Thursday, November 20, 2014

Greenfield, California and Wind Power

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And speaking of Greenfield, California, Susan Stanton is in the news about renewable energy. This is a state that is conducive to and produces wind energy. The levelized cost of energy from wind turbines in 1993 was about 7.5 cents per kilowatt/hour. With current wind research and development efforts, the Energy Commission estimates that newer technologies can reduce the cost of wind energy to 3.5 cents per kilowatt-hour.

GREENFIELD — The City Council is considering the financial viability of a Greenfield Wine Turbine Facility and have decided to have the city manager analyze the matter further.

“We have a really good wind corridor and it would be financially advantageous to build and sell this energy back to an investor, in this case PG&E,” said City Manager Susan Stanton. Read about it...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

will the two of you give it a rest with susan stanton?? she is long gone, literally nobody wants to read about her. lets move forward

Lynn Anderson said...

This is a positive, unlike the bully bloggers posts, and some people actually have an interest in what Susan Stanton is doing. She was hired under unusual circumstances and because of transgender prejudice, was eventually fired.

Anonymous said...

FYI-She will bankrupt her city if she goes out for a very large bond and then is unable to sell power back to the utility. We are talking about 10's of millions here. And, the Pacific Gas & Electric may refuse to purchase any power at all if the harmonics issues cannot be resolved. This is way, way over Susan's head.