At the current natural gas price of around €100 per MWh, a 4.2 MW onshore wind turbine getting 3,500 full-load hours* saves us €2.5 million per year in LNG imported from Trump's US, Putin's Russia (until the end of the year) and other places.
*) like the ones of Betuwewind at Deil in the picture
The investment in the installed turbine is probably around €6 million, for comparison. We need more of those!
And it delivers an emission reduction of 6,000 tonnes of CO2eq per year, when it replaces power generated from LNG.
@Sustainable2050
Alternate energy generation is necessary. Why fund the repressive regimes of the world - and destroy the planet too? Turbines and solar panels, along with other ways of energy generation, are a sign humans can change and triumph.
@Sustainable2050 And the advantage of renewables is that when you install a turbine or a solar panel it will work for years, while a litre of gasoline when burned is gone forever.
@Sustainable2050 let’s make sure to make them more efficient by having battery storage to fill the gaps when there is no sun or wind