Is wind power the Answer?
Is wind power the Answer?
Texas regulators have approved a $4.93 billion wind-power transmission project, providing a major lift to the development of wind energy in the state. Texas can why don't others? The planned web of transmission lines will carry electricity from remote western parts of the state to major population centers like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. The lines can handle 18,500 megawatts of power, enough for 3.7 million homes on a hot day when air-conditioners are running. The project will ease a bottleneck that has become a major obstacle to development of the wind-rich Texas Panhandle and other areas suitable for wind generation. Texas is already the largest producer of wind power, with 5,300 installed megawatts ??? more than double the installed capacity of California, the next closest state. And Texas is fast expanding its capacity. ???This project will almost put Texas ahead of Germany in installed wind,??? said Greg Wortham, executive director of the West Texas Wind Energy Consortium. Transmission companies will pay the upfront costs of the project. They will recoup the money from power users, at a rate of about $4 a month for residential customers.
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07/31/2008 squidb8
Wind power is an answer.