Problems To Solve With Windpower
The NY Times has an article up about one of the problems that plagues windpower throughout the country. It seems that wind farms are being built away from population areas and getting that power to the energy users is difficult and sometimes results in the turbines being shut down during peak periods.
It isn’t clear to me whether this will affect our installation since they will be relatively close to population centers and with the Mid-Atlantic Power Pathway being built across the Chesapeake soon.
No doubt Harris McDowell is quietly getting himself appointed to head the Coastal Power Lines Commission.
Refer all questions to Carney….he has all the answers on windpower.
#1 Ditto.
Actually that point was used quite effectively in the argument to bring offshore wind to the East Coast.
The transmission costs from North Dakota, where it is extremely cheap to make power with onshore wind, to the Atlantic Seaboard where most of America’s power is consumed…. (the PJM iw the world’s largest electrical grid) ….compensates for the increased investment expense of building offshore wind farms….
The best option for America today is to build wind-farms up and down the entire Seaboard. That is where the power will be used.
Hopefully Delaware will be in position to become the Hub of all that activity.
The MAPP line is vitally necessary to carry excess power from what will eventually become a 600MW wind farm to the center of Washington DC. The lines are needed to move the electricity fast and efficiently to urban centers whenever wind spikes occur.
Tommy and I were covering this point a year ago. It is nice to see the New York Times has finally caught up…..
I haven’t read the NYT article yet. Do they acknowledge that the current wind farms in the US are mostly situated well inland. They are at the mercy of the current weather conditions, that is high and lows to generate winds. We’ve all been in places on days that the winds do not blow. But have you ever been to the beach when there wasn’t a breeze blowing?