Anyone live near a windfarm?

[MossRoad]

 

[jyoutz]

The thing I would add is we are seeing a ton of solar farms added in upstate NY.
My electric bill has doubled in the last 5 years and I am not using more.
The green new deal may make money for some but it is in someways just another redistribution of wealth.
So I feel like I am buying life insurance from Jonathon @ Colonial Penn.
It only costs $9.95 but it is a policy for $1,000 more or less based on your age.
That ain't going to bury you, it's a scam taking advantage of old people using fear p*rn. And like that fear p*rn is used about pollution.
I'm 72, I remember the cars from the 60's and all that has been done to clean it up and what smog in big cities looked like.
They keep moving the goal posts and now my gas stove and car are the latest thing they want to take from me in NY.

Interesting. My state produces over 35% of total power from solar and wind, and is adding more at a rapid clip. My electric bill has been stable for the past 5+ years. IDK where this idea that renewables cost more than fossil fuels is coming from?

 

[Eagle1]

Interesting. My state produces over 35% of total power from solar and wind, and is adding more at a rapid clip. My electric bill has been stable for the past 5+ years. IDK where this idea that renewables cost more than fossil fuels is coming from?

Not many states or utilities have been stable the last few years, many place are seeing a rapid increase in electric cost.
Be happy it is not affecting you.

Why utility bills are rapidly rising in some states

 

[ruffdog]

Interesting. My state produces over 35% of total power from solar and wind, and is adding more at a rapid clip. My electric bill has been stable for the past 5+ years. IDK where this idea that renewables cost more than fossil fuels is coming from?

Same here. We are just hearing about plans for giant data centers so I'm sure our "stable" electric bills will be gone soon.

 

[Jstpssng]

Interesting. My state produces over 35% of total power from solar and wind, and is adding more at a rapid clip. My electric bill has been stable for the past 5+ years. IDK where this idea that renewables cost more than fossil fuels is coming from?

Results will vary. Here, commercial users are getting hit with surcharges of up to thousands of dollars to pay for the solar incentives over the last 8 years. Meanwhile the program far exceeded its goals. Now people (read sales, installers, and others who directly benefited) are upset because the incentives are no longer available.

 

[tradosaurus]

The $50- 200 is just to secure an agreement that the landowner will be agreeable to a windfarm, so the planning can start. Landowners usually get $10K- $13K a year, per windmill.

Ok. that's makes sense. If you had 1000 acres that could be a minimum of 12 wind turbines. So $120K/yr.

One wind turbine can require up to 80 acres of land, and each turbine will generate around 2.5 MW. Because wind turbines are spaced so far apart, surface activities like farming can still occur on much of the land. Depending on the specific lease agreement, you can still use much of your land during a wind lease.

 

[jyoutz]

Results will vary. Here, commercial users are getting hit with surcharges of up to thousands of dollars to pay for the solar incentives over the last 8 years. Meanwhile the program far exceeded its goals. Now people (read sales, installers, and others who directly benefited) are upset because the incentives are no longer available.

Definitely the incentives are gone, which changes the economics particularly for residential installations. But we haven’t seen price increases due to large commercial utilities. They are currently constructing the 2nd largest wind farm installation about 50 miles SE of my location. And there are solar/wind large installations throughout the state, yet my power bill has remained about the same cost for 5+ years, varying plus or minus $20/month, which is mostly seasonal fluctuations.

 

[jyoutz]

Same here. We are just hearing about plans for giant data centers so I'm sure our "stable" electric bills will be gone soon.

We have seen multiple giant data centers constructed during the past 5 years with little impact on residential rates. IDK about commercial rates.

 

[Sprinkler Fitter]

Today's price of corn is $4.27 per acre.

Per acre or per bushel?

 

[MossRoad]

Per acre or per bushel?

Ha! per bushel, thanks.