There are those who argue against the validity of the electric vehicle movement, on the basis that, in most cases in the US, putting additional load on the grid means burning more coal. Yet regardless of the extent to which this is true, the position completely evaporates in the face of distributed generation.
I’m going to be helping my friends at Continental Wind Power tell their story of midsized wind (200 – 900 kilowatts) to an audience of managers of factories, farms, schools and universities, municipalities, military bases, etc. It’s easy to see how well this plays into an integration of EVs. For instance, I would tell a farm: If you’re in a decent wind area, install one of our 400 kilowatt turbines and knock out about 2000 kilowatt-hours per day off your electric bill. Or install two, and, on top of that, charge your fleet of electric farm vehicles. Cut out all that diesel from your budget – and all that pollution from our skies.
Sounds pretty compelling to me.