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Vestas Shares Sink with Donald Trump’s Election Win

November 9, 2016 by Paul Crowe

Good news! Donald Trump just won the election yesterday and already today shares in Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, were falling. As we are always saying, “Without government subsidies to the wind industry, there is no wind industry.” Sales of wind turbines depend entirely on taxpayer money to create a demand and keep […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Politics Tagged With: government spending, taxpayers, wind welfare

Omnibus Spending Bill Extends Wind Energy PTC for 5 Years with Phaseout Over Last 3 Years

December 16, 2015 by Paul Crowe

The $1.1 trillion, 2009 page omnibus spending bill was released, and, oh, by the way, buried at the end on page 2002, under Miscellaneous Provisions, was a five year extension of the PTC (Production Tax Credit) phased out with a reduction of 20% each year over the last three years. Congress must be proud of […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Politics Tagged With: government spending, PTC, tax credit, wind welfare

Pioneer Green Energy Quits Wind Project in North East, PA

January 14, 2015 by Paul Crowe

According to reports just received, Pioneer Green Energy sent letters to current lease holders in North East informing them leases allowing wind turbine construction on their property will not be renewed. The reason given is Pioneer’s belief there is not enough support in the current United States Congress for wind energy. Following the recent FAA […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Politics Tagged With: growing resistance, pioneer green energy, wind energy retreat

Pioneer Green Energy Pulls Out of Alabama Projects

August 20, 2014 by Paul Crowe

According to an article on AL.com, a wind project planned for Cherokee and Etowah counties in Alabama will not be built due to Pioneer Green Energy pulling out of the project: According to a document filed July 9 in Cherokee County Probate Court, Pioneer Green Energy President Andrew Bowman signed a memorandum terminating a lease […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Politics Tagged With: wind energy retreat

North East PA Wind Project On Hold Because Taxpayer Funded Handouts Expired

January 23, 2014 by Paul Crowe

Rumors have been circulating for a couple of weeks that the wind project planned for North East, PA and other surrounding areas had been put on hold. An article on GoErie.com confirms this is the case. Federal tax incentives for wind energy development expired Dec. 31, and that’s affected financing for new projects, said Johnny […]

Filed Under: Wind Turbine Politics Tagged With: wind energy retreat

Unfortunately

The less you know about wind energy,
the more you'll like it.

Why wind developers never understand …

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

~ Upton Sinclair

Don’t know – Don’t care

Is willful ignorance necessary
to promote wind energy?

No, but it helps.

Climate Change

Another thing I must point out is that you cannot prove a vague theory wrong. … Also, if the process of computing the consequences is indefinite, then with a little skill any experimental results can be made to look like the expected consequences.

~ Richard Feynman, 1964

It’s not on-demand, it’s no-demand

Wind energy is "no-demand" electricity. If the wind isn't blowing and you demand electricity, the answer is no.

Wind – expensive, inefficient, unreliable



December 1923 Popular Science cover dreaming about generating electricity from windmills, and though the dream never dies, the dream doesn't work, didn't then, doesn't now and without huge government giveaways of your money, no wind farms would get built anywhere. The government forces utilities to buy wind power so payments to landowners are simply wind welfare.


Wind energy runs on tax credits

"I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate, for example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit."
~ Warren Buffett - from interview with Fortune magazine

Wind investments and high cost green energy

“I’m in the wind business … I’ve lost my ass in the business. ... Hey, we can get on everything green. We can get on everything renewable. Then the cost of power will go up ten times."
~ T. Boone Pickens - on Morning Joe on MSNBC

Wind Turbine Map

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The complete map of all of the wind turbines proposed by Pioneer Green Energy in Erie County, PA and filed with the FAA. Plans not yet filed are not shown.

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