No utility buying reflects reality

Carbon Capture and Sequestration is a Waste - Mark Byron Wooldridge

Posted At : December 16, 2011 9:21 AM | Posted By : Mark Byron Wooldridge
Related Categories: Clean Power Investing, Industry Structure, Wind

Buyers of wind power lacking - The developer of the largest wind farm ever proposed in North Carolina says the project has stalled because no utility wants to buy the power the project would produce.

Why would a utility buy non-dispatchable, pre-dawn power that might cause them to have to back down generation from a baseload plant compromising its heat rate and emissions?

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