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Linde to Present LNG Solutions at Pennsylvania Conference

Linde North America will present ?Creating an LNG Infrastructure? at the Natural Gas Utilization Conference, Sept 6-7, 2012 on the Penn State campus, State College, Pennsylvania.

The conference addresses critical efforts underway to increase the use of natural gas and natural gas liquids being generated from shale plays. From Linde?s presentation, industries including transportation, oil and gas and marine will learn about the economic and environmental benefits of using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel.

?Linde is one of the few companies in the world that can deliver a complete solution for LNG,? said Rick Victor, LNG business development manager, energy solutions, Linde North America, who will deliver the presentation. ?From liquefaction and the safe and reliable delivery, handling and storage of cryogenic liquids to vaporizing and dispensing, Linde provides an end-to-end solution for customers looking to reduce fuel costs and environmental impacts. The Natural Gas Utilization Conference is an ideal venue to demonstrate Linde?s capabilities in important markets.?

Victor will discuss Linde?s capabilities to fuel trucks; the company?s success in helping oil and gas companies convert to a combination of LNG and diesel to fuel power drilling equipment; and Linde?s plans to bring its leading LNG technologies for marine applications, developed in Europe, to North America. He will also focus specifically on LNG applications in the Marcellus and Utica shale areas.


LNG World News Staff, September 3, 2012

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September 2012: Moving with your Special Needs Child: 15 ways to ...

By Krystymoving van child girl wavingann Krywko, Ed.D.

It is estimated that one out of five families move every year. While transitioning to a new neighborhood or town can bring an assortment of stresses, this stress can be amplified when a family moves with a special needs child. Routines, therapies and support networks can be disrupted, and the entire family can feel on edge. Whether this is your first move or you are a seasoned veteran, the following tips will steer you and your family on the path to a smoother transition.

Before the move:

Fill them in: Children can easily sense tension, so it?s important they remain connected with the significant changes that accompany a move. Lori Collins Burgan, author of ?Moving with Kids: 25 Ways to Ease Your Family?s Transition to a New Home,? emphasizes how important it is to tell your child once the move is definite. ?Children trust their parents to tell them important information that affects their lives; this trust can be damaged if your child finds out you are planning a move before you tell them.?

Keep them involved: As a parent you know what your child can handle emotionally. While taking a child house hunting might work in some families, for others it makes sense to wait. ?Our children are visual learners, ?says Sharla Jordan, mother of six boys (four with special needs), ?so once we had a contract to buy our new home, I drew out a sketch of the floor plan and explained where their bedrooms would be and where their toys would go. This really helped reduce anxiety.?

Get up to date: Paperwork is easily overlooked during a move, so now is a good time to begin collecting your child?s medical and school records. This can include information such as current doctors and therapists, medications, IEPs, explanation of diagnosis and therapies your child currently receives.

Ask for referrals: Ask your child?s current doctors and therapists if they are aware of anyone who practices in your new location, or what professional organization you can turn to in order to find a qualified therapist.

Reach out to potential schools: Once you have a rough idea of what neighborhood you will be moving to, contact local schools and tell them about your child. Ask about what services the school is familiar with and also check to see if there are some local special needs families with whom you can?connect.

During the move:

Be prepared: Even before moving day arrived, Ms. Jordan knew one of her sons would have a difficult time. ?We arranged for a friend and neighbor to watch him, and the youngest two. We told him he was going to be the babysitter?s helper, so he felt like he was involved with the move.?

Recognize feelings of loss: Help your child recognize the many emotions they might have on moving day. While she might be excited to move to a bigger house so she can have her own bedroom, she might also be sad she will be so far away from her best friend.

Give you child choices: These don?t have to be big choices, and can be as simple as giving your child a backpack and having him fill it with toys or books that he wants to have near him for the car or airplane ride to your new residence.

Make sure her room is set up first: Seeing their familiar possessions in a new space will help your child feel less anxious about all the changes. Set aside her possessions and furniture and try to have them put in the moving truck last, that way they will be the first to be taken into the new house.

Take care of yourself: Make sure you don?t forget to look after yourself on moving day. Eat nutritious foods and drink plenty of water. Practice healthy coping skills and recognize your own emotions as you adjust to the changes. Model these behaviors first and then pass them onto your child.

