Comments about ‘Utah wind farm to benefit L.A.’

The benefit of wind, beside environmental, is that it is price stable. Because wind is essentially free, utilities can lock in 20 year power purchace agreements with a fixed price. With Questar asking for yet another natural gas price hike, I hope Rocky Mountain will look to more wind and less gas for producing electricity. If all our development of Utah wind goes to California, will Utahns still be sandbagged with volatile power costs because our domestic utilities opt for price volatile fossil fuels for sale at home (coal, gas) while our price-stable wind is exported? Who is looking out for Utah's interests in all this? For far too long, we've allowed the utilities to set energy policy for citizens, and it has led to Utah being 95% coal-fired for its electricity, and within a few years, that coal is going to face steep carbon taxes and restrictions -- and all the utilities will do is simply pass that cost onto rate payers. Why can't rate payers have a say in what types of fuel they want from their utilities?

I noticed the 2nd phase will add 100 kilowatts to the 185 megawatts of the 1st phase. They may have a difficult time finding such a small windmill for that 2nd phase.