Posted on 09/18/2011 9:56:26 AM PDT by dila813
The seemingly endless expansion of wind power production in the United States has pushed large parts of the nation’s electric grid to the limits of its abilities. Now, in the Pacific Northwest, the power grid is pushing back.
Wind power producers in Oregon and Washington State are likely to be the first casualties claimed in the impending morass triggered by calls for reverse rolling power outages at wind farms to keep the regional transmission system operating smoothly. Needless to say, wind investors are pissssssssed.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
In this case, this means shutting down wind farms in their prime power generation season.
Love it, when are we going to stop this foolishness?
About William Pentland: I'm a clean-energy wonk at the Pace Energy and Climate Center, which is a veteran environmental and rate-payer advocate in deregulated power markets and operates the U.S. Department of Energy's Northeast Clean Energy Application Center. As a serial career-changer, I've spilled blood, sweat and tears grappling with the full spectrum of barriers and misconceptions about distributed generation and energy-efficiency technologies. Prior to joining Pace, I practiced law in New York City at Paul Weiss Rifkind Garrison & Wharton, LLP and Jenner & Block, LLP. I also wasted a massive amount of money on journalism school at Columbia University and law school at Stanford University. I've written about energy and environmental issues for Forbes, The Nation, Mother Jones and several other publications. Drop me a line -- or two -- at wpentland@law.pace.edu
These people will eventually convert themselves to green skeptics once all the tax payers money is exhausted.
Can you imagine being the repairman who is called to fix that turbine motor?
Alternate energetic “gang-green” ping!!!
I’m really sorry, but this stuff makes me smile just a little bit...
Ping
However, cheap electricity is exactly what the green movement hates - it means that wind farms operate at a loss, solar farms operate at a loss, and it doesn't do what they ultimately want - which is the cost of electric bills to go up so people turn their cities into third world nations else they bankrupt themselves with the monthly bill.
So while ratepayers should have a time where their bills go down...WAY down.. as the hydropower floods into the system, instead they'll find their bills going up to pay for smart grid technology, and zero benefits from their already paid for powerplants on the Columbia river.
Seems like it'd be an entertaining exercise to detail out exactly who's getting that massive influx of cash off of the sale of the hydropower, and ask some pointed questions as to why exactly this isn't being passed on to the taxpayer/ratepayers who paid for the plant in the first place. I mean, there's no way this becomes an Obama slush fund for next year...
Remember all....in Oregon....they don’t get to count WATER (over dams, etc) as a natural/green environmental contributor...and we have LOTS of water!
Just realize, these guys that financed these wind mills are depending on the cash flow of these things running at full capacity in this season.
Without this, they are all going to go bankrupt unless they get a bail out from Obama.
Another Green industry up in smoke.
They never had these shut downs built into their financial models, the smart grid has killed the green ...... beyond ironic!
Let me see if I can broaden that smile.
Several years ago here in Washington state the pinheads passed legislation that would require energy producers to diversify by requiring a certain percentage of their production capacity be “green”.....and hydro (and nucular) was explicitly excluded.
It isn’t difficult to read between the lines and see that this meant either worthless solar or equally worthless wind. Since then we’ve seen several hydropower facilities decommissioned and an explosion of wind turbines deployed - all at our expense of course.
Now the power producers are going to be told to shut ‘em down because they’re interfering.
This is what you get when you fail to supervise leftists.
They don’t count wood either, but every study has found the wood is the greenest resource on the planet.
Windmill suffers wind damage
Cheers!
I love your tag line!
You’re not the only one. :)
"The federal government has to subsidize windmill production through production tax credits of about 1.8¢ per kilowatt. Wind Farms also receive an accelerated depreciation. Wind farms are also land intensive. They produce a fraction of the energy of a traditional power plant but they require 100 times the acreage.
From the National Center for Policy Analysis: to produce a 1000 megawatt power plant a wind farm would require 192,000 acres or 300 square miles. A nuclear plant would need about 1700 acres (or 2.65 mi2), and about 3 mi2 for a coal fired power plant. The transmission lines for the wind turbines would be massive, 12,000 miles just for the array."
In addition the eco-nazis have forced us to close down our only coal plant 250 miles away from Portland in 2020 even though is is fine to last til 2040. It produces 40% of Portland’s energy. Welcome to the People’s Republic of Oregon.
Pray for America
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