{"id":733040,"date":"2010-05-25T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=10203"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:43:45","slug":"more-wind-farms-mean-cheaper-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/733040","title":{"rendered":"More Wind Farms Mean Cheaper Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/05\/Greenpeace_Gulf_Oil.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10231\" title=\"Greenpeace_Gulf_Oil\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/05\/Greenpeace_Gulf_Oil.jpg?resize=500%2C314\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJust as we Americans are finally really and truly <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/14\/1-in-5-to-take-foot-off-gas-after-gulf-gusher\/\" >internalizing the real cost<\/a> of sticking with fossil fuels, due to the Gulf sea floor gusher, a timely NREL study finds wind power makes electricity that&#8217;s not just cleaner, but it&#8217;s also much cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>If the Western US generated 30% of its electricity with wind  power,<strong> costs would drop 40%,<\/strong> the NREL reveals in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/wind\/systemsintegration\/wwsis.html\" >The Western Wind and Solar Integration Study<\/a>. Under   various integration scenarios  exhaustively considered<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrel.gov\/wind\/systemsintegration\/pdfs\/2010\/wwsis_executive_summary.pdf\"> in great detail<\/a> in a <em>&#8220;what-if&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;how-to&#8221;<\/em> analysis   for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westconnect.com\/\">WestConnect<\/a> group of      utilities, there would also be <strong>a reduction\u00a0 in carbon dioxide emissions   of at least 25% and as much as 45%.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The study comes at a welcome time, because this is the year that  electric cars  are finally poised to appear on the US market,  creating a  real alternative to  the oil-powered commute, since EVs could be  charged with clean energy like solar and wind power, and the gulf  disaster shows us clearly what the alternative is.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/05\/25\/more-wind-farms-mean-cheaper-energy\/#more-10203\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we Americans are finally really and truly internalizing the real cost of sticking with fossil fuels, due to the Gulf sea floor gusher, a timely NREL study finds wind power makes electricity that&#8217;s not just cleaner, but it&#8217;s also much cheaper. If the Western US generated 30% of its electricity with wind power, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4214,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-34He","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834678,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733040\/revisions\/834678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}