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'Genned' by the wind

11/23/2009
By Sam Fletcher
What fluctuates faster than crude prices in a nervous market? Apparently the RPMs of wind turbines powered by the whims of Mother Nature.For 90 min. on Nov. 8, an unusually strong wind set Spain's wind turbines to spinning like pinwheels, generating 53% of that country's electricity needs. Unfortunately, that power peak occurred on a Sunday between 4:30 a.m. and 6 a.m., when Spain's power demands are minimal. According to a Nov. 10 report in the Wall Street Journal, "Spain had never gotten more than 43% of its juice from wind power before. It suddenly had so much wind power, it had to export some electricity."Spread over the remaining 22½ hr of that blustery day, power fr...
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