In order to carry wind power from wind farms in the boonies to populated cities, new grid power lines are being built in Texas and Oklahoma. I am hoping Barack Obama’s first legistlative order is getting money approved to build power lines from South Dakota and Wyoming and Montana to the populated cities in surrounding states with large populations. More wind farms mean less polluting coal plants plain and simple green economics while creating green jobs in America.
Les Dillahunty, regulatory vice president for the Southwest Power Pool, said the organization is working with its member utilities and state and federal regulators to come up with ways to pay for grid improvements.
Those upgrades would enhance reliability, are built for economic reasons and are designed to export wind-generated power to other parts of the country.

Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co., which is building extra-high-voltage lines in a partnership with Electric Transmission America from Woodward north to Kansas and northwest to Guymon, received approval on Wednesday from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to recover costs for their $500 million project.

Kansas project approved
Another company received approval for a $600 million project in Kansas. Both propose building 765-kilovolt lines.
“With the way our transmission is interconnected, when you build new lines, its benefits extend past the boundaries of your retail service area,” said Mel Perkins, vice president for power delivery at OG&E.

“So, in order to balance, or associate the costs with the benefits, then you need to allocate your costs. These large, high-voltage transmission lines benefit the entire region. Everyone in the region should help pay for it, because everyone benefits

needless to say, wind stocks got clobberred along with everything else in energy and oil. Sadly, what wind power needs is a spike in oil petroleum prices to encourage building wind power turbines. Coal prices also tumbled today so the polluting twins of oil and coal all lost their shareholders money. Solar got cremated today .