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Originally Posted by Guinness
It's sustainable and it's free at the point of contact.......just because energy companies continually rip us off doesn't take away from the fact that it is a relatively cheap and clean form of power.
I'd rather see a bank of turbines on a hill than a nuclear power plant any day of the week
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The energy companies get big subsidies to build them, that is not their fault, it is this and previous governments who stitched us up with energy and CO2 reduction policies that forced them to bribe companies to build them quickly.
The reason they often stand still is also not there fault but due to the way gas and coal fired power stations work. You can't just turn off a gas or coal fired (not sure about nuclear without googling). They guess what the power demand will be during the day and ramp up and down the gas/coal power stations as they guessed. If demand is lower than expected they still pay for the wind power as they are contracted to do but they don't actually need it so they stop the turbines. It does sound a little odd but thats the way the power generation works unfortunately.