Re: AWEA estimate of global power needs

2005-04-08 Thread RC Macaulay
In the never ending game of musical chairs the ownership of Texas power plants has an interesting history. Houston Lighting and Power Company ( Old Houston Electric Company owned by Stone and Webster) partnered with City of Austin ( Austin Power) and Central Power and Light (CPL, now AES) to

Re: AWEA estimate of global power needs - 15 years to catch up with nukes

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
I wrote: I presume that means 1.3 million MW nameplate capacity, or 415,000 MW real. That comes to 3,842 NPRE . . . I meant that if you crank these numbers, you get a world total electric power demand equaling ~3,842 NPRE, and they are hoping to have wind supply 12% of this total. Actually, that

AWEA estimate of global power needs

2005-04-08 Thread Jed Rothwell
See the document I cited before: http://www.awea.org/news/03-04-o5-GlobalWindEnergyMarkets.pdf. Quote: "According to the report Wind Force 12 (3), boosting investment in wind energy to a level where it would provide 12% of world electricity generation by 2020 would result in annual reductions o