Electricity generated by windmills has begun to out-power both coal and nuclear plants. The 2000 gigawatts of electricity generated in the US last Tuesday surpassed all sources other than natural gas. Last year, wind power was the fourth leading source behind gas, nuclear, and coal.
With more than 100 planned offshore- and onshore-wind projects in the pipeline, President Joe Biden's administration is trying to make up the lost ground in the wind-power game. The administration set a goal to deploy 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy alone.
The EIA projects the US will bring another 7.6 gigawatts of utility-scale wind online this year, alongside 21.5 gigawatts of utility-scale solar power. Just last month, for example, the Traverse wind farm in Oklahoma brought close to a gigawatt of new energy online.
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that wind and solar have declined significantly in cost and are now economically viable alternatives to fossil fuels.
