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Originally Posted by membruce
Wend power takes decades to produce a positive ROI and can only be used in limited regions. I would think that the DR would be able to use it but you would have to balance the investment against projects like education. As I said in another post. There is nothing more damaging to the ecology then poverty.
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I don't agree. Wind power's ROI is actually much faster than you think. Roughly 50% of the operational cost of a 1MW fuel powered generator goes up in smoke. With wind power you eliminate half of your operational cost right away(not to mention that there are much less moving parts that need to be changed wvery so often which means less costs of spare parts and less downtime!).
Also take into account that today 1MW of wind power is very close to the cost of 1Mw in heavy fuel oil.
I think that countries like the DR carry with the burden of investing in energy unnecessarily. Governments should leave that to the private sector, all they need to do is provide the legal framework under which they will operate, in this case the renewable energy law.
Can you imagine how much good the $600-700 million dollars being invested in these dirty coal plants by the government would do to the educational system here?