SPP wind fleet to grow to 22.7 GW by end of 2019, but experts not alarmed

摘要

Southwest Power Pool so far in 2019 has had 754 MW of wind capacity enter commercial operation, but no other type, according to a generation interconnection status report generated Monday. Another 1.5 GW, almost all wind, is on schedule to come online in 2019. As of the end of 2018, SPP had about 20.6 GW of wind, in terms of nameplate capacity, which made up almost 23% of the independent system operator’s 89,999 MW of resource capacity, coming in third place behind natural gas with 40.3% and coal with 28.6%.