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Before the stimulus money,\u00a0the wind industry predicted that wind installation in 2009 would actually fall by as much as 50 percent. Denise Bode, CEO of the AWEA,\u00a0says the stimulus money changed that and helped turn around an expected steep decline into a nearly 40 percent growth. She tells the New York Times’s DealBook<\/a>:<\/p>\n The U.S. wind industry shattered all installation records in 2009, and this was directly attributable to the lifeline that was provided by the stimulus package.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Wind-rich Texas added 2,292 megawatts of wind generation last year, followed by Indiana, which added 905 megawatts of new capacity. A lot of those new megawatts, came from the 400-megawatt Fowler Ridge wind farm, in Indiana\u2019s Benton County, which came online this year<\/a>.\u00a0 Iowa, in third place, added 879 megawatts<\/a> of new capacity.<\/p>\n Data Source: American Wind Energy Association<\/span><\/p>\n A poor economy and a dried-up credit market have not slowed the pace of construction of wind farms in 2009.\u00a0 According\u00a0to figures released today by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the U.S. wind industry grew by 39 percent in 2009, adding\u00a09,922 megawatts of new capacity last year, bringing total U.S. wind-powered generation to over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_49FtSCi5iT8\/SwK4aa5gSAI\/AAAAAAAABZo\/kuKjNAzuVTM\/s320\/Fowler+Ridge+Wind+Farm.png\")
A poor economy and a dried-up credit market have not slowed the pace of construction of wind farms in 2009.\u00a0 According\u00a0to figures released<\/a> today by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), the U.S. wind industry grew by 39 percent in 2009, adding\u00a09,922 megawatts of new capacity last year, bringing total U.S. wind-powered generation to over 35,000 megawatts.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Picture-32.png\" "\\"Picture")
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