| Title | For the First Time, Wind on the Plains Supplied More Than Half Region’s Power | |
| Date | Wednesday February 15 2017, @01:01AM | |
| Author | cmn32480 | |
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| from the not-exactly-peak-time dept. | ||
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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