For the past several years we’ve been very happy to get all of our electricity in Brooklyn, NY from wind turbines. We do not have a wind turbine on our home, nor on the property with which we live — we get all of our wind power through our local electricity provider, Con Edison.
Yes, it’s true — wind power is not a thing of a future and is now an easily accessible and established contemporary way of getting your electricity, at least here in New York City.
We don’t wish to go on and on as we have in the past regarding the subject of how great we feel about getting clean wind power over nuclear, coal, natural gas and oil sources of electricity. However, we would like to simply state the fact that wind power has become a much less costly source of electricity over the years — having gone from 20 cents and change, to 18 cents and change, to 14 cents and change to the new low price of 13.1 cent per kWh for the upcoming year’s contract.
We no longer know if we’re paying more for our choice of wind powered electricity, and we don’t care. All we know for certain is that our electric bill has gone down dramatically over what it was back before we ever switched to wind power.
So, should you care to help change the landscape of New York’s sources of electricity, maybe you’d like to join us and living in the era of the Jetsons, finally.
And lastly, in case you were wondering, New York’s electricity is currently sourced by the following: 18% coal, 29% nuclear, 12% oil, 22% natural gas, 17% hydroelectric and 2% other. Yeah, that’s a whole lot of bad things going on so that you can keep that iPhone charged…
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Hmmm, I didn’t know that about Con Ed. Right now my area in Roanoke, VA is being courted with wind power to go up on one of our mountains. The people are heavily divided on whether or not they want this. None of the electricity generated is supposed to stay in this valley. There’s talk of starting with 18 turbines but opponents say they are going to go up to 54. The pilots worry about approaching Rke airport, which is tricky as it is if the turbines are installed since they’re in the flight path. And the neighbors who live on the mountain where the turbines would go have been quoting all sorts of statistics on the problems with them. The other side has been quoting all sorts of statistics on how great it will be.
I’m fairly certain that the opposition can fall into two camps: To paraphrase a Mike Bloomberg from 1997 “I can give everyone in this room $100 bill with no catch and some people will find a fault with it.”
And I would be surprised if the others were backed (knowingly or unknowingly) with this frame of mind: most opposition to wind power reminds me of how the automobile industry bought out the Los Angeles subway system decades ago. Eliminate the better solution…