On Thursday, Hot Air posted an article about the Vineyard Wind farm, off the Nantucket coast.

The article reports:

In the middle of April came word that one of the two partners in the project, GE Renewables, a subsidiary of GE Vernova (which made the infamous blades used in the project), had declared itself no longer a player. It was walking away.

This caused much angst amongst everyone, especially the Vineyard Wind development (with its offshore parents, Iberola and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners), which declared the nearly complete $4.5 billion (with a ‘B’) project could not be finished without GE Renewables full participation. They filed a lawsuit to force GE into honoring the contract.

Within 24 hours, Vineyard Wind had a ruling from a Suffolk Superior court judge telling GE they could not walk away, and to get back to work, calling the GE complaints ‘fanciful,’

…As of yesterday, the Massachusetts judge has agreed to rehear the case because the wind farm is now supposedly ‘operational,’ which completely negates Vineyard Wind’s arguments against GE Renewables’ exit.

…What makes this tit for tat argument interesting are the details. What, exactly, is ‘operational’ in a wind farm?

According to Vineyard Wind, they still need GE around because they’re only partially operational, which sounds kind of like being only ‘mostly dead.’

The article quotes The Citizens’ Task Force on Wind Power:

…When you see the blades spinning, the turbines do not engage the generator to produce power until 6 miles per hour. After 6 mph, they start generating, and they don’t produce full power until around 23 miles per hour. In other words, a 13 megawatt wind at around 12 miles per hour may only produce half its power. Additionally, the turbines are automatically shut down during storms due to high winds or shifting winds. 

The average wind speed off Massachusetts is around 20 miles per hour.

The article at Hot Air notes:

According to the wind farm operator in court in their lawsuit against GE Renewables, it will never pay for itself over the – God willing – 20-year life of the project.

It will never come close.

Nonetheless, there are still silly cultists chanting the mantra, as yet another renewable boondoggle plays out in public.

The article concludes:

…Vineyard Wind’s Final Environmental Impact Statement concludes: “…it is anticipated there will be NO collective impact on global warming as a result of offshore wind projects.”

It’s a shame the same couldn’t be said for consumers’ wallets, the national budget, the ocean, or sea creatures in it.

See also a previous article on the environmental problems caused by the Vineyard Wind project. This project has been a boondoggle from the start.