Tuesday, Sep 28, 2010
Funny how wind farms weren't in the CPI shopping basket
BBC News: UK 'needs domestic wind energy industry'
The price of building offshore wind farms in has doubled in five years.
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This is accounted for by increasing raw material costs, currency movements (particularly the pound's fall against the euro), bottlenecks in the supply chain and construction in progressively more challenging sites.
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At the moment, about 80% of the materials and services involved in constructing an offshore wind farm are imported.
Well done Gordon. You destroyed our enrgy security as well as the economy.
Posted by orcusmaximus @ 01:26 PM (560 views) Add Comment
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1. jack c said...
Lets alter this slightly to UK 'has domestic wind industry' with 647 members in a single village
2. alan_540 said...
Didn't our only company manufacturing wind turbines recently close in the Isle of Wight?
3. Ubear said...
What carp! Wind farms are only economical if you are selling them, they are not economical to build and run without subsidies. The bottom will fall out of the wind farm market when reality hits, and all the funding and subsidies will have been wasted!
4. jack c said...
Ubear - bottom and wind in the same sentence (no pun intended I take it)
5. Crunchy said...
Not another impending tax. 3. Ubear