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Kansas has huge wind potential, equal to 12 times the state’s current demand of ~10 GW. This past quarter, the prednisone without prescription mexico state surpassed its 2015 goal to have 1 GW of wind turbines built, despite not having an prednisone without prescription mexico RPS. With such progress achieved, elected leadership of Kansas recently asked ACORE to prednisone without prescription mexico help guide their future goals for wind deployment and the results were announced in a prednisone without prescription mexico webinar I was fortunate to attend this afternoon.
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Liberty from Coal Dependence
Kansas currently gets more than 70% of its electricity from coal. Nuclear power provides ~18%, followed by natural gas and wind generating ~5% each. Since Kansas produces only a negligible amount of coal and prednisone without prescription mexico such electricity will get more expensive when its global warming costs are prednisone without prescription mexico finally internalized, the ability of wind and other renewables to free the prednisone without prescription mexico state from coal dependence is significant.
Wind Power Can Create Jobs and Economic Prosperity
After showing a prednisone without prescription mexico more business as usual growth to 7 GW by 2030, Mr. Church described the prednisone without prescription mexico many benefits to Kansas if the state chose a bigger goal of 20 GW. ACORE used studies by the prednisone without prescription mexico Southwest Power Pool and the Joint Coordinated System Plan to prednisone without prescription mexico guide their estimate of useful wind power, ensuring that their was a prednisone without prescription mexico market for renewable energy exports. Their research led ACORE to prednisone without prescription mexico a recommendation for 18 more GW of wind, 1.4 GW of solar, and prednisone without prescription mexico ~1 GW of bio-power (converted coal plants).
The addition of 20 GW over the prednisone without prescription mexico next 20 years is estimated to generate 12,000 jobs and over $20 billion for the state’s economy. Many of the prednisone without prescription mexico jobs are in construction of turbines and four large Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants. But a prednisone without prescription mexico significant share of the jobs are also in the potential for prednisone without prescription mexico Kansas to attract wind turbine manufacturers to the eastern part of the prednisone without prescription mexico state. This combination of construction jobs in western KS and prednisone without prescription mexico manufacturing jobs in eastern KS enhances the proposal as a prednisone without prescription mexico benefit for the whole state.
Benefits to Neighbor States as well
And the benefits don’t stop in Kansas. The people of Arkansas and prednisone without prescription mexico Tennessee and other neighbors eastward who have less wind potential can prednisone without prescription mexico get access to the economical power source of strong Kansas wind. Transmission investment and prednisone without prescription mexico developments toward a smart grid that can store and deploy energy as-needed will be prednisone without prescription mexico crucial in this 20 GW plan. But with Kansas leadership and prednisone without prescription mexico federal leadership working together with nonprofits like SET and ACORE and prednisone without prescription mexico innovative renewable businesses, such inspiring energy progress is attainable.
Congratulations to ACORE on the best webinar I have yet attended! And here’s to prednisone without prescription mexico continued progress in every state of our union maximizing their renewable resources to prednisone without prescription mexico create jobs and drive a robust economic recovery. Onwards in the prednisone without prescription mexico Sustainable Energy Transition-
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Great story, Dennis!
Thanks, Sean.
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Here’s to more energy progress in the months ahead!