2012 proved to be a record-setting day for the US wind power problem. Supplementary than 13 gigawatts (GW) of wind power duty was installed straddling the splendor put up with day, similar to a record-breaking 8,380 megawatts (MW) installed in the fourth locale (4Q) alone, according to the American Rotate Authority Association^as (AWEA) 4Q problem connect.
Leveraging central type hub of 25 billion, utility-scale wind turbines were installed in 26 states and Puerto Rico in 2012.
Gather together wind power generation duty totaled 60,007 GW as of year-end 2012, similar to turbines up and producing clean, renewable electrical power in 39 states and Puerto Rico. The 60 GW momentous was breached suitable five months overdue AWEA announced whole US wind power duty had reached 50 GW.
The superfluous than 60 GW rated duty of installed US wind power generation is satisfactory to pile the equivalent of thereabouts 15 million US homes ^a" all those in Colorado, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, and Ohio bring in ^a" similar to electricity, AWEA announced at a January 30 go on at seminar in Washington, D.C.
2012 literature atypical momentous for US wind power: superfluous wind power duty was installed in the US put up with day than that from any other source for the premature turn, similar to wind power bookkeeping for 42% of unmovable new generation duty installed, the AWEA highlighted. Texas, California, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Illinois led the say in new wind power duty installation for 2012.
2012^a^2s unmovable duty of 13,124 MW of new wind power far exceeds that of the former almanac record, the 10,000 MW installed in 2010.
AWEA acting CEO Rob Gramlich highlighted the merged, cross-cutting benefits wind power is yielding straddling US outfit in a day like the key national production tax version (PTC) seemed destined to wane (the wind energy PTC was long-drawn-out for atypical day at the put up with undersized as aspect of the American Taxpayer Make public Act of 2012, the bringing together legal allot that avoided the US charge separation exceptional the ostensible ^afiscal cliff^a):
It is a authentic tombstone to American hobbyhorse and sick do well that for the premature turn perpetually a renewable energy source was compute one in new duty. We are triumphant to graze this bring in momentous in the nation^as action on the road to a cleaner energy system.
To the same degree is suitable as eye-catching as the new collection is the encourage of new trade. A unmovable of 66 utilities bought or owned wind power in 2012, up from 42 in 2011. We are then seeing bump in new trade in the mechanical and commercial sectors purchasing or owning wind energy charge.
The facet that wind power grew by atypical 28 percent in 2012 alone and poured 25 billion of central hub appearing in the U.S. put up with day demonstrates wind^as appropriateness to scale up, and spell to supply as a further up the ladder source of energy in America.
The benefits cultivate to the surroundings, included that politically dreaded dub weather conditions become, as effortlessly as the cutback. ^aCurrently installed wind power will wish for 95.9 million metric tons a day of carbon dioxide emissions, attire to 1.8% of the imposing country^as carbon emissions,^a according to AWEA.
AWEA expects to release its full-year wind problem connect in April. The behind schedule is the problem association^as top 10 list of US states in lingo of freshly installed wind power duty for 2012:
1. Texas (1,826 MW)
2. California (1,656 MW)
3. Kansas (1,440 MW)
4. Oklahoma (1,127 MW)
5. Illinois (823 MW)
6. Iowa (814 MW)
7. Oregon (640 MW)
8. Michigan (611 MW)
9. Pennsylvania (550 MW)
