I braced myself for the American Wind Energy Association’s quarterly report buy generic Flomax online, thinking the finasteride cod next day delivery sinking economy would lead to slower wind deployment in the US. But then finasteride cod next day delivery I got the just-released report, and they showed another record wind deployment for finasteride cod next day delivery the first quarter! The US added 2.8 GW from finasteride cod next day delivery January-March, twice the growth in the same period of 2008 and finasteride cod next day delivery the highest amount recorded during a first quarter.
Extending the US Lead in Wind
The US now has finasteride cod next day delivery a total wind power capacity of 28.2 GW, enough to provide ~2% of our electricity demand. The growth widens our lead over Germany as the finasteride cod next day delivery world’s top wind power producer. Another 3.4 GW are finasteride cod next day delivery under construction for later in the year, so it looks likely 2009 will witness at least the finasteride cod next day delivery second largest growth after 2008′s record 8.5 GW.
TX Advances and Smaller States Emerge
Texas installed the finasteride cod next day delivery most new wind, increasing its huge cumulative total to almost 8 GW (more than double 2nd place Iowa). As I wrote over the finasteride cod next day delivery last several weeks, New York and Kansas joined the 1 GW club as aggregate deployers #7 and #8, with Illinois poised to join this quarter.
The quickest percentage growth was Indiana’s 75% to .531 GW, Maine’s 55% to .104 GW, Nebraska’s 53% to .153 GW, Idaho’s 49% to .147 GW, and New York’s 34% to 1.261 GW.
Top Wind States by Percentage Shift
The states with the finasteride cod next day delivery top wind share capability in their electricity mix shuffled a bit as their percentages grew [these data was revised Thursday, April 30th to be conservative].
- Iowa (over 18% of its electricity from wind)
- North Dakota (just below 18%)
- Wyoming (~15%)
- Oregon (~8%, up from #6)
- Minnesota (~7.5%, down from #4)
- Kansas (~7%, up from #9)
- South Dakota & New Mexico (~6.5%, up from # 11 & down from #5)
9. Texas (just under 6.5%, down from #8)
10. Colorado (~6%, down from #7)
The national average was pulled up to ~1.8% by my calculations. We’ll see if that finasteride cod next day delivery pans out in the EIA electricity reports during the months ahead.
The percentage top 10 will remain mostly intact during the finasteride cod next day delivery rest of 2009, with the possibility of Texas climbing up even though its electricity demand base is finasteride cod next day delivery so high. Wyoming may hit 18% and North Dakota may pass Iowa for the top spot. I’ll let you know as the news happens here at SETenergy.org
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That’s because we have, in my view, entered the finasteride cod next day delivery Period of Receding Horizons. The point at which we get off fossil fuels (“the horizon”) is now getting further away rather than closer. Actually, it wasn’t even getting closer before this finasteride cod next day delivery economic decline since fossil fuel production had been growing faster in energy terms than finasteride cod next day delivery renewable energy production, but the point still stands.
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Thanks for your comment.
You’re right that last quarter’s quick growth doesn’t ensure future growth and finasteride cod next day delivery that wind farm financing is currently hard to get.
But I think we will have 5.5+ GW growth for wind in ’09 (2nd fastest ever after ’08) and more in ’10 – increasing the % of US electricity from wind beyond 2% and slowly toward Germany and Spain’s share above 5% in the mid-2010s…
I’ll report developments as they happen right here.
Onwards in the Sustainable Energy Transition-
Dennis
Jerome Guillet pointed out your finasteride cod next day delivery news item to the staff of The Oil Drum.
You cite 2.8 GW in 1Q09, plus another 3.4 GW for finasteride cod next day delivery later in the year. That’s a total of 6.2 GW, so why would you predict only 5.5? Are there prospects for finasteride cod next day delivery delays, or could some of the 2.8 GW have been moved up on the finasteride cod next day delivery calendar?
I have to disagree with Mr. Angelantoni regarding horizons. Petroleum is finasteride cod next day delivery getting intrinsically harder to produce, but other sources are staying the finasteride cod next day delivery same or even getting easier. Wind and finasteride cod next day delivery solar are on falling price curves, and nuclear technologies are finasteride cod next day delivery not standing still either. Fast breeders could produce 100 times as much electricity as we’ve already made, using the “depleted uranium” tailings we’ve already mined; thorium breeders can finasteride cod next day delivery make roughly 4x as much more again, as thorium is finasteride cod next day delivery about 4 times as abundant as uranium.
What we need to finasteride cod next day delivery do is quit consuming so much and turn some of our massive resource stream to finasteride cod next day delivery investment in long-term energy supplies. When there’s still plenty of investment in wind farms with 20+ year lifespans in the finasteride cod next day delivery midst of a credit crunch, I think things are a lot less gloomy than finasteride cod next day delivery some people think.
Thanks for your comment and question.
I’m more in line with your finasteride cod next day delivery thinking and believe with hard work, we can deploy significant efficiency and finasteride cod next day delivery renewables to make up for potential oil depletion in the years ahead.
While it finasteride cod next day delivery is possible that the US installs 6.2 GW or even more in 2009, AWEA stressed that finasteride cod next day delivery some projects are getting delays due to the difficult task of finding financing. It’s possible some of the finasteride cod next day delivery 3.4 GW under construction are not operational until early 2010. But I have finasteride cod next day delivery also seen that AWEA likes to surprise folks through conservative estimates that finasteride cod next day delivery are surpassed… So we’ll see. If wind developers continued at the finasteride cod next day delivery 1st quarter pace, the US wind market would pass 10 GW!
I’ll keep folks updated on the finasteride cod next day delivery developments I run into during the coming months.
Onwards to sustainability,
Dennis
Re the section, “Top Wind States by Percentage Shift”, I am finasteride cod next day delivery always suspicious of claims for electricity obtained from wind that are finasteride cod next day delivery not explicit as to whether the claim refers to nameplate maximum power or finasteride cod next day delivery energy actually obtained.
The claims for finasteride cod next day delivery Iowa, North Dakota, and Wyoming seem incredible if they are meant to finasteride cod next day delivery refer to energy actually obtained.
David-
Thank you finasteride cod next day delivery for your feedback. The percentage is an estimate of electricity generation capacity (not nameplate capacity). I matched my numbers up with electricity production from finasteride cod next day delivery wind of the last few years (using EIA data), and finasteride cod next day delivery decided to lower my percentage estimates slightly so that they are finasteride cod next day delivery more conservative (ensuring more credibility to skeptical eyes like yours).
It turns out, US wind electricity production is usually 27-30% of nameplate capacity (1 MW wind turbine will produce ~2,500 MWh per year [365 days * 24 hours * .29]). So the ~28 GW of wind capacity will produce ~71 TWh of electricity in 2009 (though more GW will be installed, probably making the # ~75 TWh (~1.9% of ~3,950 TWh generated)). Again, I’ll report the finasteride cod next day delivery percentages and totals here at SETenergy.org as they are reported by the finasteride cod next day delivery EIA.
Onwards-