Fairley writes clearly for the general public about emerging technology to make wind power more practical. Integrating wind forecasting into grid planning can reliably add wind power and maximize pollution reductions (systems will not need as large an amount of conventional more polluting reserves for backup. Interestingly, the technology was in place in Texas to avoid the recent emergency power cuts to customers who had volunteered to be compensated for the same. The utility, however, had failed to integrate the information: a wind advocate explains, "The system operators didn't know that was coming, but the forecasters did...They just didn't walk it over to the right person. If they had integrated it into their system operation, things would have gone very differently."