"one of these wind facilities, the Nobles wind farm, has already been repowered after just 12 years in service. ....at a cost of $240 million?" Hum, falling apart?
Nobles is a 201-megawatt (MW) wind facility consisting of 134 turbines spanning 26,880 acres
The AEP Conesville Station site was ~500 acres, generating 2.2GW across 6 turbines using thermal coal.
All of these actions help increase the productivity of wind turbines, but the biggest reason that companies seek to repower wind turbines has nothing to do with how they perform, and everything to do with money. Repowering wind projects allows them to requalify for the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), a lucrative federal subsidy that expires after the first 10 years of a project’s life.
It should come as no surprise, then, that data from the U.S. Department of Energy shows that the wind facilities repowered in 2021 ranged in age from 9 to 16 years old with the median age being 10 years. In essence, the lucrative federal subsidies paid to wind turbine operators are creating a perverse incentive to prematurely refurbish or replace wind projects long before the end of their useful lifetimes, including the Nobles wind project in Minnesota.
It's all about the grift.
No not falling apart. Op is a faggot. Its a grift by a monopolistic company that likely kicks back profits to the (((commissioners))) to approve the building of new facilities in order to keep stealing taxpayer dollars because thats the only way for them to profit.
I fucking hate it when people don't fully read or comprehend the shit they post.
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