NEWS

Salazar says wind power could replace coal power

04/09/2009

Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, announced a new direction in energy policy this week. Salazar says he accepted his appointment largely due the role he would be able to play in forging a new energy future. This week at a public hearing in Atlantic City, Salazar presented a bold plan to change the direction of energy production in the US. One of the most controversial assertions he made was that offshore wind power could tapped to replace most of the nation’s coal-burning power. "The idea that wind energy has the potential to replace most of our coal-burning power today is a very real possibility," he said. "It is not technology that is pie-in-the sky; it is here and now." Coal industry leaders doubt this claim.