USA is Now the World’s Largest Generator of Wind Energy
The statistics are in for the first half of 2008 and they show that USA, for the first time, generated more wind energy than Germany. This “milestone” wasn’t expected to be reached until late 2009.
Germany still has more wind turbines than USA and is able to generate 22,000 – 23,000 megawatts of power compared to USA’s capacity of about 18,000 megawatts.
But Randall Swisher, the executive director of the American Wind Energy Association, said that “the difference is that because the winds are so much stronger here in the U.S. we are actually providing more wind-generated electricity than Germany.” He also said that the US “wind energy capacity is growing faster than anyplace else.”
This is great news but USA is still far behind everyone else in terms of green renewable energy, especially wind energy.
