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Are wind subsidies a price worth paying?

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Subsidies are necessary to allow a technology or market to develop to a point where subsidies are no longer necessary. Those who say offshore wind cannot be economical ignore the lessons of history; onshore wind was claimed to be too expensive, now it is on a par with traditional carbon-based power generation. I’m old enough to remember the same being said about offshore oil and gas, now it is the cornerstone of our production.

Posted date

2 May 2012

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12:54 pm

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