Wednesday, August 07, 2013

Newly available wind power often has no place to go

Newly available wind power often has no place to go | McClatchy:
“They’ve connected to the system in our region ahead of planned transmission upgrades,” said Southwest Power Pool’s director of system operations, Don Shipley. “Some of the wind farms have seen fairly significant impacts of up to 50 percent of their projected production.”
In other words, a lot of the power those farms were expecting to generate isn’t making it to the market.
Shipley said the electric market and the wind farms were losing money because of the curtailments, as the pool is unable to sell power that the grid is incapable of transmitting."

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