BERLIN — The Ocean City area could play a big role in the development of offshore wind energy in the United States, according to the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA).
MEA officials were on the Eastern Shore last Friday to meet with business owners, government officials and other interested parties who may want to become involved with the offshore wind industry years before the first turbines even go up.
“There isn’t a single offshore wind turbine in place in the United States, but it’s not a new industry in Europe and other places in the world,” said MEA representative Ross Tyler.
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Do these people ever tell the truth? They talk to us like we were born yesterday or they are grossly uninformed.
ReplyDelete"The wind industry likes to tell stories about wind power in Europe and make us in the United States feel that we are woefully behind our friends across the Atlantic, imploring us to catch up.
The reality is that the European wind experience is increasingly colored by gross failure, economic problems related to unsustainable subsidies, curtailment of subsidies and citizen revolt."
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1/26/11 - Austerity pulling plug on Europe's green subsidies
3/19/11 - Wind and Solar Subsidies Drying Up In Europe
5/10/11 - The Wind Experience (in Europe)
6/18/1111 - Governor LePage: Wind Turbines Damaging Maine's Quality of Life and Mountains" (references Sweden in Denmark)
8/28/11- Wind Power Is Dying
10/4/11 - Europeans look to UMaine for answer to wind energy problems
10/30/11 - Letter from EPAW, the European Platform Against Windfarms
11/19/11 - Wind farms are useless, says Duke of Edinburgh
2/1/12 - Learning from Others’ Mistakes: What Europe’s Experience with Renewable Mandates and Subsidies can Teach Texas
3/3/12 - The windfarm delusion
5/30/12 - Spain Ejects Clean-Power Industry With Europe Precedent: Energy
6/13/13 - America should learn from Europe on wind power
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6/25/13 - Danish Government Dumps Onshore Wind
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our tax dollars will be used to subsidize this "project". it will fail...
ReplyDeleteRecently I've seen some articles highlighting abandoned wind turbines on both a small and large scale.
ReplyDeleteMy question is what provisions are being made to maintain them, and if they are abandoned, to remove them?
What is the reliability, routine and preventive maintenance experience in Europe?
There are abandoned wind farms and turbines all over this country. Numbers well into the 1000's.
ReplyDeleteThe prudent thing to do would to be to let some other state have the pleasure of being the first to host off shore wind farms and then if it's successful MD could do it. Of course when you've got goofy semi moronic omalley who hadn't ever done anything positive or successful in his life except suck off the tax payers and lie making the decisions anything prudent is beyond his scope of intellect.
Europe is broke. And we are lagging behind? Show me ONE cost study that shows offshore wind generation comes anywhere close to breaking even without a subsidy.
ReplyDeleteOr an onshore one for that matter.
You can't, because there isn't one.
it's not about wind or power it's about how a bunch of politically can use this for cover to enrich themselves at our expense. If it was such a great idea then why all the subsidies? why the need to force it on others to make it profitable but profitable of course only for themselves and others who are politically connected! total BS and you fools will pay cause you are to lazy and to stupid to get off your asses and demand change! hows that o (obama/omalley) thing working for yas?
ReplyDeleteIf it's in OC, it will fail. However, I agree that the private sector should handle this, with little to no government interference. They can't even tie their shoes.
ReplyDeleteThere is a large wind turbine in Lewes. What's the story on that? If it were successful I think someone would be touting that.
ReplyDeleteWith the salt air environment the maintenance will cost more than what they produce. Other Countries have abandoned theirs. All you have to do is look at the history.
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