Uruguay puts a 65 dollar per MW-hour cap for developing wind power projects

Tuesday, November 15th 2011 - 23:09 UTC

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Uruguay won’t accept bids above 65 dollars a megawatt-hour from developers bidding to sell power from wind farms as concerns mount that rates have dropped too low. Read full article

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ChrisR
The first question UTE should ask is why have the prices of turbines fallen? The answer is very simple: these devices do not work efficiently and those countries which have fallen for the climate change lies are now realising this - to their cost and have stopped buying them.

What happens when they stop working, either because there is no wind or the wind is too strong and the machinery cannot cope? Answer, stand-by resources are needed, otherwise you reduce capacity and risk outages.

The whole concept of these things is flawed and I am a little suprised that Uruguay has fallen for them given the mass of evidence available as to their unsuitability. The UK is presently locked in a two pronged financial penalty for the population: the Labour Government subsidies encouraged the growth of these things (paid for out of taxes) and their abysmal performance (less than 7% of power generation) has landed the generators with excess costs - paid for by their customers - who also happen to be tax payers.
This decision is a disaster in the making. It would be better to pay the transmision cost blackmail to Argentina and use hydro power.

I am a professional electrical-mechanical engineer.
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