The World Celebrates Wind Day

Global Wind Day: wind power companies have come a long way

Susy Bento, June 15, 2017 (Into The Wind)

"…[Global Wind Day] has become a worldwide holiday…[and an opportunity to look at] how this industry has grown…Windmills go back thousands of years…[In 1887,] the first windmill was used to generate electricity…[In the 1970s,] the United States go/vernment began [studying 13] commercial wind turbines…[There are now over 53,000 U.S. turbines in service and wind] prices have dropped 66 percent in the past seven years…In many parts of the U.S., wind is now the cheapest source of new generating capacity…Worldwide, there are now 1.2 million wind jobs…[Wind supplies about 5.5 percent of U.S. electricity, and it’s on track to supply 10 percent by 2020…” click here for more

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