EIA: Subsidy Rate For Wind Power Has Dropped 90 Percent

by Brad Johnson Posted on August 1, 2011 at 2:00 pm Updated: August 1, 2011 at 1:36 pm

In 2007, wind power received federal subsidies, as defined in a new Energy Information Agency report requested by pro-fossil Republicans, “of approximately 1.4 cents per kilowatthour,” Lowell Feld reports at Scaling Green. “In 2010, this figure — excluding ARRA money — fell to just 0.14 cents per kilowatthour, a decline of 90 percent. Solar power subsidies per unit of output also fell during that time period, by about 9 percent. Overall, clean power (defined as wind, solar and geothermal) subsidies per unit of output fell by a whopping 66 percent between 2007 and 2010.”