Specifically, wind states.
Nearly ninety percent of all the new capacity for wind generation installed in 2016 were in states that voted for Trump.
Wind supplied just over 6% of the country’s electricity last year, and the industry employed close to 102,000 people—nearly double the number working in coal mining, according to federal data.
President Donald Trump campaigned in part on reviving the U.S. coal industry, and has been critical of renewable-energy subsidies. But heavily Republican states such as Indiana, Iowa, Texas and Wyoming have embraced wind for the work and revenue it brings.
Nearly 90% of the wind capacity brought online in 2016 was in states that voted for President Donald Trump, according to the American Wind Energy Association, a trade group.
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While some in Congress have argued against the federal subsidies wind energy receives, Mr. Grassley said that support helped build an industry that creates jobs and lowers the nation’s need for foreign oil.
“It helps us to be energy independent,” he said, adding that wind’s growing competitiveness with traditional energy sources has diminished the need for wind tax credits, which are being phased out.
Excluding subsidies, it now costs about $47 per megawatt hour to generate electricity from wind in North America over the full lifetime of a facility, compared with $63 for natural gas and $102 for coal, according to a 2016 analysis by Lazard Ltd.
Wind now produces more than 36% of Iowa’s electricity, nearly 7 gigawatts of capacity in all, second only to Texas’s 21 gigawatts. The falling price of wind power, along with its environmental benefits, helped persuade companies like Facebook Inc . , Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to open data centers in the state, said Debi Durham, director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority.
“We use this wind portfolio, this renewable portfolio, as a calling card when we are talking to companies,” she said.
Wind Power Wins Converts in Rural U.S.
Red states embracing renewables?
Good stuff.
Technological advancement is awesome.
Nearly ninety percent of all the new capacity for wind generation installed in 2016 were in states that voted for Trump.
Wind supplied just over 6% of the country’s electricity last year, and the industry employed close to 102,000 people—nearly double the number working in coal mining, according to federal data.
President Donald Trump campaigned in part on reviving the U.S. coal industry, and has been critical of renewable-energy subsidies. But heavily Republican states such as Indiana, Iowa, Texas and Wyoming have embraced wind for the work and revenue it brings.
Nearly 90% of the wind capacity brought online in 2016 was in states that voted for President Donald Trump, according to the American Wind Energy Association, a trade group.
...
While some in Congress have argued against the federal subsidies wind energy receives, Mr. Grassley said that support helped build an industry that creates jobs and lowers the nation’s need for foreign oil.
“It helps us to be energy independent,” he said, adding that wind’s growing competitiveness with traditional energy sources has diminished the need for wind tax credits, which are being phased out.
Excluding subsidies, it now costs about $47 per megawatt hour to generate electricity from wind in North America over the full lifetime of a facility, compared with $63 for natural gas and $102 for coal, according to a 2016 analysis by Lazard Ltd.
Wind now produces more than 36% of Iowa’s electricity, nearly 7 gigawatts of capacity in all, second only to Texas’s 21 gigawatts. The falling price of wind power, along with its environmental benefits, helped persuade companies like Facebook Inc . , Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to open data centers in the state, said Debi Durham, director of the Iowa Economic Development Authority.
“We use this wind portfolio, this renewable portfolio, as a calling card when we are talking to companies,” she said.
Wind Power Wins Converts in Rural U.S.
Red states embracing renewables?
Good stuff.
Technological advancement is awesome.