After the move

Find some support: Moves are stressful on everyone and it?s important you take time to find support for yourself as well. ?Organizations, such as The Arc (www.thearc.org) and Best Buddies (www.bestbuddies.org) were a great help to my family when we moved?, says Troy McClain, brother and guardian of a younger sister, who is developmentally delayed and profoundly deaf. ?They understood both the needs of our family and the transitional bumps that occurred in my sister?s behavior and attitude during the move.?

Connect with other families: Reach out to families that have a child with a similar diagnosis, or families who live close by and have children that are a similar age. Having a friend to play with or to start school with can be a big help.

Visit the school: ?My son expresses his anxiety through inappropriate physical interactions with his friends,? says Eileen Wolter, mother of an autistic child, ?so taking him to visit the school several times before the start of the year really helped. He visited his classroom and met his teacher ahead of time so that first day wouldn?t be so nerve-wracking for him.?

Go on tour: of the house, of the town, of the parks, all the places that you need to visit to help your child adjust to their new surroundings.

Scheduling Changes: Schedules are important to many special needs children and can become easily derailed after a move; look for similar activities in your new location. ?When we were making our move,? says Mr. McClain, ?we knew that bowling on Monday was an important part of DoraLynn?s schedule, so we looked for a place where we could sign her up to bowl on Monday in our new town, which helped with the structure she needs.?

Make a personal moving story! Social stories are often used to help children on the autism spectrum prepare for new experiences, but Deborah Michael, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of North Shore Pediatric Therapy in Chicago, says they are a great tool to help any child deal with anxiety. Follow the guidelines below to help your child better understand the moving process.

  • Draw/take pictures/use magazine cut-outs of what will happen prior to the move (packing boxes, etc); what will happen the day of the move (movers will come; drive/saying good-bye to friends/fly to new house; furniture/boxes will arrive later); what the new house/town will look like. You might want to make three separate booklets.
  • Provide a separate page for each step of the move. Write a few sentences below each picture that will help explain the story to your child.
  • Keep the story positive; focus on your child?s strengths.
  • While it?s okay to point out potential problems that might arise during the move, it?s also important to provide solutions. For example, ?It will be sad to say good-bye to your friends, but you will meet new friends at your school.?
  • Introduce the booklet to your child as a bedtime story and keep it on their bookshelf, so it becomes part of their regular routine.
  • The earlier you can introduce the story before the move the better. Ms. Richardson, of Thriving with Autism, suggests introducing these stories at least 2-4 weeks in advance so the move will become a normal part of your child?s thinking.

Krystyann is a writer and education researcher who specializes in hearing loss and the impact it has on children and families. She writes from a parental, as well as a personal, perspective. She and her young son and were diagnosed with hearing loss one year apart.

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GOP tries to portray Biden as governing liability

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) ? Republicans have a new rhetorical punching bag: Vice President Joe Biden.

With relentless attacks aimed at portraying President Barack Obama's running mate as a governing liability, Republicans hope to raise the stature of GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, who will debate Biden next month, and score points in closely contested states such as Ohio, Florida and New Hampshire.

"Paul's a close friend, a great family man, and he's got a reformer's heart," Ohio Sen. Rob Portman said at last week's Republican convention in Tampa, Fla. "Contrast this to Joe Biden. Vice President Biden has told people out of work to 'just hang in there' ? so much for 'hope and change.'"

As Democrats prepare for their convention in Charlotte, N.C., the GOP is casting the 69-year-old former Delaware senator as a gaffe-prone crazy uncle who's hung around the political scene too long. The strategy tries to undermine the Obama campaign's chief surrogate and liaison to white, working-class voters and seniors, influential groups courted aggressively by both parties. At the same time, Republicans hopes that sullying Biden's image will help confirm Ryan, the 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman, as a deep thinker destined to take on many of the nation's most pressing challenges.

In an opinion piece published this past week by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson noted that Biden had said the economy felt like "a depression" and he accused the vice president of straying from "the Obama campaign talking points."

At the GOP convention, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who joined Obama, Biden and House Speaker John Boehner for a round of golf last year, recalled Biden telling him he was a "good golfer. And I played golf with Joe Biden, and I can tell you that is not true, as well as all of other things that he says."

Even unscripted moments have included knocks at Biden.

Actor Clint Eastwood's convention monologue, beside an empty chair, included a swipe at Biden.

