{"id":482,"date":"2016-03-28T10:24:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/?p=482"},"modified":"2016-03-25T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T19:27:31","slug":"u-s-still-leads-the-way-in-electricity-generation-from-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/u-s-still-leads-the-way-in-electricity-generation-from-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. still leads the way in electricity generation from wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wind accounted for nearly 5 percent of U.S. electricity in 2015<\/h2>\n<p>The United States is maintaining its role as a leader of wind energy production across the globe, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in a recent report.<\/p>\n<p>According to the AWEA, the U.S. wind generated more than 190 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in 2015, which leads second-place China (185.1 million MWh) by a small margin and third-place Germany (84.6 million MWh) by a wide margin.<\/p>\n<p>The 190 million MWh on wind-generated electricity is enough to power roughly 17.5 million U.S. homes, the AWEA noted.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U.S. sets pace for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/windpower?src=hash\">#windpower<\/a> production again in 2015, creating more wind energy than any other country <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/windworks?src=hash\">#windworks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E7ZAwegQMr\">pic.twitter.com\/E7ZAwegQMr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; American Wind Energy (@AWEA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AWEA\/status\/704433982172176384\">February 29, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Wind besting solar<\/h3>\n<p>Wind generated about 4.7 percent of all electricity in the U.S. last year, a total that is more than five times larger than solar, which generated approximately 0.94 percent of all U.S. electricity in 2015. <\/p>\n<p>The total amount of electricity generated by wind in 2015 was enough meet demand in trio of large states, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Kansas, the AWEA said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Did you know 12 states get at least 10% of their electricity from wind? See if your state is on the list <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/windworks?src=hash\">#windworks<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H9tsaba23o\">pic.twitter.com\/H9tsaba23o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; American Wind Energy (@AWEA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AWEA\/status\/704658077354688512\">March 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Distribution of wind energy wealth<\/h3>\n<p>A growing list of states generated a minimum of 10 percent of electricity from wind in 2015. All told, twelve states &#8212; Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Minnesota, Idaho, Colorado, Oregon, Texas, Maine and Vermont &#8212; met that 10-percent mark last year.<\/p>\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Orginally published on &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-wisdom.com\/news\/awea-u-s-is-tops-in-the-world-in-wind-energy-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">E-Wisdom<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the AWEA, the U.S. wind generated more than 190 million megawatt-hours (MWh) in 2015, which leads second-place China (185.1 million MWh) by a small margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,7],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/utilitieslocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}