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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 bob_super on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:07AM

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:07AM (#467181)

    Sunday morning 4:30AM, lowest demand, gas backup, storage, intermittence ... blah blah blah.

    It's pretty impressive by US renewable standards.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by linkdude64 on Wednesday February 15 2017, @03:51PM

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Wednesday February 15 2017, @03:51PM (#467422)

    I can imagine you with family as a relative's youngling takes their first steps:

    "Well he's walking on low-pill even carpet with socks on and has supporting hands held out, no sharp objects or obstacles near by ... blah blah blah"