Texas wind energy Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 05:07:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Texas Gets Truly Free Wind Power from 9pm to 6am https://www.greenoptimistic.com/texas-free-wind-power/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/texas-free-wind-power/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2015 19:19:15 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57496 Just like everything else that is big in the Lonestar state, the wind blows big at night in Texas. This extra wind blowing so strong at night has created a great surplus of much needed electricity, so much in fact that Texas power company TXU is able to provide free electricity to thousands of customers […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/texas-free-wind-power/feed/ 3 57496 Texas Introduces World’s Biggest Wind Energy Storage System https://www.greenoptimistic.com/texas-largest-wind-energy-system-20130127/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/texas-largest-wind-energy-system-20130127/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2013 08:25:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32129 North Carolina’s Duke Energy has started operations in what it refers to as the biggest battery power system in the world. The Notrees wind farm facility, which cost $44 million and has a 36 MW capacity, uses some of the most advanced technology to store the energy being produced by the 153 MW renewable energy […]

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