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September 22, 2009

New meters help BPA to manage wind better

By DREW FOSTER
Tri-City Herald

PATERSON, Benton County — Wind energy and hydropower have a see-saw-like relationship: When one goes up the other goes down. But the Bonneville Power Administration is hoping a small device that looks like a model rocket and weighs a few pounds can help ease the tricky synergy.

Last week BPA installed an anemometer to help the power-marketing agency better forecast oncoming wind at the Horse Heaven substation just west of Paterson. The white device with a black propeller on its nose was attached to a bar extended outward about 6 feet off the top of the substation's 70-foot communications tower.


 
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