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G the ASA’s adjudication upheld Your Energy’s challenge of achieving less than a 30% capacity factor being ineffective with a grossly misleading discussion of the meaning of capacity factors. Both the industry and government make great play of capacity factors achieved – though both frequently over-state actual performance;
G almost £600 million annual revenues for wind energy developers is based on official sources, as is up to £90 per household for the Renewable Obligation scheme, and over 60% of wind farm revenues coming from subsidies in 2007. The ASA incorrectly suggested these figures “may have been merely speculative” and not “backed by officially sourced figures and calculations.”
G The ASA adjudication ignored a government-commissioned report on the non-viability, without permanent subsidy, of wind energy developments in areas where the mean wind speed was under 8.5 metres per second at hub height. The report and the government’s wind speed database are in the public domain. [Your Energy’s anemometer readings were internally inconsistent, presumably for technical reasons.]
Readers of the ASA’s adjudication may think BLEW’s claims could not be substantiated, were untruthful, showed lack of environmental concern – and the specialists referenced were incorrect. This is groundless. Instead, the ASA’s adjudication – by going beyond claiming BLEW gave them insufficient substantiation – breached its own Rules on substantiation, truthfulness and environmental concerns. What standards! What an authority!
Michael Jefferson
Michael Jefferson
• ProfessorofInternationalBusinessandSustainability,LondonMetropolitan Business School
• GiventhecertificateoftheIntergovernmentalPanelonClimateChangefor my contributions to their award of the Nobel Peace Prize, in December 2007. [Has been a Lead Author, Contributing Author, Editorial Reviewer, Expert Reviewer.]
• Chairman,PolicyCommittee,WorldRenewableEnergy Network/Congresses for most of the period 1991-2008
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