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Post by dermot on Apr 7, 2017 12:42:30 GMT
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Post by jackpease on Apr 7, 2017 12:45:06 GMT
I'd be very surprised if these were offshore ones - those projects are billions rather than millions huge? Jack P
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Post by dermot on Apr 7, 2017 13:08:39 GMT
I'm thinking more of the downward pressure on energy prices from the smaller on-shore installations, given that these large scale projects are supposed to be a lot more cost-effective.
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Post by tybalt on Apr 7, 2017 16:28:21 GMT
I believe Feed In Tariffs for existing instalationsare locked at the current figure plus an inflation adjustment BUT the figures for new installations are now subsidy free and unlikely to be viable.
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Post by GSV3MIaC on Apr 7, 2017 20:01:20 GMT
True, but 'locked' in any agreement involving HMG is subject to renegotiation (he says, looking at his Castle Plan / Contribution related pension).
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Post by skippyonspeed on Apr 10, 2017 18:08:16 GMT
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Post by Mick on Apr 11, 2017 7:57:15 GMT
I'm thinking more of the downward pressure on energy prices from the smaller on-shore installations, given that these large scale projects are supposed to be a lot more cost-effective. Have we any information of the failure rate for wind turbines, on a financial basis, with the latest feed in tariff. Are they quite safe with the revenue stream available to them.
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Post by kaya on Apr 11, 2017 9:09:10 GMT
May they all spin their way to hell and remove their blight from the landscape.
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Post by lynnanthony on Apr 11, 2017 11:02:27 GMT
May they all spin their way to hell and remove their blight from the landscape. I wonder, what happens to windfarms (and individual wind turbines) when they are life expired? Who pays for their removal, especially if the owning companies have gone bankrupt? (Not pointing fingers anywhere, this is just a general theoretical question.)
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Post by warn on Apr 11, 2017 13:45:25 GMT
I wonder, what happens to windfarms (and individual wind turbines) when they are life expired? Well, if they're anything like the tawdry little windmill my granddaughters put in their fish tank, they'll slowly get covered in green and black-hair algae, and (for those of you who had a TV back in Coronation year) end up looking like whatever Duncan Lamont turned into in Westminster Abbey.
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Post by kaya on Apr 11, 2017 14:02:35 GMT
They may well get the same treatment as proposed for the Shell oil platforms, and left standing forever. There they will stand, as a monument to greedy short-term gain and the delusion of 'renewable energy' - and perhaps a lot sooner than you might think! They might take the blades off though.
(Needless to say, the GEIA is off-limits for me)
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Post by tybalt on Apr 11, 2017 17:17:35 GMT
I'm thinking more of the downward pressure on energy prices from the smaller on-shore installations, given that these large scale projects are supposed to be a lot more cost-effective. Have we any information of the failure rate for wind turbines, on a financial basis, with the latest feed in tariff. Are they quite safe with the revenue stream available to them. As far as I am aware there has been one failure of a UK land based wind turbine. This occurred because the subcontractor employed to install the anchors in the concrete base failed to employ the correct anchors and the correct cement /glue. However I suggest you do your own due diligence as mine in four years old
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Post by niceguy37 on Apr 12, 2017 9:40:12 GMT
May they all spin their way to hell and remove their blight from the landscape. I wonder, what happens to windfarms (and individual wind turbines) when they are life expired? Who pays for their removal, especially if the owning companies have gone bankrupt? (Not pointing fingers anywhere, this is just a general theoretical question.) I imagine that by the end of the generally 25 years initial service life, the capital outlay should have been recovered and any FIT's expired, it will be a question of whether the value of the electricity generated will pay for the cost of maintenance. plus a profit, in which case they'll be kept running. Otherwise they might be replaced by a larger new more efficient and more easily maintained turbine.
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Post by stuartassetzcapital on Apr 28, 2017 7:24:28 GMT
Hi everyone
We remain very active in the wind turbine industry and have further new construction projects coming that are viable and where the FIT tariffs work. We also have a large number of operational projects in negotiation and overall remain confident we will deliver a lot more green energy loans in the near future.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2017 8:32:45 GMT
I hope so, but they may need to be more off-shore targeted. Perhaps AC could find a way into that market. Certainly the shear beauty of a wind turbine is obvious. But the slowing affects on being on land (see wind shear) based makes them difficult to operate subsidy free (please note that most coal powered power stations operate with massive hidden subsidies), however sea based are making profits subsidy free. You can even buy shares in companies running the things so I'd think AC could tap into that area.
Very proud to see that two days ago the UK operated without coal for the first time in many generations.
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