Then there's the well-chewed chestnut about wind power being cheaper than coal or gas fired power along with claims that wind power is actually 'competing' with conventional generation sources.
The International Energy Agency released data that revealed the percentage of total global primary energy demand provided by wind and solar is 1.1 percent. 1 Hardly the kind of number derived from wind and solar lobbies.
Another report confirms what should have been obvious from the start: the more 'variable' wind and solar are introduced into any electricity system, the more they make it both more expensive and less reliable.