Sentences with phrase «wind additions»

Wind additions in the first half of 2014 were more than double the level in the first half of 2013.

Texas added the most wind capacity (42 % of total wind additions), followed by Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa, and North Dakota.

Most of these gains were driven by record - level wind additions of 66 GW and solar PV additions of 49 GW.

Most wind additions are found in the Plains region between the Dakotas and Minnesota, south to Texas and eastern New Mexico.

Prior to that, wind additions came to a virtual stop in 2013 and through the first half of 2014 following the expiration, delayed renewal, and modification of the federal renewable energy production tax credit.

Uncertainty surrounding the extensions and modifications of the federal production tax credit (PTC) over the past several years led to large fluctuations in annual wind additions.

Solar PV installations nearly matched those of hydropower and, for the first time, outpaced wind additions.

This year 2008 7.6 GW was installed in the current upward growth of the wind industry so we are practically meeting our future need already just with wind additions.

The significant slowdown in wind additions in 2013 mirrored the national trend, which reflected the lapse of the federal production tax credit (PTC) at the end of 2012.

In China, which accounted for about half the wind additions and 40 % of all renewable capacity increases, two wind turbines were installed every hour in 2015.

China accounted for about 40 percent of total renewable capacity installed in 2015 and about half of all the wind additions.

Without the Clean Power Plan, EIA projects fewer coal retirements, as well as fewer natural gas, solar, and wind additions.

Wind additions are largely found in the Plains states, with nearly 8.4 GW, or 85 % of total wind additions, found between North Dakota and Minnesota in the north, to Texas and New Mexico in the south.

Wind additions (675 MW) were more than double the amount added in the same period last year (329 MW) and were concentrated in California, Nebraska, Michigan, and Minnesota.