Wind power is not reliable, and thus requires 100% backup at all times. Consumers are paying for two types of electricity instead of just one.
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Indeed, twice the massive initial infrastructure costs that take years to pay off, all built into the rate structure. Plus the full time operating costs of keeping the “backup” thermal turbine system on the boil, while waiting to hit the throttle when the wind dies. Often if not typical, large numbers of wind turbines in a given area stop nearly at once. Operators have about 10 minutes warning to get the steam turbines spinning and online. Altogether it’s not economical at all! We can’t run a robust economy with expensive and non competitive electricity rates. But I suppose that might be the elitists objective too