Do you think wind energy is viable if the government decides to stop extending subsidies?
Do you think wind energy is viable if the government decides to stop extending subsidies?
Do you think wind energy is viable if the government decides to stop extending subsidies?
Depends on how you define viable. Wind is an uneven and uncontrolable source. So you need a storage system to store the xs when available. Storage currently is expensive and very inefficient. O and M on a wind farm is also high but the emergy is “free.”. So you do get out more than you put in. Thus you can make a profit. Problem is other sources are more profitable. In general money goes to the project that gives the highest return. What the subsities do is make wind profitable enough to be attractive to investors.