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Oregonian: On the afternoon of May 19, in a single chaotic hour, more than a thousand wind turbines in the Columbia River Gorge went from spinning lazily in the breeze to full throttle as a storm rolled east out of Hood River. Suddenly, almost two nuclear plants worth of extra power was sizzling down the lines -- the largest hourly spike in wind power the Northwest has ever experienced. At the Bonneville Power Administration's control room in Vancouver, it was too much of a good thing. ......
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Too much of a good thing: Growth in wind power makes life difficult for grid managers
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 17th, 2010
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