I’ve heard all kinds of remarks since T. Boone (of Pickens Plan fame) (put the brakes on one of the world’s largest planned wind farms recently.
Hardly any of them have been good, most of them are even using this to signal the death of renewables.
The death of renewables? Phooey.
This is the death of T. Boone’s grandiose wind plans. Nothing more.
He’s still in the wind business per his own admission. He’s still going to employ the $2 billion worth of GE wind turbines he’s already purchased. He’s just not using them all at one giant wind farm, mostly due to Texas’ lagging in building out transmission.
Don’t miss my upcoming article about transmission issues and the Smart Grid
Here’s some data the media and the uninformed seem to be forgetting about.