It’s funny that you should mention our farming practices
It’s funny that you should mention our farming practices. My grandmother owns a wheat farm out in Moro, OR (Central OR) and is slowly but surely turning it in to a wind farm. PGE is paying her something like $42,000 a year for x number of acres to set up wind turbines. It’s getting more and more difficult for her to survive on wheat and barley alone, and the profit margin is much higher with wind since PGE pays for maintenance and installation.
Unfortunately I don’t know how much energy she harnesses over there or how much it costs, but I do know that the wind mills are being erected all over the area so PGE must see some profit from it, and here in Portland we have an option on our electricity bill to receive a portion of our electricity from solar and wind. For a nominal fee, obviously.