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EIA: U.S. double wind power share in five years

Xinhua, October 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

The United States generated 190,927 gigawatthours (GWh) of electricity in 2015 from wind, doubling its wind power share in five years, said the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday.

The U.S. wind facilities produced 190,927 GWh of electricity in 2015, accounting for 4.7 percent of the country' s total electricity generation, said EIA.

This level represents a doubling of wind' s generation share since 2010, when the share was 2.3 percent, said EIA.

Based on monthly data through July, wind has provided 5.6 percent of U.S. power generation in 2016, added EIA.

More and more U.S. states have embraced wind power since 2010 making eleven states generate at least 10 percent of their total electricity from wind in 2015, while in 2010 only three states had such wind power penetration rate, said EIA.

The state of Iowa had the largest wind generation share at 31.3 percent, followed by South Dakota at 25.5 percent and Kansas at 23.9 percent.

Texas kept the title of the country' s the largest wind power state in 2015, making up 24 percent of the U.S. total wind generation. Enditem