iowa ranks seventh in the country in wind energy production.
iowa ranks seventh in the country in wind energy production.
where does iowa rank in wind energy production?
seventh in the country
average wind speeds are not consistent from month to month. wind maps show wind speeds are on average strongest from november through april, peaking in march. august is the month with the weakest average wind speeds. on a daily cycle, there is a slight rise in average wind speeds in the afternoon, from 1 to 6 p.m. estimates by the national renewable energy laboratory (nrel) indicate iowa has potentially 570,700 megawatts of wind power using large turbines mounted on 80 meter towers. iowa ranks seventh in the country in terms of wind energy generation potential due to the strong average wind speeds in the midsection of the u.s. the iowa environmental mesonet distributes current weather and wind conditions from approximately 450 monitoring stations across iowa, providing data for modelling and predicting wind power.
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ohio has 532 companies in the wind energy supply chain, and trails only california in industrial potential. the state is currently #27 in wind energy production. in 2006, revenues from wind energy production totaled $250 million, creating 1,700 jobs. through 2011, an estimated 7500 employment positions were estimated to be wind-related. during the second half of 2011, ohio ranked #5 in the nation in new wind energy production at 56.6 mw.
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