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Wind energy loads Western power grid
Future wind projects mean the region's electrical grid must be expanded, which won't be without controversy, said Brent Fenty, who heads the Oregon Natural Desert Association, which is tracking transmission proposals.
"There's no question that we are changing the face of the state right now. And the important part is that we do that in a way that is responsible and reflects our values," Fenty told The (Portland) Oregonian.
Hundreds more wind turbine projects are planned for Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, most of them on private land. New power lines to carry that energy, however, must be built on public lands and carry a long-term impact, said Erik Fernandez, spokesman for the group Oregon Wild.
"If we do this the wrong way, there's going to be a large price tag environmentally," Fernandez said.
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This news arrived on: 10/30/2009
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11-04-2009 12:34
Betty Montgomery wrote:
Wind power
Why, oh why this insistance on obtaining large amounts of energy at a great distance from where it is going to be used?! Why in the world not make smaller amounts clouser to where it will be used? That is the promise I see in Wind and Solar power. Okay. So the wind is less in some places than in others. Some places the sun doesn't shine as often. Fine. But maybe it does shine or blow enough for a small wind turbine or a roof top solar aray to power ONE house. One house that could pass any of it's excess energy into the grid along with, out of the box thought, several other houses. Houses that would also be equiped with battery back up of course. Imagen a grid powered by a lot of little, single home, power plants instead of one big and easily sabotoged power plant with the long easily sabotoged power lines needed to deliver the power.
That's what I think when I hear 'power to the people!'
That's what I think when I hear 'power to the people!'
11-04-2009 09:42
John Davis wrote:
Upgrading the Grid
Everyone wants more electricity and more all forms of enegery
But nobody wants high tension towers in their back yard... The only way to upgrade the grid without a lot of public screaming is to put in larger wires on the existing towers I fear.
And this too has serious problems.
But nobody wants high tension towers in their back yard... The only way to upgrade the grid without a lot of public screaming is to put in larger wires on the existing towers I fear.
And this too has serious problems.
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