Drivers of Wind Power
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Environmental Benefits
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Why Wind Power?
When the wind blows, the grid-tie wind electric system will save you money by reducing your monthly electric bill, provide power to your home during blackouts, and help the environment.
Electricity is generated when the wind blows. The power then goes through a small battery bank into an inverter, and then into the house.
The house will use the electricity from the system first, and if needed from the utility. Depending on how the system is constructed, it can even keep a portion of the house operating if the electricity from the power company goes down.
Key Issues of Wind Power
- Policy Uncertainty
- Sighting and Permitting: avian, noise, visual
- Operational impacts: intermittency, ancillary services, allocation of costs
- Accounting for non-monetary value: green power, no fuel price risk, reduced emissions
Wind Energy Economic Security Benefits
- Wind energy is an indigenous, homegrown, energy resource that contributes to national security.
- Wind energy is inexhaustible and infinitely renewable.
- Wind displaces electricity that would otherwise be produced by burning natural gas, thus helping to reduce gas demand and limit gas price hikes.
- Wind energy is the least cost new energy source.
- Unlike most other electricity generation sources, wind turbines don't consume water.
- Wind energy has many environmental benefits.
- Wind energy can be used in a variety of applications.
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