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A comment on Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas.

Re:Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas by mark_l_watson on Sunday September 18, 2016 @09:58AM (#12525317)
It seems to me that the long term value of wind farms is locations with a lot of wind at night, to keep generating electricity when solar systems shuts down for the night. This helps solve the energy storage problem.
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Re:Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas by windchick on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @12:14AM (#12537010)
There will be a few hour lull after Texas solar goes dark and before night wind kicks in. In Texas, all of our wind is night peaking with the Gulf Coast having a significantly better curve for servicing ERCOT day load. So storage will play a very big role in ERCOT as we move more towards renewables.
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