WINDFORMATION: QUICK WIND FACTS

DID YOU KNOW...

… that on average, it takes only a few months for a wind turbine to recover the energy that was used to create it?

… that wind energy leaves no harmful emissions or pollutants in the environment?

… that wind energy is a renewable energy resource? The wind will never be used up.

… that the wind industry today provides more than 100,000 jobs worldwide?

… that on wind farms, wind turbines usually occupy less than 2% of the land, leaving the rest available for other uses?

… that almost every country has some areas with good wind resources?

… that a wind turbine is built tall enough (at least 100 feet off the ground) so that animals like cows, deer, elk, and horses aren’t harmed by the rotor?

… that wind power plant electricity generating costs have decreased by nearly 90% in the last twenty years?