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You're wrong (4.00 / 2)
  1. the German State did not put a single cent. The feed-in tariff is borne by rate payers, not by taxpayers.
  2. as I've written in various other places, the merit order effect of the wind injected in the system was sufficiently large to ensure that the net effect on rate payers is actually to bring prices down

oh, and beyond that:

  1. can we agree that €3bn/EPR is not a realistic figure today? Can we also agree that no nukes can be built under today's market based system? And that if you start changing rules for nukes, then you can't criticize wind using these rules?
  2. the 25GW of installed wind now provide 50TWh of essentially free electricity every year - counting solar, we're getting close to 10% of yearly needs of Germany.
  3. did you count how many billion euros of solid wind and solar technology exports are not made possible by these early subsidies?


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by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 28th, 2010 at 02:33:41 AM EST
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