Decommissioning of wind turbines.

[The Horseman]

Thank you.
Firstly the decommissioning cost will be monumental!
Lets hope that this money (if collected’), is held in some kind of trust.
I recently saw a Wind farm in North America where one of the blades broke from a Windmill. The Company after much discussions stated they had No Money to cover replacement. They just went bankrupt.
I think the reasons for this is that Companies build these with much assistance from Local Government, whereby the Company itself does not have the Financial strength to continue on, and just walk away.

And I don’t think that this was properly looked into in any Country……and personally the ‘clean power’ generated does not cover the costs of the materials, transportation and a myriad of things, for many years…If it ever does! ……….To sweeten the Pot the Companies hold out incentives to local groups ‘who are pleased to get something for nothing’ but really it’s all tied upwith the profit.
So…..The Populace is actually paying for the return incentives!

This is my take on it at the present time.