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BPA to install tools to better track wind
Today the Bonneville Power Administration will install the first of fourteen anemometers to better track where and how hard the wind is blowing.
The BPA, which markets power from the Northwest's network of federal hydroelectric dams, has struggled to incorporate increasing amounts of variable wind energy into the region's electric grid.
August 19, 2009
in The Oregonian
Today the Bonneville Power Administration will install the first of fourteen anemometers to better track where and how hard the wind is blowing.
The BPA, which markets power from the Northwest's network of federal hydroelectric dams, has struggled to incorporate increasing amounts of variable wind energy into the region's electric grid.
The anemometers are designed to forecast specifically for wind turbines, giving power managers a better picture of what wind power production will be in the next hour.The first anemometer will be installed today in Troutdale at 10 a.m.
That information should help BPA decide how much water to hold in reserve... [continue via Web link]
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