Study: Tall wind turbines could make more power (Denver)
Wind turbines perched 262 feet above Colorado’s plains could generate up to 387.2 gigawatts of energy if they were built, a new study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden says.
That’s more than three times the 96 gigawatts the state estimates.
Across the nation, wind energy could generate nearly 37 million gigawatt-hours, three times what previous studies have estimated, according to the American Wind Energy Association. One gigawatt equals 1,000 megawatts.
Read the full report in the Denver Business Journal.
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