My guess is the "transmission issues" and grid regulation far outweighed the capital funding. Building the equivalent of over 4 nuclear reactors at a single location whose output variability is intimately linked by geography and weather AND figuring out how to distribute to the loads while regulating the grid using existing generating is an absolute nightmare.
Terry On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:26 AM, OrionWorks<[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/pickens.wind.farm/index.html > > Exerpts: > > -------------------------- > NEW YORK (CNN) -- Billionaire oil man T. Boone Pickens is shelving > plans to build the world's largest wind farm. > > T. Boone Pickens says the capital markets will not support his plans > to build the world's largest wind farm. > > The chairman of BP Capital Management announced Tuesday that his plans > for the Pampa Wind Project, designed to generate 4,000 megawatts of > electricity using thousands of wind turbines, is on hold. > > "I had hoped that Pampa would be the starting point, but transmission > issues and the problem with the capital markets make that unfeasible > at this point," Pickens told CNN's Ali Velshi. "I expect to continue > development of the Pampa project, but not at the pace that I > originally expected." > > -------------------------- > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks > >
