Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D”. That was 39 years ago. Over that span of time, there has been no lack of assistance in the form of tax credits and federally sponsored R&D, along with a raft of punitive mandates and targets designed to cripple conventional generators and favour chaotically intermittent wind and solar.
Now, as then, bold claims from renewable energy rent seekers about wind and solar being truly competitive with nuclear, coal or gas turn to water as soon as talk turns to cutting subsidies to wind and solar.
With their 40th birthdays approaching, the wind and solar ‘industries’ are a pair of perpetual infants who – like Peter Pan – are determined to…
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