Wind Power Transmission Line Company Wants To Bring 500 Jobs To NW Iowa
Date posted - August 31, 2012
Davenport, Iowa — The company that’s bringing the wind power transmission line to northwest Iowa continues to talk to businesses along their proposed route. Clean Line Energy is seeking to partner with Iowa businesses to help them build their $1.7 billion power line across the state.
They met with companies in the Quad Cities on Thursday, wrapping up a week of similar open house events. The 500-mile transmission project is to deliver wind energy produced in northwest Iowa through a converter station in O’Brien County and across both Iowa and Illinois to near Morris, Illinois. There the lines are to connect with the grid at the Collins Substation.
Officials say the project is expected to create 5,000 construction jobs. Plus 500 about workers are expected to be needed in operations jobs, primarily here in northwest Iowa.
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This is great news for NW Iowa and for our energy production in this nation. The answer to energy independence and reducing our dependence on fossil fuels through stretching out our use of these precious resources means finding workable solutions. Wind is one part of this equation. Currently, tax credits for wind and ethanol sources are under threat, even though similar credits for oil and natural gas are not to be touched. Romney has not supported tax credits for wind and ethanol, industries that are important to Iowa, and to this part of the state. If we are to let the free market work, then why should we choose oil and natural gas over other sources? If we want to cut tax incentives for one sector, than shouldn’t we do it across the board? Renewable energy sources are important to our future, just as the expansion of natural gas reserves and oil drilling in the last few years (yes, expansion- and if you need proof, look at the booming industry in North Dakota), are a net good for this country. Luther College in NE Iowa currently produces nearly 1/3 of its electricity from a single windmill and relies on solar energy to produce energy for two residential facilities. Spirit Lake uses wind generated power for its schools. These are projects that help our economy, our environment, and expands our energy production.
The reason they are cutting wind energy is because it is less than 20% efficient. I know most people assume Iowa is always windy but that is far from the truth. The majority of time in the evening the wind dies down, also at times it is too windy for the companies to even run the wind turbines. So as much as it costs to build a turbine how much energy would it need to produce to end up paying for itself???? With all the continual expenses of troubleshooting and maintenance on a turbine…virtually never. The expenses outway the benefits tenfold. This is why wind energy is another fleecing of American tax dollars and should not be supported.
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