the U.S. wind industry just had its best first quarter in four years.
With strong installation and under construction numbers, as well as new technological advances, 2016 is already building off last year’s success.
Wind by the numbers
520 megawatts (MW) of new capacity came online during 2016’s first quarter, bringing the country ever-so close to 75 gigawatts (GW) of total installed capacity. In all, there’s now enough wind energy in the U.S. to power 20 million American homes.
And there’s more of the way. Over 10 GW of new wind power is currently under construction, and another 5.1 GW are in the advanced stages of development.
40 states plus Puerto Rico, and for the first time Guam, now have utility-scale wind projects.During the year’s first three months, new wind projects came online in New Mexico, Iowa, Utah, Ohio and Oklahoma.....
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