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For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region’s Power

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-exactly-peak-time dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind:

Wind turbines across the Great Plains states produced, for the first time, more than half the region's electricity Sunday.

The power grid that supplies a corridor stretching from Montana to the Texas Panhandle was getting 52.1 percent of its power from wind at 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, Little Rock, Arkansas-based Southwest Power Pool Inc. said in a statement Monday.

As more and more turbines are installed across the country, Southwest Power has become the first North American grid operator to get a majority of its supply from wind. That beats the grid's prior record of 49.2 percent and the 48 percent that a Texas grid operator reached in March, Derek Wingfield, a spokesman, said in an e-mail.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:22AM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:22AM (#467186) Journal

    I think I just encountered a Bloomberg terminal link. Let's see what I did.

    Yup, I did the same shit. In the YouTube story.

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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Wednesday February 15 2017, @02:12AM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @02:12AM (#467192) Journal

    I got the link from the RSS feed and it worked for me, though I'm not a Bloomberg subscriber. Sorry for the trouble.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @04:42AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @04:42AM (#467231)

      I remember an incident where, after a certain number of pagehits from an IP address, you'd get cut off.
      That was with U.S. News & World Report. [soylentnews.org]

      Anybody have a list started of the tight-assed sites?
      ...especially the ones that -appear- to be normal--then KABOOM.

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