Although the price of power from, say, a wind farm would be higher than what regional utilities were used to paying before California's crash, it could now be well below the latest markets. The so-called wind farm would generate some 300 megawatts of power. It will be the largest such facility in North America. And there are natural gas-fired combustion turbines under construction from Washington to the California border. And utility executives fear political opposition would kill any effort to build any new nuclear plant.
Nobody really knows for sure, but the best guess of the experts is three to five years.
Maybe, Forsythe said. I'm not confident the measures we're looking at go far enough. Not at all.