A taxpayer-funded Wisconsin wind turbine only generated enough electricity to power eight homes, according to an investigation published Monday by a local Fox affiliate.
Fox News 11 in Green Bay investigated a now shut-down wind turbine built “10 years ago at a cost of $127,000.” The investigation found that about half the money for the turbine came from taxpayers before it was shut down. The investigation concluded that the wind turbine had only ever powered a maximum of eight homes.
The turbine and “more and more equipment to produce renewable energy, paid for with the help of state and federal dollars, is sitting idle,” according to Fox.
The turbine was built to comply with Wisconsin’s 2006 green energy mandate, which requires the state to get 10 percent of its electricity from wind, solar and bio-energy. The increased price of electricity caused by the mandate resulted in roughly $1 billion in lost economic activity in Wisconsin each year and 7,000 to 10,000 lost jobs, according to a study by the University of Wyoming.
Wisconsin’s mandate explicitly allows utilities to pass the additional costs of green energy onto citizens by increasing their rates. Despite the economic damage, Wisconsin is doubling down on green energy mandate, requiring that 25 percent of Wisconsin’s electricity come from green sources by the year 2025.
A total of 28 other states have or had similar policies forcing more green energy onto the power grid. Now, with more state legislatures in the hands of Republicans, green energy mandates are being repealed or scaled back across the country. States like Kansas, West Virginia, Texas, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio and Colorado have already repealed their renewable energy mandates.
The average American’s electric bill has gone up 10 percent since January, 2009, due in part to regulations imposed by President Barack Obama and state governments, even though the price of generating power has declined. The price of generating electricity in the eastern U.S. has fallen by 50 percent since 2009, but utilities raised monthly bills for residential customers, according to government data.
This article originally appeared in The Daily Caller
I love the way you trick the “simple-folk” who aren’t critical thinkers. Now you know why we do your show!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRIbvl5Iewk
vacmancan make an endless series of shallow posts, check them out!
Critical thinking is not logic!
Another renewable kook has joined the show.
LMAO at the clown!
I love the wind and have done a lot of off shore sailing in the Med and English Channel. Wind power/ Speed is on a Log curve and needs to be monitored and checked constantly. Sails on my boat can be changed and down, and when the boat stops perhaps it time to go home with a motor. When wind generators are fed into the grid we see 28% transmission losses, and load balancing is a nightmare over 10% so called renewables.
Wind power is good off grid and for leisure, if it can be used on the grid I wish someone would explain how it might be achievable without load shedding?
Brin, this is off topic, where (in general) do you live? I’m in Florida, south of Tampa near the gulf.
No I don’t think I did!
I had asked where you lived and told you where I did but didn’t want the trolls to learn that. This too will disappear after a while.
Sicily, was UK
I am in Florida near Tampa (40 miles south). I will delete this when you acknowledge you’ve seen it. Other post is being deleted now. Delete yours for security
Brin, delete your post, please
Dems should be required to be 100% green and pay the cost
Fair enough. Then Reps should be required to breathe 100% the air from car exhaust. Enjoy your “cheap” rates.
I’m happy to hear that you don’t drive. An EV isn’t good enough by the way. The power comes from somewhere. Save the world on your own dime.
“The average American’s electric bill has gone up 10 percent since January, 2009,
due in part to regulations imposed by President Barack Obama and state
governments, even though the price of generating power has declined.”
Why do we neglect the part that is not caused by regulations? Why no mention of record-breaking energy industry profits? Surely this price-gouging by energy companies has SOMETHING to do with increased costs to consumers, but hey, let’s blame Obama and regulations instead.