Re: news: U.S. Wind Power Approaches 10-Gigawatt Milestone
- From: Charlie Perrin <nikverse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:30:23 GMT
On 14 Aug 2006 11:11:25 -0700, "lkgeo1" wrote:
U.S. Wind Power Approaches 10-Gigawatt Milestone
As the U.S. wind energy industry stayed on pace for another record
year, Texas for the first time supplanted historic leader California as
the top state in cumulative wind power capacity, according to the
American Wind Energy Association's (AWEA) Second Quarter
Market Report.
Texas may be a state that you wouldn't associate at first blush with
"environmentalism."
But, as part of their electric deregulation, they required a certain
amount of renewable energy on ERCOT (the one-state electric grid run
by the Public Utility Commission of Texas). Since Texas doesn't have
much water to run hydroelectric plants, they do a lot of wind farming.
Texas has a lot of windy, sparsely inhabited territory that's highly
suited to wind farming. They also have three of the ten largest cities
in the USA to use that electricity.
The old Houston Lighting and Power had a relatively tiny service area,
but they were in the top ten in KWH nameplate in the USA.
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