For according to a recent report from the government of Denmark, new wind power coming online in 2016 will cost half that of energy now provided from current coal and natural gas based power plants. The net price would be equal to 5.4 cents (US) per kilowatt hour.
Half! Wow. For your info, in Victoria, retail electricity costs 29 c per kWh, and the feed-in tariff for surplus solar (or wind) is just 8 cents per kWh. In the US (Texas, for example) electricity costs around 11 c per kWh.
Note that this ignores the cost of carbon pollution and also excludes subsidies to wind.
The image below is fascinating chiefly because of the scale. Note the workman inside the turbine.
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| A GE wind turbine with built in battery storage. Source SmartPlanet |
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