"You're crazy, you're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden," Eastwood cracked in his made-up conversation with Obama. "Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it."

Biden himself has given as good as he gets.

He often is the loudest voice in the campaign's criticism against the Republican presidential nominee, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. Biden led the charge against Romney in a series of speeches in battleground states last spring. He routinely bashes Romney and Ryan's assertions of promoting a "bold" plan on taxes and the Medicare.

"There is nothing gutsy about giving another trillion dollars in tax cuts to millionaires. There is nothing bold about turning Medicare into a voucher system," Biden said in Lordstown, Ohio, on Friday.

Another favorite topic of Biden's has been the administration's rescue of General Motors and Chrysler. Turning to Lordstown's sprawling GM plant, which has rebounded with the production of the compact Chevy Cruze, Biden took Ryan to task for blaming Obama for the closing of his hometown Janesville, Wis., GM plant, and he highlighted Romney's opposition to a taxpayer rescue of the U.S. car companies. The Janesville plant closed in 2008, before Obama was sworn into office.

"What they didn't acknowledge is Gov. Romney's position was 'Let Detroit go bankrupt,'" Biden said, referring to the headline on a Romney opinion piece in The New York Times in November 2008.

Democrats say the extra attention serves notice of Biden's abilities as a campaigner, along with his penchant for forming bonds with blue-collar workers through stories about growing up in hardscrabble Scranton, Pa.

He can move an audience with stories about watching his proud yet unemployed father forced to move to Delaware to find work or the death of his first wife and daughter in a car accident shortly after he was elected to the Senate in 1972. Such personal stories make a direct connection with union workers in Ohio or grandmothers in Florida.

"It's an attempt to undermine what they believe is a potent political weapon in the Obama campaign's arsenal," said Democratic strategist Mike Feldman, a former aide to Vice President Al Gore. "If they were ignoring him that would tell you that they're not that concerned."

Of course, Biden can be prone to commit an unforced error from the podium, handing Republicans an opening.

Most recently, Biden told a Virginia crowd that included hundreds of African-Americans that Romney's plans for Wall Street would put them "back in chains."

In May, Biden said on a Sunday talk show that he was "absolutely comfortable" with same-sex married couples having the same rights as heterosexual married couples. That essentially forced Obama to move forward with his support of same-sex marriage. Biden later apologized to the president for going off-script.

Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, who managed GOP nominee John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, said Biden was a "formidable politician" and an "effective campaigner" who could garner support among voters prized by both campaigns, including blue-collar workers and Catholics in states such as Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Schmidt warned that the hits on Biden actually could have an unintended consequence heading into to the vice presidential debate set for Oct. 11 in Danville, Ky.

"When you ridicule someone, you're lowering expectations to a point that makes it a lot harder for Paul Ryan to score points," Schmidt said. "There's a downside in that."

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Associated Press writer Brian Bakst in Tampa, Fla., contributed to this report.

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OLPC delivers big OS update with text-to-speech, DisplayLink and WebKit

OLPC delivers big OS update with texttospeech, DisplayLink and WebKit

While most of its energy is focused on the XO-4 Touch, the One Laptop Per Child project is swinging into full gear for software, too. The project team has just posted an OS 12.1.0 update that sweetens the Sugar for at least present-day XO units. As of this latest revamp, text-to-speech is woven into the interface and vocalizes any selectable text -- a big help for students that are more comfortable speaking their language than reading it. USB video output has been given its own lift through support for more ubiquitous DisplayLink adapters. If you're looking for the majority of changes, however, they're under-the-hood tweaks to bring the OLPC architecture up to snuff. Upgrades to GTK3+ and GNOME 3.4 help, but we're primarily noticing a shift from Mozilla's web engine to WebKit for browsing: although the OLPC crew may have been forced to swap code because of Mozilla's policies on third-party apps, it's promising a much faster and more Sugar-tinged web experience as part of the switch. While they're not the same as getting an XO-3 tablet, the upgrades found at the source link are big enough that classrooms (and the occasional individual) will be glad they held on to that early XO model.

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Managing Gas and Electricity Bills


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The most beneficial thing that you can today is to find ways of cutting your expenses. Electricity and gas bills are some of the most pressing and by finding ways of cutting or saving on them, you will enjoy life more and you will be in control of your daily budget which is beneficial in every sense. There are simple steps that you can take to put you in control of the electricity and gas bills which have proved to be a headache for many.

