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Can’t Transmit Wind Power

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Already, more than 70,000 megawatts of wind projects in the Upper Midwest are on hold because there isn’t enough transmission capacity to get the electricity to potential customers, according to the AWEA. The projects could power least 14 million households.

“Transmission is really the glass ceiling for renewable energy development right now,” said Beth Soholt, director of Wind on the Wires, a coalition of wind energy advocates based in St. Paul, Minn.

Mike Hastings, president of Half Moon Power, with offices in Milwaukee and Chicago and wind energy projects in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin, said the existing transmission grid deters wind power and other renewable energy alternatives.

It seems that in the rush to build wind farms, someone forgot to figure out how to get that energy to where it’s needed.  Remember that it’s largely the greenies who fight new transmission lines because you have to slice through the forests to do it.

Posted by Owen at 1707 hrs
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