Also, since the necessarily erratic nature of wind power necessitates the development of energy-storage technologies to guarantee continuous supply, wind power can also act as a spur to the development of a hydrogen economy in which cars no longer require petroleum fuel.

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Despite all the talk of grid-based energy storage, the least expensive solution to the variability of wind and solar power is geographic dispersion, according to Leo Casey, Chief Technology Officer of Boston-based inverter company Satcon Technology, (NASD:SATC) speaking at the Building Energy 11 conference in Boston on March 9th.

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The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), a quango with the ability to force through important national projects over the objections of locals, is supposed to make it easier to build power lines, storage plants, wind farms and the like.

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