The sun and the wind is free, as opposed to fossil fuels that require mining and transport. I don't like bird-killing windmills, nor solar farms on agricultural land, but the amount of 'free' space on all roof-tops around the world, for solar panels, is enormous. And the amount of arid land and deserts available for solar farms is also enormous. Let's exploit that situation for the benefit of us all.
Sun and wind are free but not the infrastructure to create and transport the electricity created. As Germany found out, their rates are 2 1/2 times America's despite a huge portion of their generation is green.
New York Gov Cuomo announce a plan in 2019 for offshore wind electric generation. The initial billions in construction costs will cost each end users thousands of dollars to build it replacing fossil fuel plants that have already been paid for. The final bill will surely be higher as government never meets their original budgets for construction. The windmill cost doesn't include billions more for fossil plants that will be required to supplement when wind isn't available.
In order to fool the public as to the real costs, surcharges will be added to standard electric rates of other subscribers in the state who won't get the benefit of the green electricity. In effect, surcharges for fossil fuel generation will pay for the huge costs of the wind generators. But these won't be shown on subscriber's bills to avoid embarrassing questions from the public. So users won't see that they are paying a lot for "free" wind. They're going to bury the surcharges in the regular KWH charges. So, like Germany, overall rates will go up a lot to pay for all this free energy.
It's a con job. The media is at fault because they refuse to tell the public the truth about the real costs and go along with these inane plans.
