wind power

Articles on Wind Power in Ontario Address Effects on Emissions, Other Issues

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Michael Giberson Tyler Hamilton has a pair of stories in the Toronto Star addressing concerns about wind power developments in Ontario. The first article examines health-related claims and indicates that no scientific evidence yet finds evidence of adverse health affects, but research in the area in increasing. The second article considers a number of other …

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Wind Power and Bird Deaths and Frederic Bastiat

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Michael Giberson Wind power gets a lot of criticism for contributing to bird deaths. Reports of bird-turbine collisions lead some environmentalists to withhold support from wind power. You sometimes see free market advocates, who otherwise seem not to get much concerned over the effects of economic activity on wildlife, suddenly quite concerned about wind power’s …

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Overlapping Transmission Grids in West Texas Will Give Power Plants the Power to Choose

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Michael Giberson At the Gulf Coast Power Association meetings last week in Houston, Jay Caspary of the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) was discussing transmission expansion plans, and at slide 20 offered a map showing the overlapping transmission plans of SPP and ERCOT.  The purple lines are proposed 765 kV lines in SPP, the red lines …

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Is “First in Time, First in Right” the Best Way to Allocate Rights to Wind Energy?

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Michael Giberson At EnergyPulse, Ron Rebenitsch discusses the unsettled foundation of the wind power industry: uncertain rights to use the energy present in the wind. Currently the industry seems to work on a “capture what you can” model, but the approach has its problems and the problems are likely to become more pronounced as the …

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Environmental Benefits and the Production Tax Credit for Wind Power

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Michael Giberson Wind power has been subsidized by state and federal governments in the United States because it is seen as clean and renewable, and perhaps even because wind power is seen as glamorous. Consumers pay higher electric rates and taxpayers pay higher taxes to support these subsidies, and it is a quite reasonable public …

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Frequent Negative Power Prices in the West Region of Ercot Result from Wasteful Renewable Power Subsidies

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Michael Giberson What is with all of the negative power prices in the West region of ERCOT? In the first half of 2008, prices were below zero nearly 20 percent of the time. During March, when negative prices were most frequent, prices were below zero about 33 percent of the time. After mostly taking the …

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