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HVDC Can Connect Low-Cost Wind To Demand Centers For 2 Cents Per Kilowatt-Hour

1 September 2015February 14, 2019

Originally published on Greentech Media, August 26 2015 Clean Line Energy believes it can develop long-distance high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission lines that will inexpensively move gigawatts of cheap wind (and solar) power — and still allow competitive pricing at the end of the line. There are wind projects in the Midwest that generate power at

Wind Energy Is Having a Railroad Moment

31 August 2015February 14, 2019

This article was originally published in SLATE and written by Daniel Gross. One of the raps on big renewable energy projects, such as solar plants and wind farms, is that they rely on federal subsidies and tax credits to get off the ground. That’s obvious. Here’s something less obvious: Taxpayers may have subsidized the boom