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April 8, 2022 10:02 pm
Original Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/04/08/205207/us-wind-energy-just-hit-a-major-milestone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
US Wind Energy Just Hit a Major Milestone
The United States set a major renewable energy milestone last Tuesday: wind power was the second-highest source of electricity for the first time since the Energy Information Administration began gathering the data. From a report: As E&E reporter Ben Storrow noted and the EIA confirmed, wind turbines last Tuesday generated over 2,000 gigawatt-hours of electricity, edging out electricity generated by nuclear and coal (but still trailing behind natural gas). Last year, wind was the fourth-largest electricity source behind natural gas, coal, and nuclear, generating close to 380 terawatt-hours for the entire year, according to the EIA. For context, a terawatt is a thousand times bigger than a gigawatt. Major milestone aside, wind energy in the US is still lagging behind one European country that recently broke a record of its own: Germany. Although the US has more wind capacity by sheer numbers -- it's a larger country with a larger population -- Germany is outpacing the US in terms of how much electricity it gets from wind. In February alone, windmills in Germany generated a record 20.6 terawatt-hours of wind energy, Rystad Energy reported Tuesday, which made up 45% of its total energy in February. In 2020 -- the most recent year the EIA has robust statistics for -- Germany got 24% of its electricity from wind, compared to 8% in the US.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/22/04/08/205207/us-wind-energy-just-hit-a-major-milestone?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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