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Originally Posted by gpsman1
Take what ever the U.S. gov says our wind power capacity was in MW in the most recent report and probably double it... since the statistics folks can't keep up with the construction folks.-John
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Don't know if you doubling guess is accurate here's an article that says we're up 45% last year, I think they follow this data closely.
What I'll add is that when you consider the capacity factor or efficiency of the energy source compared to the rated MW wind vs Nuclear or Coal is very misleading and overstates it's actual production.
http://www.nei.org/filefolder/US_Cap..._Fuel_Type.ppt
With nuclear at an 89.6% capacity factor and wind at 30.9% nuclear beats wind by a factor of 2.9 in delivering GWh to the grid per rated MW.
The 5244 MW of wind added last year is equivalent to 1808 MW of nuclear, or 2282 MW of coal.