Electric Power Distribution - A National Strategy

The following is a letter I sent to President Obama, T. Boone Pickens, and My Congressman Chet Edwards.

As a land planner I can report to you that we are doing the wrong thing..., As a national strategy we should rethink how we are executing the new renewable wind energy effort.

Currently I see windmills and power generation being placed in rural remote areas. With that strategy the problem becomes creating a new and expensive distribution system to handle the new capacity and incorporate that capacity into the existing power grid. This strategy benefits a limited number of taxpayers.

What we should be doing is placing the power generation {windmills} along all the existing transportation corridors [Railroad, Interstate, and Electric Distribution ROW’s]. The property owners along the ROW’s would benefit and the electric distribution system could be increased as required, [and where it is needed]. The existing electric distribution intersects the transportation systems at numerous intervals and the interconnection opportunities become obvious. The obvious secondary opportunity is place power generation [windmills] along the existing electric distribution system and increase the existing distribution capacity. Again, the electric power is where it is needed and the numerous adjacent landowners benefit directly through [land] leasing of the windmill locations..

Deregulation has divided our electric energy into 3 categories: power creation, power distribution, and energy billing. Obviously, we might need to nationalize the existing power distribution grid and provide the ”best practice” guidelines for public use.

If we incorporate these ideas we can have commercial and residential power stability, and have electric vehicles [of all types] in place and operational much sooner than is planned.

I can provide many details if you see value in these ideas.

Regards,
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Dennis Fehler
118-B South Main Street
McGregor, TX 76657
dennis@dennisfehler.com
254.723.8318

Cc:
President Obama
The Whitehouse
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

T. Boone Pickens
The Pickens Plan
PO Box 12123
Dallas, TX 75225

Congressman Chet Edwards
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
17th District, Texas
600 Austin Avenue, Suite 29
Waco, TX 76701
254.752.7760