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\html\coreront\global\customFieldsDisplay.phtml >\html\coreront\global\customFieldsDisplay.phtml >\htmlorumsront opics\post.phtml >February 16 Professor Gordon Hughes, of the School of Economics, Edinburgh University has written a report on offshore wind entitled Wind Power Economics - Rhetoric and Reality A summary is linked. This has been issued through an organisation called the Renewable Energy Foundation, although the REF is clearly not about lobbying for renewable energy as the name would suggest. It has issued reports correctly predicting major increases in UK power prices, in part due to the increase in the use of renewables. That point aside, Prof Hughes conclusion is that all the wind farms to be built to meet Britain s declare net zero goal are relying on completely unrealistic financial projections. They will run into financial trouble and have to be bailed out by the government which will then want to pass on the costs to the consumers.