Texas Wind Plans Advance Despite Pickens. Reuters, January 15, 2010. "A move by billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens to cut his order for wind turbines and to postpone construction of a huge wind farm in Texas isn't a sign that the appetite for wind electricity in the state has diminished, a wind advocate said on Friday... Texas, the No. 1 U.S. state in terms of wind, has about 9,000 megawatts of installed capacity, more than twice as much as the next state, according to the American Wind Energy Association. Wind accounted for 6% of the electricity produced last year, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), up from 4.6% in 2008 and well above an estimated 2% nationwide. 'Wind in Texas has a remarkably strong future,' said Paul Sadler, executive director of the Wind Coalition, based in Austin, Texas."
2010-01-20
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