Missouri City Becomes First with 100% Wind Power

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Rock Port, MO, recently became the first U.S. city to get 100% of its electricity from wind— and it'll sell its excess power to local utilities.

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  • 5/1/2008 4:45 PM Kevin Schrishiphan wrote:
    Going by the article, the math works out to a little more than 69,000 per Rock Port citizen. Or, 34.6k, if you include citizens of a second city. Pretty steep for a system that is only 4.2% efficient.
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    1. 5/2/2008 7:41 AM DJ wrote:
      Kevin, where does the 4.2% figure come from?
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