The strong winds spurred production from wind turbines and helped supply 130% of the country's electricity demand from midnight to midnight last Sunday. The excess power was sold abroad.
A new report shows there was more biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar and wind capacity installed on the US grid in April 2019 than plants set up to burn the fossil fuel.
China, US, Germany, India, Spain, UK, France, Brazil, Canada and Italy currently have the highest capacity of wind energy.
The renewable energy industry created more than 500,000 new jobs globally in 2017, a 5.3 per cent increase from 2016, according to the latest figures released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).
Three offshore wind plants will be constructed in the North Sea and three in the Baltic Sea between 2021 and 2025.
The country’s monthly clean energy production exceeded demand, according to a report.
Oklahoma will soon be home to the largest wind farm in the US, the Wind Catcher project, which will have a capacity of 2,000-MW.
From January to June Germany produced a record 35 percent of its electricity from renewable energy. But the country is still struggling with heating and transportation.
In a world that's hungry for energy but increasingly wary of the damage that generating power can do, solar might just be the answer: clean energy that's cheap and virtually endless.
