August 14th, 2012
The American Wind energy Association released their 2005 Wind Industry Ranking Report: "The rankings, which include the leading states for wind energy development, the suppliers of wind energy turbines, and owners and purchasers of wind energy, provide a useful measure of the size and breadth of the American wind energy industry. The industry easily broke earlier records in 2005, installing over 2,400 megawatts (MW) or over $3 billion worth of new generating equipment in 22 states." A summary table from the report shows:
States with most wind energy installed, by capacity (MW):
#1 California – 2,150 MW
#2 Texas – 1,995 MW
#3 Iowa – 836 MW
#4 Minnesota – 744 MW
#5 Oklahoma – 475 MW
#6 New Mexico – 407 MW
#7 Washington – 390 MW
#8 Oregon – 338 MW
#9 Wyoming – 288 MW
#10 Kansas – 264 MW
Assuming that 4000 MW provides power to about 1 Million homes:
#1 California – 540,000 Homes
#2 Texas – 500,000 Homes
#3 Iowa – 210,000 Homes
#4 Minnesota – 190,000 Homes
#5 Oklahoma – 120,000 Homes
#6 New Mexico – 100,000 Homes
#7 Washington – 100,000 Homes
#8 Oregon – 80,000 Homes
#9 Wyoming – 70,000 Homes
#10 Kansas – 70,000 Homes
Wind Industry Report March 2006
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:59 pm
This is great! One question: Is there any way around the authentication issue? I have a portal which requires a login/password. Am I out of luck?