The National Renewable Energy Laboratory released information on Wednesday and reported by Tom Doggett of Reuters on Thursday.
"Wind energy could generate 20 percent of the electricity needed by households and businesses in the eastern half of the United States by 2024, but it would require up to $90 billion in investment, according to a government report released on Wednesday.... Reaching the 20 percent threshold for wind by 2024 in the eastern electric grid would require 225,000 megawatts of wind generation capacity in the region."
They are going to build 225,000 MW of wind for $90B? Including transmission??? I cannot believe that anyone vetted this at all. On what planet does wind generation cost $400/KW? Certainly not Earth. More likely, NREL meant $90B PER YEAR for the fourteen years. That would be about right.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60J37V20100121?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&rpc=22&sp=true
