By Jo Nova
The bottomless pit of public spending strikes again
Germany added 14 gigawatts of wind power in the last 5 years, however the total amount of electricity produced is still around 106 Terawatt hours.
Imagine how much money they could have saved if they hadn’t bothered to add more wind turbines?
Wind power is like a perpetual public money vacuum.
From Pierre Gosselin at No Tricks Zone:
Germany’s Die Welt: “Too Much Is Too Much” … Green Energies Are Cannabalizing Each Other!
Wetzel describes this as a ‘wind power puzzle’ and discusses several possible causes:
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- Several years with weak wind conditions,
- More frequent curtailments of wind turbines due to grid bottlenecks,
- The expansion of wind farms at weaker inland locations,
- So-called shading or ‘wind theft’ effects between wind turbines.
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Australia has already done the same experiment. No matter how much wind power we add to the grid we can’t seem to get the bare minimum to increase, (the dark green columns at the bottom).
ie. Wind power remains 95% Useless.
The Australian experiment thanks to WattClarity
The maximum amount of wind power increases but the part we can rely on to always be there, barely exists.