Texas Helps Wind Power Surpass Hydro as Top Source of Renewable Energy

Texas Helps Wind Power Surpass Hydro as Top Source of Renewable Energy

Feb 13, 2017

by Margarita Fournier; Copyright 2016 by Competitive Assets, LLC.  All rights reserved

On 2/10/17, Electric Light & Power reported that “American wind power just achieved its second strongest quarter ever for newly installed energy generating capacity according to a new report released today by the American Wind Energy Association. Wind power surpassed hydropower dams to become the largest source of renewable electric capacity in the U.S., and the fourth largest overall. Business leaders from General Motors and the U.S. wind energy industry met Thursday morning to mark this historic milestone and release AWEA’s Fourth Quarter 2016 U.S. Wind Industry Market Report at General Motor’s Arlington [TX] Assembly Plant, which will soon be 100 percent wind-powered…. The company purchases energy from two Texas wind farms, RES’s Cactus Flats in Concho County and EDPR’s Los Mirasoles Wind Farm in Edinburg. Non-utility purchasers, like GM, Microsoft, and the Department of Defense, represent 39 percent of wind purchased through long-term contracts in 2016, totaling 1,574MW. More than half of that capacity is located in Texas.” The article contains many more details about the growth of wind power in Texas.

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