Plugging in the energy from wind farms into the existing power grid has the potential of forcing the BPA to look at curtailing hydroelectric power production which could seriously impact the survival of the salmon...twice now the BPA has had to issue cutback orders to wind farms because of too much power and with the Arlington Wind Farm due to be online next year the problem will get worse. I know it’s kinda trivial info, but, it’s all I had.
The only real “solution” to this problem is constructing batteries to store the extremely expensive, subsidized, unnecessary wind power. However these batteries are even more costly than the windmills that make them necessary. This is just another typical example of the gov’t creating problems that were worse than the original problem they were intended to solve, aka, The Law of Unintended Consequences, at work!