Wind -- The Dutch Have Lost Their Love Affair With the Wind -- Fewer Believe in Grimm's Fairy Tales

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A recurring theme on this blog with regard to wind is this: the math/science doesn't work. With that as a fact, it would only be a matter of time before folks would become disillusioned. I did not think it would happen this fast, less than a decade.

But here is yet another country whose love affair with wind is ending. But they won't give up. From Reuters:

But five years later the green future looks a long way off. Faced with the need to cut its budget deficit, the Dutch government says offshore wind power is too expensive and that it cannot afford to subsidize the entire cost of 18 cents per kilowatt hour -- some 4.5 billion euros last year.

The government now plans to transfer the financial burden to households and industrial consumers in order to secure the funds for wind power and try to attract private sector investment.

Good luck.