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Wind farms flourishing in USA

Wind Farms Flourish Across The U.S. As Interest In Renewable Energy Skyrockets HUFFINGTON POST 26 march 14, From Climate Central’s Bobby Magill:In New York and many other cities across the U.S., you’re likely to have access to a program that will allow your home to be powered with wind energy through your local utility, reducing your home’s reliance on climate-changing fossil fuels for electricity.

But where are the wind farms that produce that energy?

Two new online interactive maps produced by the federal government show where the nation’s wind farms are, how quickly they were built and what impact they may have on the landscape.Wind energy is expected to make up about 4.6 percent of total U.S. electric power generation by 2015, totaling about 77,000 megawatts of wind power capacity nationwide, U.S. Energy Information Administration data show. That’s up from 3 percent in 2012, when total U.S. wind power generation capacity was about 60,000 megawatts. One megawatt of wind power is enough energy to provide electricity to roughly 300 homes.

A new interactive map featured on the U.S. Department of Energy’s website shows how fast all those wind farms were constructed………http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/26/wind-farms-us_n_5037512.html

March 28, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | renewable