Texas' wind industry has seen huge growth

[Ed Barrow]

"We've used Texas as the poster child for wind energy for the last five to six years," American Wind Energy Association official Kathy Belyeu told a group of wind industry professionals Tuesday.

"If everybody would do like Texas, the wind industry would explode," said Belyeu, the group's manager of industry information.

Texas, the nation's premier energy-producing and energy-consuming state, is no longer just the leader in oil and natural gas production. It also far outpaces the 49 other states in wind power, with 9,506 megawatts of generation capacity in place and thousands more humongous, breeze-capturing turbines expected to be erected in West Texas, the Panhandle, South Texas and perhaps even off the Gulf Coast in the coming decade.

The six largest U.S. wind farms all are in Texas. If it were a nation, it would rank sixth among the world's nearly 200 countries in wind-generation capacity.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/05/21/2208495/texas-wind-industry-has-seen-huge.html

[ClassWarrior]

1. Despite all the freakish things Tejas does, it does plenty of good as well.

Well done, Texas progressives.

NGU.

[ladjf]

2. This indicates that there are some smart people in Texas. nt