All you May want (or don’t want) to know about EU funding of developments within the Union and beyond:
No the EU don’t “earn” any money, they get their funds from the member states.
The member states get their money from the tax payers.
Isn’t that how ALL government get their money??
Future taxpayers, born and unborn, are not consulted, but present ones are, true European and National elections. All EU spendings has to be agreed on by all 27 member states and the European Parliament.
Does any Government ask future taxpayers anything?
PS> You are lucky, the UK will no longer have to contribute to the EU budget (after they have paid what they owe)
They will also not receive any EU grants for their farmers or businesses.
You don’t save them any money. They still have to pay the cost of their capital investment whether you use the power all day or just at night. According to your economics a power company that never sells any power would save heaps thanks to your help. So they lose by not selling you power at its normal profit and their plant lies underused to the unpredictable extent of the sun, clouds and wind.
I glad we agree. Inserting large proportions of unreliable, so-called renewable energy into existing grids is relentless idiocy. Wherever it has been done the results are the same; rising prices for consumers (including the poorest), unreliable and unstable supply, despoiling the natural land and seascapes, wilful destruction of wildlife most notably birds and bats, and whatever lived before in the vegetation cleared for huge areas of renewable construction.
It would be much more enjoyable for our poorest citizens if they didn’t have to pay through the nose for energy fantasies of rabid envirogoons.
Municipality in China is aiming at developing offshore wind as fast as possible:
As does the Japanese Government:
Because both are lacking the necessary technology and equipment to do the job, this opens opportunities for foreign companies, initially.
Count on both to develop their own resources soon though.
DEME shared one of their favourite action shots taken at the SeaMade offshore wind farm, where DEME’s offshore installation vessel APOLLO installed 58 turbines. In 2020 DEME continued to further strengthen our turbine installation track record with the successful completion of projects at East Anglia One in the UK, Borssele 1&2 in the Netherlands and then SeaMade in Belgium. These three projects represent a combined total of 254 turbines!
The 12th of January, the first 9 monopiles of the total 33 for Akita Noshiro have arrived in Akita from Sif’s terminal in Rotterdam. This event further contributes to the kick-start of offshore wind in Japan. Sif’s client, Kajima Corporation is one of the biggest general contractors in Japan, and mentioned the following: ‘Kajima has been looking forward to seeing the first shipment arrive in Akita.’ Fred van Beers, CEO of Sif Holding commented: “Sif is evaluating the development of the Japanese offshore wind market for some years now. Sif recognises the ongoing development of offshore wind in Japan and therefore has decided to open a sales office in Tokyo in 2019 to study further expansion of Sif’s business activities in Japan. This first delivery of Sif monopiles to Japan is an important milestone for us.”
As the graphs show the vast majority of the jobs are during the construction phase, a much smaller but still significant number of jobs during the operations and maintenance phase.
