To the editor:

While I don’t doubt that your region produces excellent wind turbines and I can understand Rep. Dan Kelley’s desire to “look forward,” it is also important to consider whether or not President Obama’s drive to replace a significant amount of coal-fired electricity generation with wind power makes any sense on a national level.

Even though wind and solar power have had decades to mature, energy from these sources still costs between three and ten times that from coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear.