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To: Triffin who wrote (8804)8/12/2010 10:32:32 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Respond to of 16955
 
<24.4 cents per kilowatt hour>

Fortunately, onshore sites in favorable locations make better economics today. Someday, offshore will benefit from bigger and more robust equipment, and economies of scale (80 or 800 turbines, instead of 8). Someday, offshore wind will be competitive with coal. I guess R.I. wants to pay the price and be an Early Adopter.