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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:34AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:34AM (#467188)

    Imagine if you could suck the energy out of politicians to generate power. You gently urge politicians that do nothing but spew hot air, and you extract electrical power out of it.

    was going to leave kill... but it didn't make much sense in the sentence...

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:55AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:55AM (#467191)

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