There’s a new segment from High Plains Public Radio out about Panhandle wind power and ERCOT. Click here to listen.
The segment is part of the Regional News Report by Mark Haslett, who did an interview with AEI’s Ken Starcher earlier this month about how wind power might affect afterlife. Click here to hear that and check out HPPR for more local wind energy news!
There is new Young County 1 data on Windenergy.org! Click here to download it, it’s all free. You can find raw wind data, converted wind data, and our monthly updated excel file
Check out this article from My Way News AP about wind power in Texas.
In what experts say is the biggest investment in the clean and renewable energy in U.S. history, utility officials in the Lone Star State gave preliminary approval Thursday to a $4.9 billion plan to build new transmission lines to carry wind-generated electricity from gusty West Texas to urban areas like Dallas.
“People think about oil wells and football in Texas, but in 10 years they’ll look back and say this was a brilliant thing to do,” said Patrick Woodson, vice president of E.On Climate & Renewables North America, which has about 1,200 megawatts of wind projects already in use or on the drawing board in Texas.
Texas is already the national leader in wind power, generating about 5,000 megawatts. But wind-energy advocates say the lack of transmission lines has kept a lot of that power from being put to use and has hindered the building of more turbines.
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There is tons of new Memphis data on Windenergy.org! Click here to download it, it’s all free. You can find raw wind data, converted wind data, and our monthly updated excel file.
Note: There are a few days of missing data March – June.
David Carr at AWEA with a former staff member and his wife.
The Green Bus filling up outside Country Kitchen.
Two new galleries have been added to Windenergy.org today! The first is a collection of pics from the AWEA 2008 Convention in Houston. The second is a collection of photos featuring “The Green Bus”, a bio-fueled vehicle, as it stopped at the Country Kitchen to fuel up last week.
The Green Bus guys say those two tanks had the best-quality gas they’d gotten yet!
All photos were taken by AEI’s Ken Starcher.
The Young County 2 free wind data site has been updated with a new excel file. The new file details which data is missing.
The error on the Wind Data section of the site has been fixed. We apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused.
