A new $6.8-billion project is expected to help Texas double it’s
total installed wind power by 2013. The project isn’t a wind
farm, though. It’s a transmission project that would connect
more remote areas (where wind is likely to be generated) to
major cities, like Dallas and San Antonio. Laborers are working
overtime on the project. The Texas Tribune reports: “We’re going
to work 12 hours a day through Thanksgiving,” said Pat Hogan, a
consultant with McCurley Enterprises, a company helping with the
construction. The only real break comes around mid-afternoon on
Sundays when, he said, “you can get your clothes cleaned or go
to the grocery store.” As reported last week, Texas just broke a
wind power output record on October 7 when wind turbines in the
service territory of the Electric Reliability Council of Texas
(ERCOT) produced 15.2% of the region’s electricity (7,400
megawatts). Wind power is cheap as heck and brings the cost of
electricity down (as also reported last week, it brought the
wholesale cost of