Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Austin Discovers the Wind Doesn't Blow All the Time

"Austin Energy customers could see an 8.5% rate hike to a portion of their bills after outages to the utility’s power plants and a lack of production from its wind farms forced officials to buy electricity amid soaring costs during peak energy demand earlier this month."

"As Texans cranked up their air conditioners, statewide electricity production from wind farms nearly disappeared, triggering a decrease in power supply."

http://epaper.statesman.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?pubname=&pubid=0bd3b62f-2574-4676-88da-58d1361460ab

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