The domestic wind-power industry in the United States shattered all previous records by adding nearly 10,000 megawatts of generating capacity last year, according to a recent report by the American Wind Energy Association. Wind power is now competing closely with natural gas as the leading source of new electricity generation for the country. Collectively,...
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Two weeks ago, FirstEnergy Generation purchased rights to develop a Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) plant on a 92-acre site in Ohio. The CAES site, a geologically stable underground cavern, which had previously been used as a limestone mine, will be used to store compressed air for use in generating electricity. At utility scale, it can...
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