Where’s the Windfrastructure?

Planet Gore on National Review Online

...The lesson is that there are unintended consequences when governments make decisions best left to the markets. Demand for wind energy is being artificially propped up by state renewable portfolio mandates and government incentives. Yet because wind is an intermittent resource and because no commercial-scale electricity storage exists, wind is hard-pressed to meet renewable goals, while electric grids are burdened by the rapid integration of an intermittent resource that the grids were not designed to accommodate.

The growing energy demands of the U.S. call for the use of all the resources we can use. But we should use them when the technology can support their use — when the economics work. If we let the market bring resources to the table when they are market-ready, then we will have much more time to fix transmission limitations and address the other problems that our mad-dash-to-go-green has gotten us into.