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The Northwest is awash in electric power this spring.
Rivers are swollen. Columbia River dams are running full bore. Wind farm blades are spinning.
[...]In some cases, power producers are paying customers to take electricity off their hands.
Time to invent some ways to store electricity instead of paying customers to take it...
June 27, 2008 at 12:05 pm by nk, 219 views, 2 comments
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at 12:59 on June 27th, 2008
Could you please expand on this story? There is only one line of highlighted text here.
at 13:33 on June 27th, 2008
This was teh case in NYC: Con Ed would pay you to put power back into the grid, but the cost of setting up an alt-energy generator far outweighed the incentives offered by the utility company.