Expect it is, wind generation reached grid parity in 2010.
Nothing, it's reached grid parity, over it's lifetime it produces far more power than it makes same with money.
Subsidies are to meet targets by 2020. Otherwise we'll pay billions in fines, better to spend that on our infrastructure than on fines.
I also expect you'll ignore subsidies for hydrocarbon and nuclear plants as well.
Power generation has a large upfront cost.
You are ignoring the cost of keeping power stations running to back up wind turbines when the wind isn't blowing.
They are actually using diesel generators as backup as well.
Short Term Operating Reserve (STOR)
Also you cannot ignore the cost of altering the grid to handle the unstable power they create.
Who will we have to pay billions in fines to?
Tax breaks are not subsidies, you pay tax on profit.
which it wouldn't be if it had got the money that wind has. which still isn't commercially viable either.
Surely we should be investing heavily in wave power were surrounded by coasts. I'd hope we could be self sufficient and not have to rely on importing power during peak times.
It's not like tides have on and off periods.
We are investing a lot in to wave and tidal energy but the technology is far from ready for prime time yet.
And tides do have on and off periods every time they change direction.
Wind and solar PV are just a long way ahead of the other options.
Surely anything that can be tidal powered could be designed to utilise both directions?
They are an eyesore and swans are sometimes killed flying into them as they have poor eyesite. Get rid of them I say.
"I don't like the look of them and they kill swans"