{"id":22375,"date":"2014-12-30T13:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=22375"},"modified":"2014-12-30T13:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T19:45:36","slug":"oklahoma-among-states-driving-current-future-growth-in-u-s-wind-power-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2014\/12\/30\/oklahoma-among-states-driving-current-future-growth-in-u-s-wind-power-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Among States Driving Current, Future Growth in U.S. Wind Power Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. is expected to have added about 5 gigawatts of wind-generated electricity capacity in 2014, estimates from the federal Energy Information Agency<\/a> show. Officials expect even more growth \u2014 up to an additional 11 GW \u2014 in 2015, with most of the added capacity coming from five states: Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota.<\/p>

Oklahoma offers tax incentives for wind energy<\/a> developers, the use of which has grown in recent years and drawn the scrutiny<\/a> of state lawmakers. But Secretary of Energy and Environment Michael Teague tells<\/a> The Journal Record<\/em>‘s Sarah Terry-Cobo that Oklahoma’s installations “are more closely tied to federal production tax rates of 2.3 cents per kilowatt-hour”:<\/p>\n

\u201cFor us it is a business decision,\u201d Teague said. \u201cWe want wind because it is good for our utilities and electricity rates. It\u2019s good for rural counties because of the ad-valorem taxes generated.\u201d<\/p>

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Oklahoma will see a jump in total generating capacity by the spring of 2015, Teague said. The state has 3,100 megawatts of wind power capacity, and it is expected to grow by 2,100 MW by the spring. Electricity from wind farms makes up 15 percent of all power in the state.<\/p>

\u201cWhether it is wind, gas or coal, the conversation needs to start at the cost of our electricity rates,\u201d Teague said. \u201cNot just for the cost of living, but to promote business and economic development.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. is expected to have added about 5 gigawatts of wind-generated electricity capacity in 2014, estimates from the federal Energy Information Agency show. Officials expect even more growth \u2014 up to an additional 11 GW \u2014 in 2015, with most of the added capacity coming from five states: Oklahoma, Texas, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490],"tags":[155,144],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22375"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22382,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22375\/revisions\/22382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}