{"id":645085,"date":"2010-01-27T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1278\/10-gw-of-wind-power-installed-in-u-s-last-year.html"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:49:00","slug":"10-gw-of-wind-power-installed-in-u-s-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/645085","title":{"rendered":"10 GW of wind power installed in U.S. last year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2009-wind\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/2009-wind.jpg?resize=468%2C183\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With all of the conflict over <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/wind-power\/3040-fight-over-cape-winds-fate-will-end-soon\">Cape Wind<\/a> and the constant reduction in scope of <a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/wind-power\/2847-pickens-walks-away-from-worlds-largest-wind-farm\">T. Boone Pickens&#8217; wind projects<\/a>, it&#8217;s easy to feel discouraged, but here&#8217;s something to lift your spirits.\u00a0 Great news came from the American Wind Energy Association today.<\/p>\n<p>During 2009, 10 GW of new wind power capacity was installed in the U.S., enough to power 2.4 million homes.\u00a0 The last quarter of 2009 saw the installation of 4 GW alone.<\/p>\n<p>The association gives credit to the American Recovery and Investment Act&#8217;s $80 billion investment in clean energy for the largest installation for any year so far. You can read the association&#8217;s full report on the year in wind <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awea.org\/publications\/reports\/4Q09.pdf\">here (PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With big wind projects on the horizon for the next few years, and if all goes as planned, that annual number should keep going up.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energyboom.com\/wind\/new-report-record-breaking-year-wind-energy-united-states?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eboom_wind+%28EnergyBoom+Wind%29\">Energy Boom<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/0pbj6altrhm\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the conflict over Cape Wind and the constant reduction in scope of T. Boone Pickens&#8217; wind projects, it&#8217;s easy to feel discouraged, but here&#8217;s something to lift your spirits.\u00a0 Great news came from the American Wind Energy Association today. During 2009, 10 GW of new wind power capacity was installed in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2HOB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}