At the Alternative Energy Store we deal mostly with small wind projects, but in the news last week were two stories that caught my eye- both having to do with large wind projects. The first was this story from the Dallas Morning News about a utility company in TX, Mesa Power and there plans to install 4,000 megawatts of wind turbines by 2014:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/DN-pickenswind_15bus.ART.State.Edition1.4687df7.html
This looks to be the largest wind electricity generation project going on in the US right now.
Also last week the DOE released a prepublication version of a report to ‘increases wind energy’s contribution to the US Electricity Supply’. You can read the report here:
http://www1.eere.energy.gov/windandhydro/pdfs/41869.pdf
Salon.com writes about the report:
“May 17, 2008 | A stunning new report just issued by the Bush administration finds that for under 2 cents a day per household, Americans could get 300 gigawatts of wind by 2030. That would:
• Reduce carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation by 25 percent in 2030.
• Reduce natural gas use by 11 percent.
• Reduce cumulative water consumption associated with electricity generation by 4 trillion gallons by 2030.
• Support roughly 500,000 jobs in the U.S.”
You can read the Salon.com article here:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/05/17/wind_power/index.html
