From Guest Blogger Alia: Wind Power Gaining Acceptance

What was reason behind the recent energy blackout situation that took place in a large part of U.S. cities? Well, a lot of people are of opinion that the recent power-cut hazard faced by American cities was mainly because of fault in wind power.

Although the total dependency on wind power for America’s electricity supply is no more than 1 percent, faults in wind power can cause disastrous outcome. The domestic wind energy parks produce near about 2,400 megawatts of power energy. This power energy is supplied to around 650,000 homes in America for one complete calendar year. The American President hopes that a day will come when more than 20 percent of the country’s electricity will be produced by wind energy. In fact, in European countries like Germany, near about 25 percent of energy is generated by wind.

Those who are against wind power strongly opposes the concept of installing large sized turbines at sea beaches. Most of these wind turbines are nearly 40 meters in length. The opposition party wants to highlight the fact that presence of such long wind turbines can cause a serious distraction to the scenic beauty of beaches. The critics also bring in front matters like bird safety as well difficulty in integrating with the existing utility grids. But, these are all useless points to consider. According to senior research officers of AWEA (American Wind Energy Association), it will never create any problem to integrate the wind power into the grid. There will be no problem at all. Also, there will never be any requirement to modify the utility system or for power backup.

There are several wind power advocates who want to bring forward the fact that centers for wind power can be developed also at remote locations. And this can be done even without the slightest of disruption caused to the skyline. Also, farmers and cattle fields will not be impeded. In fact, cattle can easily graze around those tall and humongous turbine poles quite easily. In fact, it will also be possible to grow corps in the area surrounding the poles. The only problem that will be faced is transportation of the energy to densely populated areas since few people make a living very close to such poles and wind energy plants (speaking about rural remote areas where wind power plants can get organized).

According to the dean of Maryland University, wind power is totally a useless concept that can only fulfill less than 5 percent of the nation’s total power requirement. But, at the same time, heavy capital investment will take place because of installation of wind turbines as well creation of power plants. However, there are also people who opposed strongly to this fact. They said that if the process is given a shape, then USA”s power production will definitely be close to that of Germany’s. USA has the necessary capacity to compete with Germany in terms of Wind Power production. If USA looks into this matter seriously, then the country will benefit immensely from it in the near future. 

About The Author: Alia is a writer/blogger. She loves writing, travelling and blogging. She contributes to Homes By Vanderbuilt.