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If we keep subsidizing wind, will the cost of wind energy go down?

  • Written by Eric Williams, Associate Professor of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
imageAs more wind turbines have been put in place, the cost of wind energy has gone down. Dad of T&S, CC BY-NC-SA

There are high hopes for renewable energy to help society by providing a more stable climate, better energy security and less pollution. Government actions reflect these hopes through policies to promote renewable energy. In the U.S....

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