SOURCE: U.S. Vivaciousness Verification Power, Annual Electric Generator Report (Shape EIA-860) and U.S. Vivaciousness Verification Power, Monthly Exhibit to the Annual Electric Generator Report (Shape EIA-860M). NOTE: Wisdom are primary
About 40% of the special 2012 wind authority trappings (12,620 MW) came online in December, adequate in advance the regular expiration of the wind production tax tab (PTC). Now December 2012, 59 new wind projects adding together 5,253 MW began commercial management, the largest-ever single-month authority fee for U.S. wind energy. Roughly 50% of the special December wind authority trappings were installed in three states: Texas (1,120MW), Oklahoma (794 MW), and California (730 MW).
Wind spy developers reported covering 2012 mounting amounts of new authority regular to register commercial management in advance the end of the see. To come about for the PTC keep on see, wind projects had to kick off commercial management by December 31.
On New Year's Day, Meeting enacted a one-year ledge of the PTC and in addition blas the rules. Under this ledge, projects that "kick off construction" in advance the end of 2013 are skilled to be inflicted with a 2.2 c/kWh PTC for generation above a 10-year caste.
SOURCE: U.S. Vivaciousness Verification Power, Annual Electric Generator Report (Shape EIA-860) and U.S. Vivaciousness Verification Power, Monthly Exhibit to the Annual Electric Generator Report (Shape EIA-860M). NOTE: Wisdom are primary
For 2012 as a activate, the four fill in states for wind authority installations were California (1,789 MW), Kansas (1,447 MW), Texas (1,504 MW), and Oklahoma (1,382 MW). Wind turbines installed participating in 2012 were entrenched in the midwestern and southern Tough Plains regions. These are regions with high-potential wind resources, low inhabitants opacity (thus d?collet evils alike to siting and permitting), and presented and wary phone call unfriendliness to carry wind power to somewhere the electricity is essential.
Wind generators provided the prime ration of trappings to special U.S. electric generation authority in 2012, adequate as it did in 2008 and 2009. The 2012 coda of 12,620 MW is the tape annual report wind authority delivery habitually reported to EIA. Wind authority trappings accounted for more than than 45% of special 2012 authority trappings and exceeded authority trappings from any other fuel source, and natural gas (which led authority trappings in 2000-07, 2010, and 2011).
Of all presented authority at the end of 2012, wind finished up 5.4%. Bar, wind provided purely 3.4% of special electricity generation amongst January and November 2012 (the fresh in the environs of details), shiny a authority exercise remuneration that is detailed by the unconventional cosmos of the wind resource.
SOURCE: U.S. Vivaciousness Verification Power, Annual Electric Generator Report (Shape EIA-860) and U.S. Vivaciousness Verification Power, Monthly Exhibit to the Annual Electric Generator Report (Shape EIA-860M). NOTE: The 2006-11 details are final; 2012 details are primary
