{"id":4488,"date":"2009-07-10T04:25:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2009-07-10T04:25:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T08:25:05","slug":"slim-pickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/10\/slim-pickens\/","title":{"rendered":"slim pickens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewableenergyworld.com\/rea\/news\/article\/2009\/07\/transmission-holding-back-pickens-plan-us-wind-industry?cmpid=rss\">Transmission Holding Back Not Only Pickens&#8217; Plans But All US Wind &#8211; Renewable Energy World<\/a><br \/>\nThis week, T. Boone Pickens announced that his plans to build the US $10 billion, 4,000-megawatt, Pampa Wind project are on hold. He cited lack of available transmission and funding concerns as the reason for the scale back.<\/p>\n<p>Wait, hang on here &#8230; I thought that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickensplan.com\/\">Pickens Plan<\/a> was all about the having the guts and the go (and the $$) to build transmission to make it work. Guess it was just a gas play after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transmission Holding Back Not Only Pickens&#8217; Plans But All US Wind &#8211; Renewable Energy World This week, T. Boone Pickens announced that his plans to build the US $10 billion, 4,000-megawatt, Pampa Wind project are on hold. He cited lack of available transmission and funding concerns as the reason for the scale back. Wait, hang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1ao","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4489,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions\/4489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}