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    in 2022, wind power is the largest source of electricity generation in Iowa. In 2020, over 34 billion kWh of electrical energy was generated by wind power...
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    from wind power is Iowa, at over 57% of total energy production. North Dakota has the most per capita wind generation. The Alta Wind Energy Center in California...
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    the installation of wind power. It was ranked 4th overall for wind power electrical generation at the end of 2016 behind Texas, Iowa, and Oklahoma. As of...
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    Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...
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  • wind turbines, it was the largest wind farm in Iowa when built. Iowa portal Weather portal Renewable energy portal Wind power in Iowa Wind power in Wyoming...
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    of power producers used in hybrid power are photovoltaics, wind turbines, and various types of engine-generators – e.g. diesel gen-sets. Hybrid power plants...
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    Solar power in Iowa is limited but growing, with 137 megawatts (MW) installed by the end of 2019 and 27 MW installed during that year, ranking the state...
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  • power stations in the U.S. state of Iowa, sorted by type and name. In 2021, Iowa had a total summer capacity of 21,771 MW through all of its power plants...
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    installed at the end of the year. Iowa ranked first of U.S. states in percentage of total power generated by wind and second in wind generating capacity behind...
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    Denmark was a pioneer in developing commercial wind power during the 1970s, and today a substantial share of the wind turbines around the world are produced...
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    Wind power in Illinois provided nearly 10% of the state's generated electrical power in 2020 powering 1,231,900 homes. At the end of 2020, Illinois had...
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    environmental impact of electricity generation from wind power is minor when compared to that of fossil fuel power. Wind turbines have some of the lowest global warming...
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    A wind farm or wind park, also called a wind power station or wind power plant, is a group of wind turbines in the same location used to produce electricity...
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    headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, providing power in Iowa and Wisconsin. Interstate Power and Light Company (IPL) expanded greatly in the late 1920s...
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    Renewable energy portal List of onshore wind farms List of wind farms in the United States Wind power in Iowa EDP Renewables Signs 115-MW PPA with TVA...
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    Enron (category Companies based in Houston)
    potential customers in California starting in 1998. Enron Energy also began to sell natural gas to customers in Ohio and wind power in Iowa. However, the company...
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  • Wind power in Indiana was limited to a few small water-pumping windmills on farms until 2008 with construction of Indiana's first utility-scale wind power...
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    August 10–11, 2020, primarily eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. It caused high winds and spawned an outbreak of weak tornadoes. Some...
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  • MidAmerican Energy Company (category Companies based in Des Moines, Iowa)
    supply power to Facebook, Microsoft and Google datacenters in Iowa from Wind XI. In May 2018, MidAmerican Energy announced a new large-scale wind energy...
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    Wind power in Wisconsin started in 1990 with the installation of the Lincoln Turbines wind farm, and contributes to the state's renewable portfolio standard...
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  • its power plants, and in 2022 Iowa had a net generation of 71,316 gigawatt-hours. The corresponding electrical energy generation mix was 62.4% wind, 25...
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    concerning preliminary peak wind speed determinations based on Doppler On Wheels (DOW) data obtained in the Greenfield, Iowa tornado of 21 May 2024" (PDF)...
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  • The Intrepid Wind Farm consists of 107 wind turbines, located in Sac and Buena Vista counties in north-west Iowa, has a generating capacity of 160.5 megawatts...
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    Wind power in Missouri has an installed capacity of 959 MW from 499 turbines, as of 2016. This provided 1.29% of the state's electricity production. Missouri's...
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  • energy portal Wind power in Iowa List of wind farms in the United States "MidAmerican begins construction on Iowa's largest wind project". Power Engineering...
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    systems needed to capture the wind's energy, point the turbine into the wind, convert mechanical rotation into electrical power, and other systems to start...
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  • A. was formed in 2017 in a merger of Siemens' Wind Power division with Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, S.A.; it is a Spanish-German wind engineering company...
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    completes wind projects in Iowa | Economy". Qctimes.com. December 31, 2012. Retrieved February 28, 2017. "Mortenson will build 750 MW of wind power in Wyoming"...
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  • Indiana's first utility-scale wind power facility, Goodland (phase I) with a nameplate capacity of 130 MW. Wind power in Iowa – has nearly 4,400 MW of capacity...
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  • Rock Island Clean Line (category Electric power stubs)
    electrical power from wind energy dense states in the Midwestern United States (Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota) to the energy markets in the Chicago...
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