"While wind energy is cheaper than other, more ineffective renewables, such as solar, tidal, and ethanol, it is nowhere near competitive. If it were, we wouldn’t have to keep spending significant sums to subsidize it.In the United Kingdom, for example, wind remains significantly more costly than other energy sources.Using the UK Electricity Generation Costs 2010 update ... wind is still 20-200% more expensive than the cheapest fossil-fuel options."(Quoted from article)