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Kansas seeks to rely on both coal and wind to generate electricity
TOPEKA | With a lump of coal in one hand and the prairie wind in the other, Kansas is marching into its energy future.
The state is poised to approve one of the largest coal-fired power plants ever built west of the Mississippi River, even as officials announced plans recently for transmission lines designed to encourage more wind farms.
To utility companies and key officials, this is the right direction. They say that the state must embrace an energy mix of coal and wind and that pitting the two sources against each other is wrongheaded.
"Adding wind generation to the Kansas electrical generation portfolio is part of the solution - but we cannot expect it to be the solution," Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said in a news release.
July 29, 2007
by David Klepper
in Kansas City Star
TOPEKA | With a lump of coal in one hand and the prairie wind in the other, Kansas is marching into its energy future.
The state is poised to approve one of the largest coal-fired power plants ever built west of the Mississippi River, even as officials announced plans recently for transmission lines designed to encourage more wind farms.
To utility companies and key officials, this is the right direction. They say that the state must embrace an energy mix of coal and wind and that pitting the two sources against each other is wrongheaded.
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