But there remain negative perceptions. I think there's always this perception that these things are just somewhere out in the future. There's a lot of baggage for renewables. And people still wonder if the wind farms ever work. They drive the Altamont Pass and see that the turbines aren't working.
Wind is intermittent.
But it tends to generate electricity in the summer, when we need it most, and in the late afternoons when our peaks are. So not only is it cheap, but it gives us energy when we need it most, and that's a value. And the initial cost is important, of course. It's less of an issue with wind power I think. In 1999, about 1000 megawatts of wind power were built in one year and it cost a billion dollars.