Mark Parkinson made a bold prediction about the state’s future in wind energy in his speech to the Legislature on Thursday. Kansas will move from 1,000 megawatts today to 10,000-20,000 megawatts by 2030, mostly in western Kansas. Even better, he said:
Factories will dot the state to supply these wind farms, and a corridor of factories from Wichita to Salina will develop that will make Kansas the renewable energy leader of the country.