Electricity bills will NOT decrease.

Wind Developers imply your electricity bill will go down. Your electricity bill will NOT go down.

1) Did you know that 69% of your electrical bill is the cost to get the power from where it’s created to your home? And it does not matter much if that power is generated close by or far away.  This is because these costs include maintaining substations, service centers, poles & wires, meters, personnel, and their vehicles and equipment. https://www.uppco.com/did-you-know/explaining-power-costs/#explaining-power-costs

UPPCO states on the web site that 69% of their cost is for operating and maintaining transmission of energy from the source to your home, not energy production. And this project will add additional transmission lines and other transmission infrastructure to their system that will need to be maintained by rate payers.

2) Circle Power never mentions the reason they can sell power to UPPCO at a low cost is because a larger percentage of the true cost is made up by your tax dollars. These tax dollars go into what is called a production tax credit,  that production tax credit subsidizes Circle Power’s business and makes them and their Wall Street/London investors wealthy at our expense.  Thus the so called low cost is really a function of local tax payers subsidizing what we refer to as the “true cost” of the electricity.  

3) Even as Michigan and the U.S. have added wind power, utility rates have only increased. We confirmed this by performing research over the past ten years on information available on the Michigan Public Utilities Commission website and information provided by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

As one specific example, in Michigan, DTE Energy now gets ≈10% of their energy from wind (including the industrial wind turbine facility in the Garden Peninsula). Their customer rates have not decreased. And to make things worse, in 2019, the Public Service Commission approved DTE rate hikes of ≈9% for residential customers, then DTE turned around in 2 months and requested an even higher rate increase for 2020.

4) UPPCO is not going to retire any existing fuel sources just because of these wind turbines. This is because wind is not reliable (it is not sufficiently windy 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to produce power); therefore, UPPCO may still need to maintain 80-100% of their existing power plants to serve as back up.