{"id":592,"date":"2012-08-07T07:52:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T11:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/57-of-colorado-electricity-from-wind-on-15-april-2012.html"},"modified":"2012-08-07T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T11:52:29","slug":"57-of-colorado-electricity-from-wind-on-15-april-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/57-of-colorado-electricity-from-wind-on-15-april-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"57% of Colorado electricity from wind on 15 April 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Hargreaves wrote for CNN Money 6 August 2012, Wind power hits 57% mark in Colorado<\/a><\/p>\n

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<\/a> During the early morning hours of April 15, with a steady breeze blowing down Colorado's Front Range, the state's biggest utility set a U.S. record \u2014 nearly 57% of the electricity being generated was coming from wind power.<\/p>\n

As dawn came and the 1.4 million customers in Xcel Energy's service district began turning on the lights, toasters and other appliances, the utility's coal and natural gas-fired power plants ramped up production and brought wind's contribution back closer to its 2012 average of 17%.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article also included the usual power company quibble:<\/p>\n

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"A lot of utilities don't want to contract large amounts of wind because it's volatile," said Amy Grace, a wind analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "Anything over 25%, and utilities get nervous."<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

They neglected to mention that the traditional rigid grid connecting big baseload power plants failed for millions of Americans in June<\/a> and failed for 600 million Indians in July.<\/a> More renewable energy distributed through a smart grid would help prevent that.<\/p>\n

In any case, 17% is a significant percentage to start with.<\/p>\n

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