Subsidies

by Will Jones

In a move that gives the lie to years of propaganda claiming falling costs, the wind industry's leading lobbyists have written to the Government threatening to abandon the U.K. unless subsidies for their companies are hugely increased.

The industry lobbyists claim that unforeseen rising costs now require three actions:

A revision to the auction rules so that the winners are not determined by lowest bids but by an administrative decision that weights bids according to their 'value' in contributing towards the Net Zero targets.

Special new targets and thus market shares for floating offshore wind, one of the most expensive of all forms of generation;

A vast increase in the budget for the fifth auction (AR5) of Contracts for Difference subsidies, with an increase of two and half times the current levels for non-floating offshore wind alone;


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