100% Wind- Jackson Hole Turns to the Elements
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- Our rugged landscape was born by the elements and now Jackson Hole is powered by them. The lifts you ride on, the lights in our restaurants, and all of our facilities are now powered by the same wind that hits your face on a storm day. Jackson Hole made the transition to 100% wind power in 2019 and our goal is to continue our commitment to becoming a more sustainable resort.
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So good to see the resorts pushing to be greener 👌🏻
This is absolutely awesome !! Where you are are, what you do, and the way you go about it is Next Level. This just pushes you over the top and into a completely different realm of awesomeness. Can't wait to visit one day ✨🥞🎠🏔🔭❄️🎿💖🤘
The amount of electricity is measured by the theoretical best case scenario of the wind source. Notice that when the wind does not blow the lifts still run. Plus, all wind power needs a gas powered power plant constantly running as a backup.
my life dream is to live in jackson, skiing jhmr, and working with tgr
Does this not just displace other green customers with hydrocarbon sources? Or is this incremental capacity generated that didn't exist prior to the PPA?
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It is truly amazing when ski areas actually care for the environment, as both Jackson Hole & Arapahoe Basin routinely demonstrate. The bigger corporate ski organizations claim to care, but come up shamefully short in delivering on their sustainability programs. The ski industry should be leaders in environmentalism and their potential impact is quite substantial.
awesome
Is it me or does winter seem to be getting here earlier and staying later lately? Just a thought
Deeshunt: Yes, its "global cooling". This is a marketing "puff piece". The power generated by the wind mills is put into the grid at/near the wind farm. it goes wherever the demand is. Those electrons (electricity) never actually makes it to the resort at all. Perhaps my comment is semantics but lets get the facts correct. Only if they had private wind turbines at the resort could this even be plausible.
So are the snow cats electric too or are those still run on diesel...
Diesel of course !!
Yeah....but you're not actually operating on 100% wind power. You're operating on power from the utility grid and you've made a commitment to buy X number of blocks of wind power. It's just a marketing label. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that you make that commitment and that whatever utility company you deal with buys those blocks of wind powered electricity for you, but it's not like you have a direct power line from the wind turbines to the tram. It just goes into the grid and you are paying a premium for a wind powered label to use. That same electricity would just be used by other homeowners and business' if you weren't using it and now they are being powered by who knows what source.
Like I said, wind power is good. We need more of it and your financial contribution to those investments helps add more to the country's energy portfolio. But it's just a label you bought. Unless I'm wrong and you actually do have a direct power line running form the wind turbine to the tram, and if that's the case I hope I'm not on the tram if the wind stops blowing.
I agree. While I appreciate their effort to transition to a renewable energy source, I think it's a little misleading to label the resort as being powered "100% by the wind." Rather, they're offsetting their electricity consumption by investing into wind power. It'd be nice to see them be a little more truthful with how it actually works, but that certainly wouldn't sound as good to the marketing team.
But like you said, I hope the prove me wrong. Maybe they've got an extension cord running to the nearest wind turbine.
y’all have no idea about extreme wind until you ski out east