Federal government delivers $100 million to push Wind West project ahead - CTV News

U. S. wind power has more than tripled in the past decade to become the largest source of renewable power in the country. The U. S. Department of Energy provides this data, updated annually, to track trends in wind technology, cost, and performance through the end of 2019. These data are from a combination of publicly available, confidential, and proprietary sources. It provides unbiased, independent, public reporting of the current state of the industry, and insight into multiyear trends.2019 Wind Technology Data2019 Distributed Wind Data2019 Offshore Wind Data U. S. wind power additions continued at a strong pace in 2019, with over 9,000 megawatts (MW) of new capacity added, bringing total U. S. capacity to 105.6 gigawatts (GW). Wind power represented the second-largest source of U. S. electric-generating capacity additions in 2019, behind solar. Improvements in the cost and performance of wind power technologies have also driven wind capacity additions, yielding low-priced wind energy for utility, corporate, and other power purchasers.