Wind energy has potential

PAPUA New Guinea’s natural environment has made abundant wind power energy and coastal or island provinces should invest in clean sustainable energy, by investing in the installation of wind turbines.
If these provinces build wind turbines in every potential location such as high mountain tops, rural people will be able to benefit from large supplies of onshore wind power to satisfy their daily needs.
Researchers at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom and Aarhus University in Denmark have developed techniques to map the total potential of onshore wind energy.
Their experts can be engaged by various governments to calculate the capacity of PNG’s wind energy capacity and its benefits.
Rural people can learn and benefit as users of wind power energy in the US.
Wind power is cost-effective. Land-based utility-scale wind is one of the lowest-priced energy sources available today, costing between two and six cents per kilowatt-hour, depending on the wind resource and the particular project’s financing.
Because the electricity from wind farms is sold at a fixed price over a long period of time (eg. 20+ years) and its fuel is free, wind energy mitigates the price uncertainty that fuel costs add to traditional sources of energy.
Wind creates jobs. The US wind sector employed more than 100,000 workers in 2016, and wind turbine technician is one of the fastest-growing American jobs of the decade.
According to the Wind Vision Report, wind has the potential to support more than 600,000 jobs in manufacturing, installation, maintenance, and supporting services by 2050.
Wind enables US industry growth and competitiveness.
Wind has an annual economic impact of about US$20 billion (K64.18bil) on the US economy. The United States has a vast domestic resources and a highly-skilled workforce, and can compete globally in the clean energy economy.
It’s a clean fuel source. Wind energy doesn’t pollute the air as power plants that rely on combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, which emit particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and sulphur dioxide – causing human health problems and economic damages.
Wind turbines don’t produce atmospheric emissions that cause acid rain, smog, or greenhouse gases.
Wind turbines can be built on existing farms or ranches. This greatly benefits the economy in rural areas, where most of the best wind sites are found. Farmers can continue to work the land because the wind turbines use only a fraction of the land.
Wind power plant owners make rent payments to the farmers for the use of the land, providing landowners with additional income.

John Samar