Mafia Cash in on Lucrative EU Wind Farm Handouts – Especially in Sicily
September 7th, 2010“In Italy, for example, power from wind farms is sold at a guaranteed rate of €180 per kwh – the highest rate in the world.”
I don’t know what the subsidy is, but it can’t be €180/kwh. (Please tell me it’s not €180/kwh.)
I looked up the retail cost of electricity in Italy and it’s €0.260/kwh for domestic use where the total is under 3500 kWh/year (Source).
Via: Telegraph:
An ill wind is blowing over Italy’s green revolution, as the Mafia seek to capitalise on generous grants for renewable energy.
hey rise up high above the sun-scorched countryside, looking out over hilltop villages, palm trees, neatly-tended vineyards and olive groves.
But for all their promises of a clean, green future, Italy’s windfarms have now acquired a somewhat dirtier whiff – as the latest industry to be infiltrated by the country’s mobsters.
Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
