Wind turbines are pushing Texas’s power grid to the limit, despite more than $8 billion invested in green infrastructure, according to a report published Friday in the Technology Review, by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“Texas is learning just how costly it is to wrangle the wind,” MIT researchers found.
Texas is already spending $8 billion, but the state’s utilities and transmission companies will have to spend hundreds of millions more to upgrade the system enough to transport electricity from wind-rich West Texas to market in East Texas, the report found. Texas’ new wind turbines also place dangerous stress on the power grid, potentially leading to blackouts.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/08/costly-wind-turbines-are-damaging-texas-power-grid-mit-study-finds/