GRP: Enough electricity on tap at one time to power 680,000 homes? Has to be curtailed to keep some kinda balance? But, what about all this Natural Gas some speculators say we need? Damn those wind generators!
Ebb and flow of wind power stress NW power grid
By DAVID LESTERYAKIMA HERALD-REPUBLIC
YAKIMA, Wash. -- In the space of one hour last month, electricity generated at wind farms in the eastern end of the Columbia River Gorge shot up by 1,000 megawatts - enough to power some 680,000 homes.
Less than an hour later, it plummeted almost as much.
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