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FPL Group Cuts Wind Power Plans: Sign of a Larger Trend?

DFDP Newsletter XXV, No. 5 reports: currently 94 GW of windpower installed operates at 20% capacity and because of unreliability, cannot replace a single watt of permanent generating capacity. Approximately 45 144-ft turbine blades have cracked in the Midwest's violent changes in wind direction (WSJ 4/8/08).