With Joe Biden and the Squad in the White House, American power consumers should strap themselves in for a very wild ride. Under his plans to spear or anchor 10,000 or more giant industrial wind turbines into the seafloor off America’s Atlantic coast, it’s not just the marine environment and fishermen who will suffer the phenomenal cost of Biden’s trillion dollar boondoggle. Power consumers in the States are about to be treated to the kind of punitive power prices suffered by wind and solar powered Germans, Danes and South Australians.
Where the true and hidden costs of onshore wind power is staggering enough, the cost of generating electricity with wind turbines offshore is out of this world.
And, as is the case always and everywhere, it’s the power consumer the cops it in the neck.
Robert Bryce reports.
Lower- and middle-class Americans will pay a fortune for Biden’s wind-power plan
New York Post
Robert Bryce
9 April 2021
Last week, the Biden administration announced “a bold set of actions” that it said will “catalyze” the installation of 30,000 megawatts of new offshore wind capacity by 2030. A White House fact sheet claimed the offshore push will create “good-paying union jobs” and “strengthen the domestic supply chain.” One problem: It didn’t contain a single mention of electricity prices or ratepayers.
The reason for the omission is obvious: President Biden’s offshore-wind scheme will be terrible for consumers. If those 30,000 megawatts of capacity get built — which, given the history of scuttled projects like Cape Wind, is far from a sure thing — that offshore juice will cost ratepayers billions of dollars more per year than if that same power were produced from onshore natural-gas plants or advanced nuclear reactors.
Of course, offshore wind will create an armada of problems that go well beyond the price of power. As Rockefeller University environmental expert Jesse Ausubel told me recently, it will require “massive industrialization” of the oceans. Indeed, building 30,000 megawatts of capacity will require anchoring thousands of offshore platforms along our coasts that could pose significant threats to navigation, marine mammals and fisheries.
But the cost issue is the one that deserves immediate attention because any spike in electricity prices will have an outsized impact on low- and middle-income consumers. Those price hikes will be particularly painful in New York and New England, where consumers already pay some of America’s highest electricity prices.
In February, the US Energy Information Administration reported that offshore wind continues to be one of the most expensive forms of electricity generation. The agency estimated that in 2026, producing one megawatt-hour of electricity from offshore wind projects will likely cost about $121. That’s nearly double the cost of generating that same amount of energy with an advanced nuclear reactor ($63) and more than three times the projected cost of producing it with natural gas ($37).
Take away the lucrative federal tax credits, and the EIA projects offshore wind could cost as much as $150 per megawatt-hour in 2026.
The EIA projections enable us to estimate how much Biden’s wind flotilla will cost consumers. If all 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind are built and the turbines operate at a 50 percent capacity factor (meaning they produce at full output half of the time), they will generate about 131.4 million megawatt-hours per year. At $121 per megawatt-hour, that energy will cost about $15.9 billion per year.
Let’s compare that sum with the EIA’s projections for advanced nuclear and natural gas: At $63 per megawatt-hour, generating 131.4 million megawatt-hours with advanced nuclear would cost about $8.3 billion. At $37 per megawatt-hour for natural gas, producing that much energy would cost about $4.8 billion.
Thus, the electricity from 30,000 megawatts of offshore wind could cost consumers roughly $7.6 billion more per year than if it came from advanced nuclear reactors and about $11.1 billion more than if it were produced from gas-fired generators.
And remember, those many billions don’t include the lavish subsidies that the offshore sector will be collecting from the federal government in the form of tax credits or from states like New York, which has pledged $200 million in port infrastructure improvements to support the development of offshore wind projects.
A final point: Foreign corporations will be among the biggest beneficiaries of those subsidies. Britain’s BP, Norway’s Equinor and Denmark’s Ørsted are developing a total of some 6.2 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity in US waters.
Offshore wind is a bad deal for the marine environment, ratepayers and taxpayers. Biden’s plan should be torpedoed before it leaves the harbor.
New York Post
STOP THESE THINGS 
America pursues expensive electricity while much of the world lives in energy poverty. Energy poverty is among the most crippling but least talked-about crises of the 21st century. We should not take energy for granted…
Summary: The wealthier countries like America, Germany, and Australia, with some of the highest costs for electricity and fuels in the world, continue with increasing regressive expenses that takes up a lot bigger chunk of the budget of a lower middle-class family than it does an upper middle-class one.
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/america-pursues-expensive-electricity-while-much-of-the-world-lives-in-energy-poverty
With unbelievable stupidity, the UK not even afforded a referendum on the subject and without the freedom to even debate the lie, is embracing a ‘Climate Change’ tyranny which only helps China to reach its Global Domination agenda.
The West is outnumbered many times over by the populations in possession of ‘Common Sense’ of China, India and many other countries which don’t even believe in any of this childish AGW hypothesis.