Comparing the prices is one of the things that will help you in managing these bills. This comparison will give you the chance to see what the suppliers out there have to offer and then you can decide which switch will be best for the needs that you have. The comparison has been made easy by websites which will give you a list of the gas and electricity suppliers in your area and the rates that they have. These sites are updated on a regular basis and you can therefore expect to find the most recent rates thus making the switch easy for you.

The other simply way of managing the bills is to check on the tariffs which could be beneficial. For instance, dual tariffs can be beneficial. This simply means that you will be getting your electricity and gas from the same supplier at a rate that is quite reasonable thus giving you the chance to cut on the energy bills making it possible for you to save. This is however not always the case and even when settling for the dual tariff arrangement, you will still need to check on all aspects of the arrangements to ensure that you are indeed benefitting from it.

To get the best prices for your gas or electricity, you will need to keep a close eye on the market. Simple price changes can make all the difference. You however will also need to consider just how long the price change offer will last to avoid instances where you keep switching from one supplier to another. Those suppliers offering a more permanent or long term change in the prices should be the ones to be considered but will still be important to regularly check on the market prices to see whether a switch is necessary. It is the best way to be in control of your bills around the house.

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Kentucky ranks third among the states in child obesity, a problem ...

By Tara Kaprowy
Kentucky Health News

At every Girl Scouts meeting, Christmas concert, soccer field and swimming pool in Kentucky lies a trend that is easy to spot. It doesn't have to do with the Toms on the children's feet or the feathers affixed to their hair. It's the fact that every third child in Kentucky is overweight, and many of them are obese. As they stand in front of the crowd or struggle to swim to the other side, the problem is plain. Its consequences are not so plan, but are far-reaching.

Kentucky has the third-highest childhood obesity rate in the country and the seventh-highest rate in adult obesity, Trust for America's Health's "F as in Fat" report shows. Sixty percent of Kentucky women and 80 percent of men living the state are either overweight or obese.

Estimates show that one in three children who were born in the year 2000 will develop Type II diabetes at one point in their lives, in large part because of the food choices they make. "We're also seeing lots of heart indicators, like high-blood pressure, high lipids and cardiac changes, in kids that are overweight," said Dr. Christopher Bolling, a pediatrician in Kenton County. "And we're seeing a lot of other issues like liver disease and kids with orthopedic problems."

Obese children can also have breathing problems like sleep apnea and asthma. They struggle with low self-esteem and the depression that can result from it. And they are the first American generation expected to live a shorter life than their parents. "They're taking medicine we used to give to old people," said Duff Holcomb, the schools nurse in Laurel County. "They're 15 and 16, so what are they going to be like when they're 36?"

The issue stems from "a perfect storm" of factors, said Elaine Russell, the state's obesity prevention coordinator. "Our food is high in calories with little nutrients," she said. "A lot of physical education has been taken out of normal daily routines."

And food is everywhere, from billboards to unexpected places like cash registers at T.J. Maxx and Office Depot, Russell said. One study found kids see about 4,000 television commercials advertising food each year. During Saturday morning cartoons, they see a food ad nearly every five minutes, and about 95 percent are pushing food with poor nutritional value. "And it's not just TV," Russell said. "Look at all the billboards, look at the Internet, look at your packaging, with characters that say, 'Come see me and do the Web game.'"

The variety of food is also staggering, Russell pointed out. "Look and see how many Oreos there are. It's not just Oreo or double-stuffed. There's also ones with mint and peanut butter. How many different chips? How many different sodas? Our choices are so unlimited."

So, it's easy for children to make the wrong choices. Almost 40 percent of the total calories consumed by 2- to 18-year-olds are in the form of empty calories, meaning solid fat and added sugars. Next to Mississippi, Kentucky youth drink the most soft drinks in the country ? up to 89 gallons per person, according to information researchers at the University of Kentucky's Nutrition Education Program compiled from the USDA's Food Environment Atlas. Meanwhile, just 17 percent of Kentucky high school students reported eating fruit and vegetables five times per day over a week's time, the amount recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture.

Children adopt bad eating habits from their parents, who "gatekeepers" of the kitchen, Russell said. "If Mom and Dad are feeding you [junk food] then you tend to eat that because that's what available to you."

Parents blame busy schedules and lack of time ? and they are busier, in large part because both parents work in most households. Also,?many of today's parents either don't like to cook, or can't.

