The Carbon Emissions of Wind Power: A Study of Emissions of Windmill in the Panhandle of Texas
Abstract
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in its 2018 Report on “Climate Change: Current and Projected Impacts on the U.S.” called for the need for removal of existing carbon from the atmosphere to prevent the projected climate disasters by 2050 (NOAA, Fahey, SOLAR 2018 Conference). This warning necessitates an examination of the carbon footprint of renewables, especially solar photovoltaic and wind generation. The electricity generation from both wind and solar photovoltaics has been on the rise globally in recent years. In this paper we study the carbon footprint of wind generation from a 1.3 megawatts (MW) located in the wind sweet spot of the U.S., namely, Panhandle of Texas. We are also investigating the carbon footprint of solar photovoltaics and will report the results in the near future.
Keywords
Wind power generation, Carbon footprint of wind, Wind power in panhandle of texas