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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
Texas and New Mexico are still installing tons of wind capacity. Their influence and money appear to be no good around these parts.
I don't think they ever stopped putting up wind turbines in and around Sweetwater, TX.
Another wind farm was built to the south of me, I cant even begin to count all the red flashing lights at night. However many there are, it numbers in the hundreds.
I saw the parts being trucked though town, judging by the blade size they were all at least 1.5MW capacity units.
Whatever the Koch brothers are doing to "wage war on electric vehicles" is nothing compared to what the Saudis are doing, continuing to pump oil even as the price of oil takes a nose dive.
Metering EV uses based on time of use would be good for everyone involved aside for EV owners who work funky long night shifts.
The power company could sell more power at night, less during the day, have more power available during the day to run peoples air conditioners, the EV owners who can charge during the night would save money. Sounds good to me.
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I read a few years ago that T. Boone Pickens(oil magnate) was the source of all those Texas windmills. Although a new check says he stopped in about 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boo...ens#Wind_power
So I don't know who is behind the continuing installations.
JJ