Property Owners Seek to Block Wind Power Lines
Many Texans like wind power. Few want electric transmission lines running through their ranches.
That's the difficulty facing the state's energy regulators as they set about approving routes for nearly $5 billion worth of new wires across Central and West Texas. The lines are key to the state's aggressive promotion of wind power, because they will allow more clean electricity to travel from breezy western mesas to big cities.
But property-owner frustration was evident earlier this month at a jam-packed meeting of the Public Utility Commission, which convened to authorize routes for Oncor, a Dallas-based company that ...
Comments (3)
catherineturley
aesthetics mean nothing when the alternative is cancer. mining, drilling, and nuclear reactors are killing your children. who the h*ll cares about appearances.
Muk
I don't get it. We have a grid that can enable us to buy or sell electricity between cities in this country. Why can't we utilize or retrofit the grid that's already in place? I guess that may not be an option for some reason, but if the reason is only financial, then maybe that reason isn't good enough. Why is there even a need to build new paths, if all that's really needed is more or better wires in the existing grid or existing structures?
ambroise
What a joke! Mayor Wortham is a wind advocate? Funny how he is chomping at the bit to allow a dirty coal plant named Tenaska into West Texas! Spare me.