[Redbob]

"......meeting them would mean saving 1,176 megawatts of electricity — as much power as could be generated from two coal-fired power plants. Actually, that's one coal fired power plant. Or it's one nuclear reactor."

Actually, it's none of the above.

Electric generation "capacity" is defined (logically enough) as the rate power can be delivered at any time it's needed.

Wind power, unfortunately, is delivered whenever it dang well pleases.
Therefore, it does not add capacity at all.
It has to be duplicated with conventional power generation facilities.

[wolfpat]

You’re right. I was just trying to show how uninformed the reporter was in terms of the size of a power plant. Just a few miles from here is the Belews Creek Plant of Duke Energy. It has two coal fired boilers that, IIRC, generate 1200 MW each. One boiler that generates 1200 MW will produce less “greenhouse gases” than two 600 MW boilers.

The GE ABWR is a reactor that can be rated between 1350 and 1460 MW.

The author was trying to make the windmills sound more advantageous than they really are.