AS DENMARK DE-EMPHASIZES WIND POWER, GRANHOLM AND THE LEFT HEAD INTO THE WIND
Granholm’s energy answer isn’t blowing in the wind
In her State of the State speech, Gov. Jennifer Granholm outlined a restructuring of Michigan’s energy infrastructure that aims to meet this industrial state’s future energy needs with wind power.
The plan is radical but hardly new.
The governor’s policy closely parallels the failed experiment of Denmark - a similar peninsular water state that has invested billions of dollars in wind generation during the last 25 years.
In an interview with The Detroit News after her address, the governor was curiously unaware of Denmark’s experience, even though she toured Scandinavian countries in 2007 and cited them as models of an alternative energy future.
She devoted the bulk of her State of the State address to an energy policy that would wall off this state from America’s cheapest energy source, coal, and instead build thousands of windmills to power its industrial infrastructure.
In the 1970s, Denmark’s government also experiment with ridding itself of imported energy sources, namely coal.
Today, Denmark’s energy prices are the highest in Europe at a staggering 30 cents per kilowatt-hour - more than three times the cost of Michigan’s electric rates (about 8 cents per kWh), which are already high among its Midwestern neighbors.
The current Danish government has cut back drastically on putting up wind mills in Denmark - there are only offshore projects…
http://www.wind-watch.org/news/2009/02/10/granholms-energy-answer-isnt-blowing-in-the-wind/
Another liberal judged on intentions rather than results.
15% unemployment is not a great result.
But maybe if you can get those laid off union folks to build enough windmills you can keep the lights on in your empty state.
2 comments:
No surprise to me. I work for an energy company and I found out that wind power is very very expensive. That's why very few wind power projects are being implemented in North America.
You have the wrong "its" in your title. And you should read about wind energy from a more balanced source than that one. Do you know who funds that site you keep quoting?
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