Wind power overwhelmingly popular among American public

Wind power strongly supported by Americans across the country July 16, 2016 reveProfessional anti-renewable energy fabricator Robert Bryce is at it again, spreading a laundry list of false, debunked claims about wind power.

American voter-supported wind energy is one of the country’s leading sources of new electricity: more wind came online than any other new electric generating capacity in 2015, including solar and natural gas. That’s partly because wind power has seen such drastic price reductions, with costs that have fallen 66 percent in the last six years. That’s led to wind power becoming the cheapest source of new electricity in some parts of the country and cost-competitive in many.

Naysayers like Bryce are left repeating the same tired inaccuracies.

For example, Bryce’s “analysis” about energy incentives is deeply flawed and misleading. Despite clear line-item labeling that indicates 99.9 percent of the incentives listed in his source dataset have nothing to do with wind energy, Bryce repeatedly lumps all of the incentives received by those companies as being “provided to the wind-energy sector.”….

And here are a few of the other ways he’s off in his latest “reporting:”

Growing wind power is overwhelmingly popular among the general public. A recent Lazard poll found 91% of likely voters support expanding wind power, and this is a bipartisan issue. That same poll found 82% of self-described conservatives support transitioning to a clean energy economy.

While Bryce claims specific projects are unpopular in New York, a poll released just yesterday from the Nature Conservancy found89% of New Yorkers support more wind power, while Gov. Cuomo’s 50% clean energy standard enjoys support from 9 in 10 New Yorkers.

Strong support by Americans for wind power across the country is what’s led to 29 states passing renewable energy targets called “Renewable Portfolio Standards,” or RPSs, requiring states to integrate more cost-effective, reliable renewable energy. These are so successful several states, including Hawaii, Vermont, Oregon, California, and soon possibly New York, are advancing their RPS’s to 50 percent renewable energy.