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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Utility Experience Blows Away Concerns About Wind Power

By Dennis Wamsted, Editor and Author of Wamsted on Energy Blog.  – February 28
The Southwest Power Pool said last week that it met 52.1 percent of the electricity demand in the sprawling transmission organization’s service territory with windpower during a portion of the overnight period on Feb. 13, marking the first time SPP had topped the 50 percent mark. What’s even bigger news is that hardly anyone noticed—these records have been falling consistently for the past several years with the steady increase in wind farm construction across the Midwest; SPP set its prior record of 49.2 percent just last year. The real news, however, wasn’t the percentage itself, but what Bruce Rew, SPP’s vice president of operations, said later in the same press release concerning the changes that have occurred in the past 10 years. Then, the SPP release noted, a goal of 25 percent would have been deemed unrealistic. Clearly, not anymore. Read on...http://www.theenergycollective.com/djwamsted/2399372/utility-experience-blows-away-concerns-wind-power

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