True cost of Britain's wind farm industry revealed

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True cost of Britain's wind farm industry revealed

Every job in Britain’s wind farm industry is effectively
subsidised to the extent of £100,000 per year, The
Telegraph can disclose.

Government and industry figures shows that wind turbine
owners received £1.2billion in the form of a consumer
subsidy. Photo: Reuters

By Robert Mendick, and Edward Malnick
The Telegraph
June 15, 2013

A new analysis of government and industry figures shows
that wind turbine owners received £1.2billion in the form
of a consumer subsidy, paid by a supplement on
electricity bills last year. They employed 12,000 people,
to produce an effective £100,000 subsidy on each job.

The disclosure is potentially embarrassing for the wind
industry, which claims it is an economically dynamic
sector that creates jobs. It was described by critics as
proof the sector was not economically viable, with one
calling it evidence of “soft jobs” that depended on the
taxpayer.

The subsidy was disclosed in a new analysis of official
figures, which showed that:

o The level of support from subsidies in some cases is so
high that jobs are effectively supported to the extent of
£1.3million each;

o In Scotland, which has 203 onshore wind farms — more
than anywhere else in the UK — just 2,235 people are
directly employed to work on them despite an annual
subsidy of £344million. That works out at £154,000 per
job;

Continues at:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/windpower/10122850/True-cost-of-Britains-wind-farm-industry-revealed.html

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