Wind power development is funded in many countries regardless of political orientation, such as through tax refunds (PTC in the United States), quota or bidding models (eg in the UK Italy, or through the minimum price system (eg Germany, Spain, Austria, France, Portugal, Greece). The minimum price system is becoming more popular and has reached a lower average electricity price, when the installed capacity of the plant is higher.
In many electricity markets, wind power has to compete with power plants, which have had a significant portion of their total lifetime depreciation, and the technology is relatively new. Thus, in Germany there is a gradual decrease in price compensation from conventional energy providers in the form of renewable energy legislation, which facilitates the development of this young industry. This law provides for the minimum price that grid-run businesses pay for electricity generating plants from renewable energy. The price is set down gradually over time. Contrary to subsidies (for example, for German coal), this incentive does not come from taxes, and grid operators are obliged to buy at a higher price.
In addition to undermining natural landscapes, wind energy responders also offer other reasons such as the lack of capacity to store energy and the higher costs of extending the power grid as well as the energy adjustment. .
