Report Touts Wind, Biomass Energy Sources The development of
wind-generated electricity has a lot of potential in Oklahoma
and the cost to produce it is less than the cost of power made
with natural gas, according to an interim report released
Tuesday by the Oklahoma Wind Power Assessment Committee. The
committee, formed last year, recommended the state develop a
plan for renewable power generation and create a multi-agency
strategy for the development of renewable energy. Improvements
in technology over the last decade have led to a dramatic
decline in wind power costs, making wind power the fastest-
growing renewable energy technology, the committee said in its
report. So far, the state has generated 500,000 megawatt hours
of wind power at a cost of $12.5 million, or about $25 per
megawatt hour. That's more than the cost of coal-fired power
($11 per megawatt hour) but less than gas-fired power ($42 per
megawatt hour), the committee wrote. Oklahoma now has 176
megawatts of wind power capacity. An additional 2