"Hide & Seek: The Staggering Cost of Offshore Wind Power Revealed"

 Source:

https://stopthesethings.com/2021/03/04/hide-seek-the-staggering-cost-of-offshore-wind-power-revealed/

"Renewable energy rent seekers and their propagandists are diligent in their efforts to hide the true costs of wind power from the punters.

Their smoke and mirrors ‘accounting’ religiously ignores the cost of providing power from a meaningful source, whenever calm weather sets in.

And their ‘wind power is cheapest of all’ claims always gloss over the fact that, for every MW of unreliable wind power hooked to the grid, there has to be another MW instantly available from a reliable, dispatchable source somewhere in the system.

Where the true cost of onshore wind power is phenomenal, the cost of the offshore stuff is astronomical.

... A MW of intermittent offshore wind power capacity costs up to 17 times the cost of a thoroughly reliable MW of gas-fired power generation.

And, whereas, the latter is available around-the-clock, the former is available when Mother Nature deems fit. "