Puget Sound Energy's Wind Power

Clean, renewable energy is becoming a core part of Puget Sound Energy's power supply. PSE's goal is to meet up to 10 percent of its customers' total electricity need with cost-effective renewable resources by 2013. A major step in that direction is PSE's ownership and operation of two large wind farms in Washington state. More info located at: http://www.pse.com/aboutpse/EnergySupply/Pages/Wind-Power.aspx

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• sustainability
• global
• warming
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[nerdelicious5]

It's weird some people find the wind turbines ugly. I think they're cool looking.

[artgoat]

You're right. Better to abandon that messy, environmentally unsound wind energy, and keep strip-mining for coal.

[dkooys]

@dggleaner The reason why a lot of turbines are stopped is due to the grid. If the grid is receiving too much electricity, they will call up wind farms and tell them to take some of the turbines offline.

[PoweredBySisu]

If PSE is demanding an unfair deposit to open or change your account, you can File an online Consumer Complaint with the State of Washington Attorney General's Public Counsel Unit.

[windturbinesinc]

It is our right to have a clean and pollution-free environment. We can help save our environment by using only natural resources like wind energy in producing our own electricity. Say No to pollution but Yes to a healthy and clean environment powered by free electricity through wind turbines. A harmless but very beneficial way of living in comfort.

[dggleaner]

Why is Puget sound energy building a turbine farm 200 miles away? Half of them are stopped at any one time, and they are stopped when it is cold or too windy. Why don't they put them over next to the ocean, where the wind is constant, and they won't ice up and stop in the winter? When it nears 100 degrees, the wind in these areas stops because of high pressure. That is when we need the power the most. In the winter, if it is foggy and below 32 degrees, they stop because of ice build up.

[dAlen7]

get me a 55kWh windmill for my property and Ill share the extra power with the neighbors. ;) [Just dump the $330k price tag]