Stephen Dryden, President of Midwest Renewable Energy Corporation, talks about generating wind power in the upper Midwest
Midwest wind power in context
Midwest wind power pioneering entrepreneur is interviewed
You can listen to that conversation with Mr. Dryden, in its entirety, by clicking
here.
an impediment to Midwest wind power
Among the points made during that interview was one about untapped wind resources in South Dakota: with coal-fired electricity plants using most of the transmission capacity, wind farms have no way to send their electricity to market, a situation remarkably similar to how Midwestern farmers in the 19thwere were at the mercy of monopoly railroads for the delivery of their products to market, a relationship that helped create the Populist Movement at that time.
total competitive costs
Mr. Dryden made reference to a lawsuit brought by the attorneys general of New York State, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Vermont, which sought relief from air-borne pollution generated by coal-fired plants in the Midwest, such as those monopolizing the transmission lines in areas where wind power can't find sufficient upstream capacity, through a more rigorous enforcement of the Clean Air Act by the Bush Administration.
This was in the context of the need to evaluate the total cost (including health and environmental effects) of wind power versus coal power.
You can access a press release from
the office of Massachusetts' Attorney General Tom Reilly, describing this lawsuit, by clicking
here.
In that document, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal says:
"The NSR ["New Source Review"] standards are a matter of life and death to countless citizens of the Northeast who receive all of the pollution but none of the power from these contaminating coal burning plants in the Midwest. Our fight in court and elsewhere will be to uphold the letter and spirit of the Clean Air Act, endorsed by the first Bush Administration and now eviscerated by the second."
Midwest wind power investment opportunities
Environmentally-inclined investors interested in learning more about investment opportunities in Midwest wind can call Stephen Dryden, President of MREC, at 641-588-3730, in Juice, Iowa, right in the middle of a wind field. The company's web site can be accessed at:
http://www.midwest-renewable.com.
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