Did you know...?

• Wind energy will generate over 17 billion kilowatt-hours in the U.S. in 2005, enough electricity to power 1.6 million homes.

• Each wind turbine provides farm or ranch income annually - $2,000-4,000 per megawatt - and uses only 2-5% of the land for turbines and access roads.
  
  
• Each megawatt (MW) of wind energy capacity installed in the U.S. provides 2.5-3 job-years of employment.
  
  
• In 2006, U.S. wind farms will be saving over 0.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.
  
  
• To generate the same amount of electricity as a single 1-megawatt (MW) wind turbine, a traditional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant requires, on average, withdrawing about 60 million gallons of water per year from a stream or river.
  
  
• To generate the same amount of electricity as today's U.S. wind turbine fleet (6,740 MW) would require burning 9 million tons of coal (a line of 10-ton trucks 3,437 miles long, from Seattle to Miami) or 28 million barrels of oil each year.
  
  

• Wind energy could provide 6% of our nation's electricity, or about the same as hydropower, by 2020.
  
  

• Up to 2,500 megawatts (MW) of new wind energy capacity will be installed in 2005.
  
  
• Wind energy installations in 2005 will result in a $2-3 billion investment in our economy.
  
  
• A New York study found that if wind energy supplied 10% (3,300 MW) of the state's peak electricity demand, 65% of the energy it displaced would come from natural gas, 15% from coal, 10% from oil, and 10% from electricity imports.
  
  
• As many as 215,000 new jobs would be created by adding 50,000 MW of new wind installations in the U.S. - a $50 billion investment that could provide electricity for as many as 15 million homes with 39 million people.