SOLAR Energy Cost: 1,000% MORE than Gas

… wind and solar are expensive, financial losers

… A recent study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Energy

… Many entities have assessed what it costs utilities to purchase or produce electricity from existing sources and deliver it to customers

… These cost assessments, however, ignore the intermittency of wind and solar

… how intermittency adds substantial costs to the entire electric grid

… often require new, long, expensive, and inefficient transformation lines

… The peer-reviewed Energy study analyzes these factors and presents an apples-to-apples cost comparison

… In western Texas in particular, the southern latitude, predominant sunshine, and persistent windiness make for extremely favorable conditions for wind and solar power

… study shows solar power produced in Texas is more than triple the cost of nuclear power

… more than quadruple the cost of coal power

… more than 10 times the cost of natural gas power

… solar power in Texas costs $413 per megawatt hour (mwh) of generation

… Wind power costs $291 per mwh

… Nuclear power costs $122

… Coal power costs $90

… Natural gas power costs merely $40

… Utilities often support such wind and solar madness

… Governments typically guarantee monopoly utilities an approximately 10% profit on their expenditures, including the cost of building new wind and solar projects

… A utility pushing for more wind and solar power has nothing to do with saving consumers money

                Energy Journal – Elsevier