More wind power coming to San Antonio

[jpak]

http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/stories/MYSA122006.01E.BIZcps.wind.energy.2883859.html

New wind turbines under construction in West Texas could power the homes of up to 70,000 CPS Energy customers, the utility said this week.

The 181 turbines are expected to begin supplying power to CPS Energy by late spring.

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"Wind energy is a source of electricity whose price doesn't change with the price of fuel," said Christine Real de Azua, assistant director of communications for the American Wind Energy Association.

By subscribing to CPS Energy's Windtricity program, customers buy $3 blocks of wind energy, enough to cover 10 percent of the energy used in the average home in a month.

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[jpak]

1. and more TX wind power about to come on-line....

Direct Energy purchases 200 MW of wind power from Lone Star Wind Farm

http://uaelp.pennnet.com/display_article/280355/22/ARTCL/none/none/Direct-Energy-purchases-200-MW-of-wind-power-from-Lone-Star-Wind-Farm/

Houston, TX, Dec. 19, 2006 -- Direct Energy has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement with Horizon Wind Energy's Lone Star Wind Farm. Horizon is a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. Direct Energy will purchase all energy output and renewable energy credits (RECs) from the 200 MW project located 15 miles northeast of Abilene, Texas. The wind farm is scheduled to be complete and operational in the spring of 2007.

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[demigoddess]

2. they should also get going on solar,

i've lived in SA and they would have plenty of power if they could harness solar.

[JohnWxy]

3. as fossil fuel prices keep climbing in the future wind power's cost advantage is going to mean

people will be demanding more wind power. The cost differential is going to become very big in not that many years.