Those places have been put off limits.

I can understand your unhappiness having been there several times before, but you are only one person. There are 6+ billion of us who are going to get our butts kicked by climate change.

You are upset about something happening on land you don’t own. It didn’t have to be a wind turbine. It could have been a shopping mall, an airport, any change that you didn’t find pleasing to your eye.

Unless you own your view you have no control over it. Unless you own all the land around you then you have no control over it. You can move to your little piece of paradise but if your kingdom is not vast enough people around you can make changes to their land that you may be able to see, hear and smell.

I’ve experienced that personally three times. I’ve moved into beautiful spots my lot, acre or few acres surrounded by beauty and peacefulness. Then, each time, someone who owned land next to mine did things that changed my little world. I went from bucolic to impacted. I had been enjoying the quite and beauty of land that I didn’t own.

Stuff happens.

My parents had a very nice home in a rural area. Then the farm directly across the street from them which had been cows grazing on rolling hill turned into a massive Walmart. The farm behind them became a housing development. As did the farms on each side of them.

They went from living in a beautiful, quite environment to living in a noisy, traffic choked suburb in a five year span.

Since you don’t own your view or enough land to buffer yourself from your neighbors you’ve got two choices. Suck it up or move.

The first two times my paradise was ruined I had to deal with it. Moving was not an option at the time. The last time my paradise was ruined, I moved.

You could go to the 2012 NREL “The Past and Future Cost of Wind Energy ” and check their reporting of the LCOE for wind. (Figure 3. Page 3.)

http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy12osti/54526.pdf

There you will see that they report $50/MWh (5c/kWh) for 2009 with prices rising a bit going into 2010. The NREL seems to not have published anything on wind prices more recently.

The price rise in 2010 was due to demand for turbines exceeding supply which allowed manufacturers to increase the price which, in turn, caused LCOEs to rise for a while.

Following that more manufacturing capacity came on line and the price of turbine and the electricity generated dropped back down to the 5 cent level.
You can see the same information extended out for a couple more years in the EIA 2012 Wind Technologies Wind Resources report.

Five cents is roughly what it costs to generate electricity with wind. That price will continue to fall as technology improves. GE announced new software that will increase the output of most turbines up to 5% recently. New turbine and blade design is pulling more energy out of slower wind sites.

Both the NREL and EIA are telling us that it costs about 5 cents to generate a kWh of electricity with wind. Not the 15+ cents you claimed.
Subsidies take the selling price of wind down to about four cents.

Accelerated depreciation simply lowers the taxable base, it does not lower the tax directly.

$100 in accelerated depreciation does not mean one pays $100 less in taxes. With a corporate tax rate of 35% it would mean that the company would get a savings of $35.

And since it is accelerated depreciation that means that they are getting some tax savings early in their operation rather than later. That time value stuff that you’ve heard about but can’t calculate.

The price is lowered by subsidies. No one has argued that point. All energy is subsidized.

All capex is depreciated for all businesses. Accelerating the rate at which capital can be depreciated has value. It does not have value equal to 30% of the investment. Making that claim shows that you don’t understand the math.

It doesn’t take a model. It’s just math.

You’re spouting off about stuff you don’t understand. But hang in there, we’ll educate you.

We don’t include the cost of spinning reserve when we cost out any other generation. That’s a grid operation cost.