[rustbucket]

The Austin Energy Climate Protection Plan [my underline] was/is to go from about 15% renewable energy in 2011 to 35% renewable energy by 2020 [Link]. The bulk of that increase in renewable energy is to come from wind power.

Wind power does not function well in very cold or heavy rain conditions [See: Link]. That is a serious problem, IMO, and could lead to occasional blackouts when we need power most. I would much rather have generating capacity we could rely on under extreme weather conditions.

The Climate Protection Plan appears to consider anthropogenic global warming to be a serious problem and that greenhouse gas emissions consequently must be reduced. You would hope the planners and the politicians would be smarter than that.

[af_vet_rr]

The Austin Energy Climate Protection Plan [my underline] was/is to go from about 15% renewable energy in 2011 to 35% renewable energy by 2020 [Link]. The bulk of that increase in renewable energy is to come from wind power.

That's a pipe dream because they still have problems getting a lot of power from West Texas and dealing with off-times.