TOP WIND GROUP EXPOSES BOGUS ATTACK ON F-I-T

Bogus group strikes again, this time against Germany's wind
Chris Madison, 21 October 2009 ("Into the Wind" via American Wind Energy Association)

[From the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA):] "…[T]he Institute for Energy Research (IER), an anti-clean energy group that produces bogus research aimed at derailing US policy away from clean, renewable sources of energy, struck again. This time the target was Germany, a global leader in wind energy; an earlier IER attack trained its falsehoods and flawed methodology on Denmark." [See WIND FIGHTS BACK WITH TRUTH]

Failed? Hardly. (click to enlarge)

"The latest IER attack is focused on Germany’s “feed-in tariff,” a system used outside the United States to encourage the development of renewable energy...[Economic impacts from the promotion of renewable energies: The German Experience] asserts that the feed-n tariff 'has failed to harness the market incentives needed to ensure a viable and cost-effective introduction of renewable energies into the country’s energy portfolio.'"

"IER’s strategy clearly is to discredit wind energy in other countries at a time when the U.S. industry is growing, and U.S. policies are still being developed. This report goes so far as to include a state-by-state US map showing how much a German-style feed-in tariff would increase electricity costs in each state. The problem is that the United States is not considering a feed in tariff as a means to encourage wind development because it would not work. Instead, the US is considering a free-market based national Renewable Electricity Standard, and numerous studies have shown that an RES would decrease electricity prices."

If this is a failed policy, New Energy needs more failures. (click to enlarge)

"Previous IER reports have been discredited by prominent international organizations and think tanks…But pushing back with facts the facts so far has not deterred IER's disinformation campaign, and we expect them to take on other countries that have successfully integrated wind into their energy mix…"