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Geographers Join Study Of Wind Energy
Two Texas A&M University geography researchers are collaborating with colleagues from Texas Christian University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom in a groundbreaking initiative to study the ecological and socio-economic impacts of wind farms in Texas.
Christian Brannstrom and Wendy Jepson, both faculty members in Texas A&M’s geography department, and researchers from TCU will focus on key questions related to the socio-economic impacts of wind farms and the wind-power economy at local and regional scales. This five-year, $2 million study is privately funded by FPL Energy, LLC, the largest wind and solar energy producer in the U.S. FPL Energy is an energy supplier that utilizes natural gas, wind, solar, hydro and nuclear fuel to generate electricity. It leads the nation in wind energy development, operating 55 wind farms in 16 states, with California and Texas having the most respectively.