{"id":577950,"date":"2015-12-28T20:15:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T01:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=577950"},"modified":"2016-01-25T22:50:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T03:50:09","slug":"some-good-news-blows-wind-energys-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/some-good-news-blows-wind-energys-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Some good news blows wind energy&#8217;s way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so much consumer interest in Solar PV, another, much larger source of new renewable energy in the US &#8211; <b class=\"c\">wind power<\/b> &#8211; doesn&#8217;t get much attention.  The attention wind does get in the media tends toward the negative &#8211; the challenges of siting wind turbines on land or offshore.  But those very real challenges miss most of the story.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting some good news recently about wind power in the United States:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.awea.org\/resources\/statefactsheets.aspx?itemnumber=890\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-586127\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/State-Wind-Fact-Sheets-app-image-300x268.png\" alt=\"State Wind Fact Sheets app image\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-586127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/State-Wind-Fact-Sheets-app-image-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/State-Wind-Fact-Sheets-app-image.png 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>70 GW<\/b> of wind electric generating capacity is now installed in the US, representing almost 5% of all capacity<\/li>\n<li>Wind supplied <b>18%<\/b> of the electricity used in Texas last month (November)<\/li>\n<li>The cost of electricity generated by wind reached an all-time low of <b>2.5 cents\/kWh<\/b> in 2014<\/li>\n<li>Last week&#8217;s budget agreement provided several years of stability for the wind Production Tax Credit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more from:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.awea.org\/MediaCenter\/pressrelease.aspx?ItemNumber=8255\">American Wind Energy Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li>ThinkProgress &#8211; <a  target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/climate\/2015\/12\/23\/3734678\/wind-energy-reaches-new-record\/\">Wind Energy Reaches Record Production<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/newscenter.lbl.gov\/2015\/08\/10\/study-finds-that-the-price-of-wind-energy-in-the-united-states-is-at-an-all-time-low-averaging-under-2-5%C2%A2kwh\/\">Price of Wind in US is at an all-time low<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so much consumer interest in Solar PV, another, much larger source of new renewable energy in the US &#8211; wind power &#8211; doesn&#8217;t get much attention. The attention wind does get in the media tends toward the negative &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wind","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577950"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586136,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577950\/revisions\/586136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}