Comments on: Electric Vehicles Enable More Local Clean Energy http://cleantechnica.com/2011/11/10/electric-vehicles-enable-more-local-clean-energy/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 15:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 By: Anonymous http://cleantechnica.com/2011/11/10/electric-vehicles-enable-more-local-clean-energy/#comment-107196 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 23:59:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=32063#comment-107196 Previous calculations (IIRC) were that the Western grid could utilize 30% wind and 5% solar without the addition of storage. This extra 12% should make it more than possible to shut down all coal generation west of the Rockies.

And there are no US states which could not get 100% of their electricity from wind. There’s no rule that says wind-produced electricity cannot move across state lines.

Of course it doesn’t make sense to get 100% of our electricity from wind, that would require building large amounts of storage. A wiser grid will spread its supply across wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biomass and maybe even wave if that technology can be developed.

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