by Rye Druzin | www.chron.com
Texas wind hit a new generation record on Monday as steady winds through West Texas and the Panhandle kept the state’s wind turbines spinning.
The record 17,920 megawatts of wind generation was hit at 3:32 p.m. Monday and made up more than 40 percent of power generation in the territory covered by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, Texas’ grid operator. Wind speeds in …