Interesting. I wonder if this is the same wind farm I saw on approach to Schipol Airport. 36 turbines in the North Sea seemed smaller than what I saw (and photographed) and a quick WIkipedia check confirmed it. The one you umentioned is the Windpark Egmond aan Zee and that seems to be the one with the controversy.

I saw the larger Princess Amalia Wind Farm.

The article says the government was subsidising the ENTIRE 18 cents per KwH (implying that's the WHOLE cost of the electricity). That's certainly the first time I've heard of the government *subsidising* an *entire* project for more than just construction (as in the ENTIRE operating cost).

By comparison, my electric bill in NH comes out to $0.166/KwH and we have a nuke plant generating a lot of our electricity.