http://www.practicalenvironmentalist.com/alternative-energy/there-is-a-silver-lining-to-the-bailout-package.htm Useful environmentally friendly news and advice. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.practicalenvironmentalist.com/alternative-energy/there-is-a-silver-lining-to-the-bailout-package.htm/comment-page-1#comment-3764 ecoreason Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:43:29 +0000 http://www.practicalenvironmentalist.com/?p=1938#comment-3764 The credits for small renewable energy systems that could take businesses, households and municipalities progressively off the grid are dwarfed by the credits awarded to industrial scale projects. One of the industrial projects in particular, large scale wind, has never displaced a single conventional power plant and actually increases regional electric costs, despite two generations of experience in Europe with high wind penetration, because it cannot provide dispatchable electricity. Why isn't this a waste of money? The credits for small renewable energy systems that could take businesses, households and municipalities progressively off the grid are dwarfed by the credits awarded to industrial scale projects. One of the industrial projects in particular, large scale wind, has never displaced a single conventional power plant and actually increases regional electric costs, despite two generations of experience in Europe with high wind penetration, because it cannot provide dispatchable electricity. Why isn’t this a waste of money?

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