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Reese Voorhees is this week’s Touchstone Energy Scholar of the Week. Reese is from Onida, SD, located within the Oahe Electric Cooperative, a Touchstone Energy Cooperative. ....
Letter writer remains critical of wind turbines Written By: Gregg Hubner, of Avon | 10:00 am, Feb. 20, 2021 × To the Editor: This week, I woke up to 27-below. I looked outside at the 14 wind turbines I can see from my window; not one was turning. The day before, the Oahe Electric staff was putting out alerts on social media asking people to limit showers, grain drying, drying clothes, baking, etc., because electricity was in dangerously short supply. They said, “There were limited wind resources from North Dakota to Arkansas.” Did you know that wind turbines actually consume electricity (from hydro and fossil fuels) to keep the oil and computers warm? Now that really makes a lot of sense. We are supposed to limit our use of electricity so it can go to a wind turbine to keep it warm but is not turning or producing anything. In Texas, the state with the most wind turbines, reported a similar problem, their natural gas supply is critically ....