Georgia Power to Buy Wind-Generated Electricity
Wind Turbines — Image by © Royalty-Free/Corbis
For the first time, the Georgia Power Company is going to buy wind-generated electricity.
The utility has just entered into a 20-year contract to buy enough wind-generated power to serve 50,000 homes a year.
According to spokesman Brian Green, Georgia Power decided to enter the wind market because the price was finally right. “Due to technology and transmission costs being lower, we are able to generate the wind in Oklahoma, and have the power from the wind transmitted below what it would cost us to produce power otherwise,” he said.
But the contract doesn’t begin until 2016. Green says that is because of high demand from other customers.
Georgia Power already buys some solar power. But its use of alternative sources is small. Wind and solar will account for less than 3% of the power the utility distributes.An audio version of this story
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