<story><title>Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/ps9c2vfu7fcm4t6?ref_=aa_lc_0&amp;pf_rd_r=6F894AHA5W2FQZBQTYZB&amp;pf_rd_p=3fffa90a-17f6-470a-82ad-414308e970a2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnm1019</author><text>Are these wind farms located near data centers and such use the power directly?  Or do they dump into the grid and sell it as power then claim all their power usage is renewable because it is &amp;quot;offset&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>msisk6</author><text>No, this is out in west Texas where wind is plentiful along with cheap land.&lt;p&gt;Nearly all wind and solar farms inject energy into the grid just like any other generator. In an open energy market like ERCOT (where this wind farm is located) there&amp;#x27;s a market where energy is traded.&lt;p&gt;If they inject &amp;quot;X&amp;quot; units of energy into the grid and pull out the same &amp;quot;X&amp;quot; units all is good. If not (the usual case since generation and demand need to equal 100% at all times) there are rules to govern the buying and selling of energy all generators  (&amp;quot;market participants&amp;quot;) follow.&lt;p&gt;Suffice it to say, grid management in an open energy market is complicated. If you really want to know more about the rules you can read more here: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ercot.com&amp;#x2F;mktrules&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ercot.com&amp;#x2F;mktrules&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas</title><url>https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/ps9c2vfu7fcm4t6?ref_=aa_lc_0&amp;pf_rd_r=6F894AHA5W2FQZBQTYZB&amp;pf_rd_p=3fffa90a-17f6-470a-82ad-414308e970a2</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>johnm1019</author><text>Are these wind farms located near data centers and such use the power directly?  Or do they dump into the grid and sell it as power then claim all their power usage is renewable because it is &amp;quot;offset&amp;quot;?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mtmail</author><text>The press release itself reads &amp;quot;Amazon will purchase about 90% of the power generated by the wind farm.&amp;quot; so I assume the primary purpose is their data centers.</text></comment>