For many years the focus of both the authorities and environmentalists around the world confined to solar energy — it made a major bet supporters of renewable energy. Solar panels are used literally everywhere, and economists are in full blow a steady decrease in the cost of such modules.
Against this background, wind power long enough to feel the “poor cousin”. However, in recent years, it clearly began to emerge from the shadow of solar energy. It happened at a time when economists realized: solar modules provide power only during the day, and wind turbines — all day.
The first is to understand the Europeans. And to date, forcing the wind turbines are all suitable fields, began to create huge wind farms offshore. As a result, Germany, for example, even there was an unexpected problem on a windy day she just nowhere to put such amount of electricity which is produced by its wind farms.
And in Scotland, the world wildlife Fund, through research, found that in particularly windy weather, the wind farm produced 106% of daily needs of the country’s electricity. This situation was recorded, in particular, on 7 August, said information resource OilPrice.
Meanwhile, in the US realize the benefits of wind energy came much later. Probably because America is always enough sun, especially the southern States. But now, when Northern territory, looking at the success of California and Nevada in the renewable energy sector, decided to follow their example, windmills were in great demand in the United States.
Currently off the coast of Rhode island built the country’s first offshore wind. After commissioning it will produce 30 MW, supplying electricity to about 17 thousand houses. Such a wind farm built in Massachusetts.
And energy company American Electric Power all began very actively to expand its wind energy portfolio. AEP has already implemented a number of projects that will be completed in late 2018 and will have a total capacity of 100 MW.
WPP companies will be located in Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. And similar interest in environmentally friendly energy from the company, which throughout its history has produced electricity from coal, says that wind power is not in words, but in fact is economically justified.
