Ørsted CEO Mads Nipper stated the other week: “We are still upholding a real option to walk away.” This is because they aren’t receiving enough money from the government. Those wind farms don’t run without subsidies.
Who’s going to pay? All of us ratepayers. Remember, we are to receive only a two-tenths of a cent increase. Watch your future bills.
Still here.
Joe Karpinski
Amagansett
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