Denial comes in many forms, and most recently from academics from TU Berlin. A certain Prof. Erdmann claims to have discovered, that using wind energy would increase the costs of electricity in Germany by more than 0,7 Cent per kWh. Obviously it’s all to do with how you define your system boundaries; and Erdmann does that in favour of the big energy consumers and the highly centralized electricity production industry. He (or the TU Berlin press department) are so busy denying the benefits of wind energy that, in their press release, they fail to spell the weblink to the study properly (http://www.ensys.tu-erlin.de/menue/research/publications/), which I’m happy to correct here: http://www.ensys.tu-berlin.de/menue/research/publications/.
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Published by Peter Troxler October 13th, 2008