Debra Cotterill teaches cooking classes for the University of Kentucky's Nutrition Education Program and is often shocked at the decline in cooking skills. "There's people out there who have said to me that they literally did not know how to boil water," she said. "I've also met people who live on candy and packaged chips because they don't know how to cook."?Ginger Gray, director of food services in Kenton County Schools, was not surprised, saying many of today's parents "are a generation of microwave users."

Exacerbating the problem is a lack of exercise. Gone are the days of students heading to the change room to get ready for gym class. In Kentucky, elementary schools must offer some type of physical activity for 30 minutes each day, but that can include unsupervised recess. There are no physical education requirements in middle schools, and high-school students just need to take one half-credit of phys-ed to graduate. The decline in phys-ed is coupled with the fact that kids lead an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. In Kentucky, nearly one in three high school students watch three or more hours of TV each day and more than 60 percent of kids have a TV in their bedroom.

A lack of play time after school is another culprit, in large part because "There's a lot of media that say it's not safe to go outside and play," Russell said. In fact, just over 100 children are kidnapped in a stereotypical way each year in the U.S., according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, and the number of violent crimes was lower last year than it has been in 40 years. Yet, fear of the unknown is embedded in parents, Gray said, who sees parents waiting in their running cars for their children to be dropped off at bus stops. "What a huge impact changing that attitude would make," she said.

While the report "Shaping Kentucky's Future: A Community Guide to Reducing Obesity"?estimates 33 percent of Kentucky children are already overweight or obese, there is no way of knowing how those numbers vary county to county, because there is no systematic collection of them. Body-mass index, a rough measure of fat to weight, is measured statewide only for children aged 2 to 4 in the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program. "Some individual school districts and counties are collecting more information, but it is spotty," said Sarah Walsh, senior program officer at the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.

Starting this school year, the state board of education started requiring that there be a place on the state health exam form that includes a student's BMI, though physicians are not required to fill it in. The exams are required when a student enters school in Kentucky, generally in kindergarten, and again when a student is about to enter the sixth grade. "I would say it's a start but this is not a mandate on students or parents or physicians or schools. This is an option," said Lisa Gross, spokeswoman for the Kentucky Department of Education. Still, the BMI information could be shared at the aggregate level if the Department of Public Health asked for it as part of an analysis, Gross said.

But regardless of what data is collected, there is a problem "showing us basically whatever age group you look at, you've got too high of a proportion of children who are overweight and obese," said Amy Swann, senior policy analyst for Kentucky Youth Advocates. Some data show obesity rates are higher in children living in the Appalachian part of the state. Many studies also correlate children from low-income families with higher obesity rates. Giving counties an idea of where they stand is essential to getting a handle on the fight. "There is an old adage that 'what gets measured gets done,' and it couldn't be more true in this case," said Susan Zepeda, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky. "Local communities need to know where they stand on this important health issue so they can track progress and really make changes with childhood obesity."

NEXT: What is being done in nationwide, in Kentucky, and in individual communities to address the problem.

Kentucky Health News is a service of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, based in the School of Journalism and Telecommunications at the University of Kentucky, with support from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky.

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Terell Thomas, Brandon BingAP

The Giants got down to 53 players today and two veteran defensive players wound up on injured reserve on their way to that number.

Cornerback Terrell Thomas and defensive tackle Shaun Rogers have both been shelved for the season as players placed on injured reserve without first making the 53-man roster are not eligible to be designated as short-term injured reserve players under the rule adopted this week. There had been hopeful signs about both players in recent days, which made it seem like they could be considered for the new designation. That turned out not to be the case.

It?s a brutal blow for Thomas, who was coming off a torn ACL when he re-injured the same knee early in camp. Doctors determined there was not another tear and that Thomas could rehab the injury without surgery, but the Giants obviously don?t think he?s going to get to a place where he can help them this year. Thomas will almost certainly become a free agent after the season as the Giants have an out after the first year of the four-year deal he signed this offseason and it will be interesting to see what he has left after two full years off the field.

Rogers has a blood clot in his league that was originally thought to be a season-ending condition. There were reports to the contrary, but it turns out the first word was the right word. Defensive tackle Marvin Austin, who has battled a back injury much of the summer, made the 53-man roster and could be a candidate for the new short term provision.

