Wind Power Gets a $5 Billion Boost in Texas
July 21, 2008 | Posted by Sheryl Canter in Energy Technologies
This post is by Sheryl Canter, an online writer and editorial manager at Environmental Defense Fund.
Billionaire Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens is pushing hard for the development of wind power. He says that we can get 20 percent of our electricity from wind within 10 years if we put our minds to it, and is planning a large wind farm in Pampa TX.
And that's not the only Texas wind project in the works.
On Thursday, Texas regulators approved a $5 billion project to build transmission lines for carrying wind power. The new lines will bring power into urban areas, easing a serious bottleneck. The decision will give Texas more wind capacity than the next 14 states combined.
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