Northwest Wind Integration Action Plan
Northwest Power and Conservation Council
This study, published in March 2007, warns that plans for installing 6,000 MW of wind energy capacity in the northwest U.S. “increase the need for flexible resources such as hydro, gas-fired power plants, or dispatchable loads to maintain utility system balance and reliability” and substantial new transmission capacity which will be inefficiently utilized.
Download original document: “Northwest Wind Integration Action Plan [1]”
URL to article: https://www.wind-watch.org/documents/northwest-wind-integration-action-plan/
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[1] Northwest Wind Integration Action Plan: https://docs.wind-watch.org/nwwindintegration2007.pdf