{"id":16847,"date":"2013-10-14T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=16847"},"modified":"2013-10-14T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T20:00:57","slug":"oklahoma-eight-other-states-set-record-for-wind-power-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/10\/14\/oklahoma-eight-other-states-set-record-for-wind-power-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma, Eight Other States Set Record for Wind Power Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"module image alignright mceTemp\" id=\"attachment_16857\" style=\"width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/FlyingPic.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16857\" alt=\"FlyingPic\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/10\/FlyingPic-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">eyesore9 \/ Flickr<\/p>\n<\/div><p>The <a title=\"SPPlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spp.org\" target=\"_blank\">Southwest Power Pool<\/a>, the eight-state regional electricity transmission organization that includes Oklahoma, set a record for wind power generation on Oct. 10, generating about 6,400 megawatts for several hours.<\/p><p>Including coal, natural gas, nuclear and hydropower, about a quarter of the of the region&#8217;s power that afternoon came from wind,\u00a0<em>The Oklahoman&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em><a title=\"NewsOklink\" href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/wind-generation-sets-record-in-southwest-power-pool\/article\/3892543?custom_click=rss\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Monies reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The organization has a total wind generating capacity of more than 7,260 megawatts, so Thursday&#8217;s peak of 6,448 megawatts was about 89 percent of the wind capacity in the region. One megawatt can power about 200 homes during peak demand times.<\/p><\/blockquote><p><!--more-->The amount of megawatts produced is a record, but the SPP actually used a higher percentage of wind power in its mix back on April 6. Monies talked to Michael Goggin with the <a title=\"AWEAlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.awea.org\" target=\"_blank\">American Wind Energy Association<\/a>, who said the spring and fall months provide the best conditions for the generation of wind power.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The winds have been pretty high in the last few days with the weather systems over much of the Midwest,&#8221; Goggin said. &#8220;The SPP has great wind in Oklahoma and Kansas that can provide high amounts of power. We&#8217;ve got a stable, high-quality resource there.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The amount of megawatts produced is a record, but the SPP actually used a higher percentage of wind power in its mix back on April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":16857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[545,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16847"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16865,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16847\/revisions\/16865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}