Comments on: Wind Turbines vs. Suburbia http://homeintelblog.com/2010/01/wind-turbines-vs-suburbia/ Marketing experts share their views on the home industry Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:10:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Knut Wingsch http://homeintelblog.com/2010/01/wind-turbines-vs-suburbia/comment-page-1/#comment-3356 Knut Wingsch Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:27:13 +0000 http://homeintelblog.com/?p=1312#comment-3356 "1. We need a larger power grid." I don't think so. A smart grid would do it much better, but there is another reason why wind power will need it's time. It's about storing energy, like within huge accu’s, to make sure that energy will be available even during times when the turbines don’t produce any energy, because of maintenance reasons or because there are simply times without enough wind. “2. Where to put the wind turbines?” I’m from Germany, the world champignon when it comes to solar and wind power. We have had all of those fights and some are still on the way. The stupid thing during the whole process were the following: 87% of all Germans are totally for clean/green energies, but they don’t want to have the power plants it in their backyards. After the fights Coal/Nuclear vs. Clean/Green Energies ended successfully for clean/green energies (meanwhile we produce 15 to 19% clean/green energy, up to 2025 at least 25%, the new generations of coal power plants are at least 15% more efficient than the ones around the world and nuclear power plants went totally of the grid within the next 20 years) the fights started again, but this time only about locations. That was really sick, because without all of these “hide & seek” games we would have achieved the 2025 goals by now. Because of that my advise is: - Give home owners and commercial real estate investors the possibility to install as much individual clean/green features as she/he like to install. - Grant a fee for green energy which is feed into the grid from individual households and commercial real estate investors. - Give a tax benefit for clean/green features to promote it and bring it faster to main street. - Leave the decision making process for big power plants to the government. They can work on compatibility studies and choose the right place at any state. This process might take 3 to 5 years per location, but at least not 15 or more like at some of our locations. - After all of those location fights a lot of our farmers found out that they can make more money by producing energy than by farming. Offer them good deals and the rest will go into the right direction on its own. “1. We need a larger power grid.”
I don’t think so. A smart grid would do it much better, but there is another reason why wind power will need it’s time. It’s about storing energy, like within huge accu’s, to make sure that energy will be available even during times when the turbines don’t produce any energy, because of maintenance reasons or because there are simply times without enough wind.

“2. Where to put the wind turbines?”
I’m from Germany, the world champignon when it comes to solar and wind power. We have had all of those fights and some are still on the way. The stupid thing during the whole process were the following: 87% of all Germans are totally for clean/green energies, but they don’t want to have the power plants it in their backyards. After the fights Coal/Nuclear vs. Clean/Green Energies ended successfully for clean/green energies (meanwhile we produce 15 to 19% clean/green energy, up to 2025 at least 25%, the new generations of coal power plants are at least 15% more efficient than the ones around the world and nuclear power plants went totally of the grid within the next 20 years) the fights started again, but this time only about locations. That was really sick, because without all of these “hide & seek” games we would have achieved the 2025 goals by now.

Because of that my advise is:
- Give home owners and commercial real estate investors the possibility to install as much individual clean/green features as she/he like to install.
- Grant a fee for green energy which is feed into the grid from individual households and commercial real estate investors.
- Give a tax benefit for clean/green features to promote it and bring it faster to main street.
- Leave the decision making process for big power plants to the government. They can work on compatibility studies and choose the right place at any state. This process might take 3 to 5 years per location, but at least not 15 or more like at some of our locations.
- After all of those location fights a lot of our farmers found out that they can make more money by producing energy than by farming. Offer them good deals and the rest will go into the right direction on its own.

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