What is the wind energy economy?
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wind energy economy differs slightly from markets, such as Versus USA, but there are common trends around the world to indicate that it is one of the best investments in the energy arena. Regarding comparison with other traditional energy sources, such as natural gas power plants, wind energy is the most recurrent alternative energy sources. The wind energy economy has also been constantly improving over the last few decades because the technology itself has improved and the cost of financing has decreased. Sustainable winds from wind energy become so important, especially in the US sector that it is estimated that since 2002 wind energy has been predetermined to become the least expensive form of energy production in America.
Since 2009, the wind energy economy has reduced an average of 11 to 13 cents in the US dollar (USD) per kilowatt -hour for energy production. OneIt is a reduced cost of 80% for the cost of wind energy over the last 20 years, and has been competitive since 2009 with the cost of natural gas for power plants. Natural gas also fluctuates significantly in the price due to economic conditions, with a cost level of 90. Years three times until 2009 and seven times higher than in the 90s of the 20th century in 2003. In the production of a scale production of scale production in the extent of scale production to the extent in the scale production in the extent of the production of the necessary equipment. This has led to the wind as an energy supply since 2010, which costs only 12% of what he did at the age of 80.
Although the energy economy of wind energy continues to improve, it is still supposed to overcome the milestones. Since 2009, coal power plants have been produced on average electricity for the price6 cents per kilowatt -hour in US dollars (USD). This is less than half of the cost of wind energy, and at the same time coal coal is 51% of all energy production in the US, while wind energy is only close to the level of the ability to supply 2% of US energy demand. However, wind energy growth is so dramatic that the US Department of Energy (DOE) estimates that by 2030 it will supply 20% of US energy needs by 2030. In 2010, the US overcame Germany as a leading nation in the world for the amount of energy generated from wind sources.
In the European sector, the wind energy economy is equally favorable. Since 1992, the annual growth rate of energy production has continued to reduce the cost of equipment. The UK estimate found that the largest costs for the establishment of a wind power plant are from turbines to 64% of total costs and building engineering and electrical infrastructure to 21% of the total cost of their connection to the power network. That's how to getSignificant because as soon as most of the cost of stabling wind energy is paid, which is primarily in advance, the cost of maintenance for the system is very small. By comparison, fossil fuel power plant, such as natural gas, has 40% to 70% of the annual eternal cost to be built only for fuel supply.
The biggest disadvantages of wind energy are those that are common to any new source of energy: determination of demand and reducing costs by increasing the extent of production. European estimates of the cost of one turbine since 2007 were £ 1,230,000 pounds. Most of these are only technology and setting costs, with 76% for the turbine itself, 9% to connect to the power network and 7% for the foundations on which the turbine is built.
Investment costs affect wind energy economy directly and differ from the nation to the nation in Europe. The setting costs were the lowest in Denmark, slightly higher in Greece and the Netherlands and the UK almost a third of the more expensive, Germany and Spain. Most of theThis variation is caused by fees selected against wind service providers in creating the foundations of the turbine and the connection of the technology to the electric network. These fees have been rising since 1998, while the cost of wind turbine technology will drop themselves. Such institutional costs are a direct consequence of energy policy, where 16% of the total, 24% in Portugal, Germany and Italy in Portugal, and in other European countries up to 32% of the total costs of establishing systems since 2011.