Developing Wind Power on Your Farm
Jim
Nichols, Private Wind Turbine Owner and Former Minnesota Ag Commissioner
The Great
Plains States are in the highest wind power class in the
The TransAmerica Grid An Enhancement
of the
Proposed
System
Approximately
7800 miles
Two
corridors separated by 10 miles
One set of
towers in each corridor
Three
conductor bundles on each tower
9000MW
capacity
500 or 765
KV AC subject to study
HVDC may be
part of the project subject to study
Access to
up to 14,000MW of new coal/lignite generation and 10.000 MW of wind generation
Price Tag
$11 billion AC only or $17 billion with DC converter stations
Wind
turbines harvest energy all year long.