5 Nov
Oregon Prepping One of World’s Largest Wind Farms
Way to go OREGON! I love when Wednesday actually gives us good news! Today’s awesome alternative energy bit of news is that one of our great states in this wonderful nation is prepping, planning and is officially going to build one of the World’s LARGEST Wind Farms by 2012.According to new reports, major utility company Southern California Edison is going ahead with plans to build a 909 MW, yes, 909 MW, wind farm between California and Oregon. 909 MW! Good Lord. The article I read mentioned that “….the new installation will actually be installed outside California in Gilliam and Morrow Counties in North-Central Oregon between 2011 and 2012. The installation will consist of 303 3-MW turbines in a 30 mile radius. Shepherd’s Flat will generate around 2B kWh of wind power for SCE, about 10 percent of its total alternative energy portfolio. The wind-rich region is one of the nation’s “bread baskets” of wind power.”
To me, some of the best news about this new installation is the simple fact that in creating it, no new power transmission lines need to be built. By doing this, the wind farm can come online in much less time than other wind farms, and will allow the alternative energy and even the return on investments to come in much faster. Not only that, wind power, per kWh, is cheaper than solar energy and a great deal of other alternative energy sources to cultivate and harness.
The bottom line, kudos to SCE, kudos to Oregon and California for this new MASSIVE wind farm. For wanting to go green, this is a massive step forward.
Image via Wikipedia
Respond to this post