3 years ago
How many megawatts of wind power does the US produce?
The US is the number producer of wind power in the world. How much does electricity does wind power produce and what is the five year plan for wind production?
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The U.S. has 21,017 MW of wind capacity installed according to the American Wind Energy Association. Their goal is to produce 20% of the U.S. electric power supply by 2030 as envisioned by the U.S. Department of Energy
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You have stated the wind capacity. I'm interested in how much installed wind power was generation in 2009.
About 2.3 Trillion dollars. See http://20percentwind.org/20percent_wind_energy_report_revOct08.pdf for details. The wind people say this is only slightly more than teh No Wind scenario because of the lower fule costs.