BIG WIND

For BP Alternative Energy, there's always the other side of the coin: While it expands the "Beyond Petroleum" campaign, the petroleum branch of the company is often making headlines like those today about the Texas City disaster. The backstory here.

BP Division Set to Begin Wind Projects; Sails Unfurled, BP Alternative Energy Launches 5 Wind Power Projects
January 12, 2007 (AP via Yahoo News)

- BP Alternative Energy North America Inc., a subsidiary of BP PLC that combines the company's oil and gas interests in low and zero-carbon power generation, on Friday said it plans to begin construction this year on five wind power generation projects…it will put wind turbines at sites in California, Colorado, North Dakota and Texas. Collectively the projects will generate about 550 megawatts of electricity. When complete, the projects will exceed the company's previously announced target to build 450 megawatts by the end of 2008…
- BP Alternative Energy has already started construction in Weld County, Colo…The 300-megawatt wind power generation project will have 274 wind turbines…expects it to start operating in the second half of 2007…should generate enough carbon-free electricity to power 120,000 homes.
- BP says its US wind portfolio has the potential to develop almost 100 projects with a total generating capacity around 15,000 MW…