We?ve reported on several of the Giants cuts already on Friday, but here?s the full list: They waived/injured cornerback Bruce Johnson and cut wide receivers David Douglas, Dan DePalma and Isiah Stanback, defensive ends Craig Marshall and Matt Broha, defensive tackles Marcus Thomas and Dwayne Hendricks, linebacker Jake Muasau, tight end Larry Donnell, offensive linemen Chris White, Matt McCants, Selvish Capers and Stephen Goodin, defensive backs Laron Scott and Dante Hughes and quarterback Ryan Perrilloux.

Safety Tyler Sash will spend the first four weeks of the season serving a suspension.

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Lindsay Lohan Blames Liz & Dick Producers For Hotel Tab


Lindsay Lohan was recently banned from the Chateau Marmont hotel over an unpaid bill of more than $46,000, but she claims it's all - gasp - a misunderstanding!

When it comes to the LiLo Book of Excuses, that's always a go-to.

The actress says she thought the producers of Lifetime's Liz and Dick would pay her tab ... even though insiders say no such promise was made by Lifetime.

We foresee Lady Gaga making another joke at her expense.

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Producers did give Linds a one-time only, $5,000 advance against her salary in late May so she could move into the hotel, TMZ reports, but that was it.

There was never even an insinuation that the production company would pay her hotel bill, much less a promise that they'd pony up tens of thousands.

Lindsay has said if the production company doesn't cover the hotel bill, she will. Even if she has to steal some watches to pay for it. Just kidding (mostly).

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Wind power predictable enough to help keep lights on - IPPR

LONDON (Reuters) - Wind power in Britain is predictable enough that the grid can rely on it to help keep the lights on, despite spells of cold, calm weather, while it cuts carbon emissions significantly, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said.

Critics have said wind power cannot be relied upon at times that demand is the greatest, cannot be stored and does not cut enough carbon to make large investments worthwhile.

Earlier this year, over 100 members of parliament urged the prime minister to cut support to the onshore wind industry and spread the savings to other forms of renewable energy that they saw as more reliable.

"The reliability and security of wind power does not depend on the variability of wind but instead on how well changes in wind power output can be predicted and managed," thinktank IPPR said in a report on Thursday.

Carbon savings from 15.5 terrawatt hours of wind energy in Britain in 2011 amounted to at least 5.5 million tonnes, or around 2.5 percent of the emissions the UK has promised to cut over 2008-2012, the report said.

In July, the UK cut subsidies for onshore wind by 10 percent from 2013, but some investors expected a greater reduction of 25 percent.

GRID CAN COPE

Wind farm output can be forecast 24 hours ahead.

Statistical analysis shows that the most extreme changes in output amount to around 20 percent of total wind generation capacity in half an hour, the report said.

In the worst case, wind production could drop as electricity demand is rising.

"However it is important to reiterate that changes in wind production are to a large degree predictable: the operators can see rapid changes coming, or at the very least, be forewarned of the risk of rapid changes," the report said.

"On the rare occasions when this could cause difficulty, electricity system operators can instruct the wind generation segment of the system to limit the rate at which its output increases or to reduce its output gradually in advance of a reduction in wind speed."

Extended periods of low wind speed and cold, when power demand is high for heating, also could pose problems.

The electricity system has enough fossil fuel capacity in reserve, however, that it should still manage to provide secure supplies to meet that demand, IPPR said.

The National Grid has said it can accommodate 30 gigawatts (GW) of wind power by 2020, slightly more than the 28 GW the government expects to be online by that time to help meet its carbon reduction targets. About 5 GW are online currently.

More efficient energy use in homes and businesses, smart meters, electric vehicles, better energy storage and the use of natural gas to make up a capacity shortfall during a long, cold calm spell could help the grid adapt, IPPR said.

Interconnections between electricity systems should also be improved to allow the grid to tap wind resources in other parts of Britain or elsewhere in Europe when cold and calm periods occur in one area.

"International evidence shows (wind is) wholly viable, and yet we're still not taking full advantage of it in terms of deployment," lobby group RenewableUK chief executive, Maria McCaffery, said in response to the report.

"British families are still being hit hard by rising wholesale fossil fuel prices."

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(Reporting by Nina Chestney; editing by Jane Baird)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/wind-power-predictable-enough-help-keep-lights-ippr-112215277.html

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