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Wind energy's success creates a power grid challenge
October 29, 2009 by Matthew Preusch in The Oregonian
October 29, 2009 by Matthew Preusch in The Oregonian
The rows of white turbines spinning over wheat fields and ridgelines in eastern Oregon are ample evidence that renewable energy from wind is real and growing. ...But wind developers are just getting started. And thousands of miles of new power lines carried by skyscraper-sized steel towers will need to be laid across deserts, farms and forests as more wind farms rise in farther-flung corners of Oregon and the West.
It won't be cheap, or without controversy.
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