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We’ve got the wind, but not the lines in Montana

Montana has plenty of wind to make energy: It’s everything else that we’re missing.

“It’s one of the areas of huge potential, in this state and the northern Great Plains,” Mike Carlson told a roomful of University of Montana students on Thursday. Carlson has been a wind advocate for years, and started his own private wind consultancy last year after retiring from a career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Mother Nature has done her job, but others have work to do, he said. Landowners need better data on how much wind blows for how long. The region needs more and better power lines to distribute the electricity produced. Power buyers need to be lined up, and the power sellers need to be ready to supply expensive spot-market electricity to their buyers on days the wind doesn’t blow.

By ROB CHANEY of the Missoulian

Full Story: http://missoulian.com/articles/2008/10/17/news/mtregional/news07.txt

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