(03-04-2019, 10:41 PM)NilesMike Wrote: Wind power wanes during both extremes, heatwaves and Polar vortex type conditions.
Wind power doesn't really work at all in some locales. XEL is getting 20% overall which I consider very solid. I don't think anyone is arguing it doesn;t need a backup. No form of energy to include fossil fuels is without some downside. And every utility company can't be mandated to look a like. I'd like to hope that is not the intent of anybody who votes for such things. I'd like to believe they realize Utes aren't powering alike even in the absence of mandates.