Wind power is cheaper than coal, 70pp

to read the October 2014 interim report, click on

http://ec.europa.eu/energy/studies/doc/20141013_subsidies_costs_eu_energy.pdf

The report (PDF) demonstrates that if you were to take into account mining, pollution, and adverse health impacts of coal and gas, wind power would be the cheapest source of energy.
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Summary

Introduction
The way energy markets function and the effect of government interventions in the European Union has been the subject of much debate in recent years. To date however, there has not been a
complete dataset for the EU28 detailing the Government interventions in the energy market

This report presents the results of a study commissioned by DG Energy to quantify the extent of public interventions in energy markets in all 28 Member States for all energy use excluding transport. One of the reasons Governments have to intervene in energy markets is that the market does not adequately price external costs such as environmental damages...