Localized wind power blowing more near homes, farms & factories

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http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1002

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Localized wind power blowing more near homes, farms & factories[/font]

August 06, 2013

Frances White, PNNL, [phone]

[font size=4]New report provides first detailed look at distributed wind across U.S.[/font]

[font size=3] Americans are increasingly installing wind turbines near their homes, farms and businesses to generate their own energy, concludes a new report released today.

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Some of the report's findings include:

• 68 percent of all wind turbines installed in U.S. between 2003-2012 were distributed wind turbines, representing about 69,000 turbines that can generate 812 megawatts combined
• About a third of all wind turbines installed in the U.S. in 2012 were distributed wind turbines, representing about 3,800 turbines that can generate 175 megawatts combined
• While the total number of distributed wind turbines installed in 2012 declined by nearly 50 percent, the amount of power those new turbines could potentially produce increased by 62 percent.
• This shift is mainly because more large turbines are being used in distributed wind projects.

More information can be found in the full report and at DOE's news release.[/font][/font]

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1. Interesting to put that into perspective

So all of the distributed wind turbines installed in the US in the last decade combined add up to about one quarter of a single common nuclear reactor?